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Kiran’s Room

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This is what the back room looked like when we bought the house. We were originally planning on using this room as a tv room/office. The floors were covered in beige bleach stained carpet. However, compared to the rest of the house this room needed very little work. Unfortunately the wood in this room was completely damaged so we had to install new floors. We had someone install wood planks and stained them a natural color to blend with the floors in the rest of the house.


The back room was used as a storage room during the renovations in the rest of the house.

The back room after the new wood floors were installed.

This is what the back room looks like now. It is now Kiran’s bedroom.


The windows in this room face south and west and the room is always filled with light. I love hanging out in this room.

Lanterns and garlands over Kiran’s bed.

Kiran playing in his room.

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Welcome to my Blog chronicling the renovation of our row house in Philadelphia. In 2007, we bought a 1600 square foot row home in an exciting area of Philadelphia. The house was built in 1880. When we first saw the house the walls were swathed in layers upon layers of wallpaper; and the pine wood floors were covered in thick black glue, linoleum and red carpets! The plaster walls were crumbling but other than that the house was structurally sound. We fell in love with the layout of the house, the wonderful curved plaster walls on the second floor and the fact that nothing in the house was straight. The house was built at an angle on an angled lot and was just so unique and perfect for us.

We closed on the house at the end of April 2007. We then spent the next several months stripping the wall paper, salvaging the plaster walls that we could, erecting new walls and painting. It was a lot of work but finally the house was in move-in condition. We moved into the house at the end of August 2007. Since then we have been working on the house as much as we can. In April 2008 we had our beautiful baby boy Kiran. Since then we have pretty much slowed down on the renovations. However, we have started again with gusto.

In this blog I will document our progress in restoring our quirky house into what she (yes it is a she) was meant to be.