It’s hard to believe it was already 5 years ago that we flipped our first house. Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday.

Since we bought the home without it ever going on the market, we unfortunately don’t have any nicely staged listing photos comparable to the photos in our “after” tour – and the power was turned off when we did a lot of our before walkthroughs, so bear with us on the photo quality. Personally, I feel it really adds to the dramatic transformation but photo quality aside, you can still definitely get the idea of the rough shape it was in when we snagged her!

You’ll notice some random stuff throughout the house in these before photos – there was a fair amount of stuff left in the house from the previous tenant we had to deal with, in addition to the updates we wanted to do to the house itself. Among what was left, was a queen size mattress, a desk, a huge rolling box TV that was about as tall as we are and a shed in the backyard full of miscellaneous stuff (plus a bunch of other stuff).

While it wasn’t in totally awful shape, it definitely needed some love and work well beyond bringing it up to date.

If you haven’t already, check out the after tour here to see what we did to each space!