Before and After Pictures of my latest project!

Two months ago my husband and I purchased the eye sore of our neighborhood. This house has sat vacate for two years, the windows were all broken, it has been vandalized, when I first walked through it I saw rats, lets just say it was horrible. BUT, we saw a vision. The house was built in 1914, and it sits on a 3 acre deserted Avocado Orchard. We set out to fix up the house back to its original state, rent it out, and then nurse all the Avocado Trees back to health. The back of the property is adjacent to our 3 acres, so we have easy access to the Avocado Field and the front of the property will be private for our new renter. Today it was officially done and we turned over the keys to our renter.






This is the house BEFORE

This is the house AFTER!

Here is a side view (you can see the broken windows boarded up here) and the weeds before they were cleaned. The weeds were so bad you couldn't even walk to the house.

Here is the side view now!

I did all the landscaping! I planted lots of roses, hydrangeas, foxgloves, gerbera daisies, geraniums, grass, etc. All the plants are purple or yellow in color with hints of pink and orange.

We tried to keep the inside of the house vintage looking. There was an old pot belly stove that was in the house when it was first built. Someone stole it when it was vacate so we hunted around and found one from the 1890's era. It was once in a train!

This is the original fireplace from when the house was built in 1914. You can tell years ago they used it for cooking. It is built for cooking and not for heating.
My husband and I accomplished a lot in only 2 months! Our neighbors have thanked us for taking this horrible eye sore and making it pretty again. All the avocado trees are coming back in fact I picked a huge basket and gave them out to some of the neighbors!