Tenderfoot House Tour-Befores & Afters

Tenderfoot Hearth has gone through a lot of changes in the past three years.  Our house is a 1963 Cindarella or Storybook Ranch home.  This means it includes things like window boxes, shutters, diamond pane windows, and exposed rafters.  

Unfortunately, the former owner wanted to turn a Ranch into a Victorian.  The interior was dark and filled with very busy floral wallpaper & fussy lighting.  Pretty but not a good match for this house.  They also had no sense of color and simply used white and hunter green on the exterior.  Making things even darker. 

Obviously, we made some changes inside and out.  Here is the before of the front entrance.

Notice all the fake, overdone flowers.

And the after:

Yup, that's real plants there now.

Now you can actually see the beautiful paned glass in the door.  I painted the door a crisp green to match the planters.  I also painted the old bronze light and doorbell hammered silver.  Amazing what a difference it made.

Inside, we went from this:

To this:

And from this:

To this:

Next post, I'll show the other rooms and the major pool overhaul.  I think we're doing a good job bringing the house back to the 1960's where it belongs.