Photoshop Fun: Sprucing up a Single Family Home

Johnson Street House Before

Hello! I am at it again, and this time, I found my project in a small, and extremely lackluster home in my neighborhood.  HJ and I were taking a walk yesterday, and we came upon this lonely detached row home. Most of the properties on this street are very quaint and cozy. Not only is it one of the more “plain” homes on the block, it is also for sale. So, I decided to spruce her up, just in case someone was hesitant to buy, and needed a little inspiration of her potential!

Johnson Street House Before

Johnson Street House Fixed

From well…to wow! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! When can I move in?

Photoshop Fun: Recluse Revival

Recluse Original

I’m back at it again, and this time I am making over a sweet historical home that needs some love. The poor place is always dark, except for one light upstairs. Everytime we go by, I like to yell out, “Recluse! Recluse!” (not one of my finer moments…) I just wish the occupant would come out and revive this gem! OK, here we go!

Recluse Original

Recluse Fixed

 

I just love this!! It may be one of my favorite yet! I turned it into more of a craftsman style home with the wooden door and matching windowboxes. I tried to coordinate the plants and make them full and green, like a leafy garden. So pretty 🙂 Now, I’ll be dreaming about this one for a while!

I’ll update tomorrow with my outfits for the rest of last week!

Photoshop Fun: Making a House a Home

Old Rittenhouse House

Sometimes on Sundays when HJ is footballing away, I like to play on Photoshop and surprise him with little virtual makeovers when he gets home!

Today, I was working on the photo of the beautiful old building in a park right near our apartment. We like to take walks nearby, and every time we pass it, I always imagine brining it back to life. The banner hanging on the windows says it can be rented for business only, but I think it would make a much better colonial home. What do you think?

Old Rittenhouse House

Old Rittenhouse House Home

 

If you want to check out more Photoshop Fun, check out these two posts here and here!

Photoshop Fun: I Hate My Kitchen!

Do you have this problem too?! Because TTC is a rental, we are not allowed to touch anything in the kitchen. We could paint, but I think it would only emphasize the horrible-ness of it all 😦 In blogland, I came across Diana from Our Vintage Home Love. Her family has the most beautiful kitchen:

The colors are so soothing and rich, but also light and airy, and what I like most about it, is the fact that it looks doable. I feel like I could really recreate this space and live here, not just photograph it. It definitely feels like the heart of their home. In fact, their whole house is stunning, I’m super envious, but that just makes me want to fix my kitchen even more! So I have some more Photoshop fun for your viewing pleasure! But first, the nasty pics, (can you tell I’m procrastinating because I am so embarrassed?)

GAAAHHH! Please, Make the Ugliness Stop! But it doesn’t, it just keeps on comin’…

We cover it up so you can’t see it…

Uggh, look at those yellow brick floors hiding under that rug. Why does it look even worse in photographs??

So starting with the my before photo, I am using my old friend Photoshop to recreate Diana’s beautiful kitchen (below) in my unfortunate space.

Here she is with the pot rack:

And now with a wonderful farmhouse chandelier:

So?? Isn’t it torturous that we can’t fix it up like this?! Maybe one day…just keep $aving

Photoshop Fun: Bungalow Love

So HJ and I went out into the city last night. After a few Blue Moons, it was revealed to me, that HJ misses Connecticut and wants to get back sooner rather than later. Now, this was not really a revelation, I already pretty much knew this all along, but we go back and forth about where we want to live, city, suburb, Philadelphia, New England City…so I thought I’d hit up Trulia today (like I wasn’t going to be on there anyway…) and check out some houses in the Northeast. That’s where I found this little guy:

He is from New Haven, and he is around $130,000. He is so cute, with a great price to boot! But he just needed some help from Photoshop to make him even more charming. Look at him here, now that he is all spruced up!

How lovely! I used this picture for inspiration:

I don’t have the source for this, just a google image search for “cape cods”. But he looks SOOO much better! OK, now I have to go pick up HJ from “Man Day” and go get groceries. Grrr, that means it’s the end of the weekend. I can’t wait to see what he thinks when I show him the original one! He’ll flip, “Ehh, I don’t really like it, it looks like a grandma’s house…” And then the after!!! 🙂 And that is what I choose to do with my time . lol.

*Update: Hunky J loved it!! Yay! My work is complete ❤