Hi Friends!
Thank you for stopping by! I’m an interior designer in upstate NY, but our team also does amazing transformations from kitchen cabinet panting to the details in this flip. Like you’ll see in this post, we do much more than just painting. We bought this old trolley station stop at the end of 2022, filled it, and sold it at the end of 2023. We’ve shown most of the interior makeovers on the blog already for this trolley house flip, but I wanted to stop and show you the exterior work as well.
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Here’s the exterior of the trolley house before any work was done:
The whole front section of the house (the section without the porch) needed to be ripped off and replaced because the supports were completely rotten, and the ceiling height wasn’t even close to code. We fell through the floor walking through it at closing, and a 6 foot door wouldn’t even fit in the ceiling height of the front room. We ripped it off completely, had a frost barrier concrete wall installed for a foundation support, and then had the structure replaced. One last minute decisions that was a complete game changer for this house was the fact that we decided to peek the roof on the front to match the roof line of the rest of the house. It was originally flat. You can see that better here:
The original footprint staid the same, but the height on the front made it feels so much bigger!
The quote for redoing the porch came in so much higher than we anticipated so we were debating on removing both side portions of the porch to make it one straight porch along the back. We went back and forth on this decision quite a bit, but I really didn’t want to lose the original porch size because that’s so much of the house’s history. People would wait on this porch to catch a ride on the electric trolley car.
So we decided to do the porch work ourselves to keep it in budget and save it! John and our team did such a phenomenal job on this! We couldn’t be happier with how it turned out. Here’s what it looked like mid demo!
We also found out that this property needed a brand new septic… to the tune of almost 20k! Ouch! So while they were there doing the septic, we asked them to help us pull out the old shrubs and level the land. It made the yard so much nicer (not that you can tell in this photo).
We wanted to keep some of the windows, but they didn’t meet new code so we installed all new windows, but we were able to find the original door that went to the back porch and reinstalled it! So much better than the door that was on the porch area before!
Are you ready for the afters?
How about some side by side photos for comparison?
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Happy FunCycling Friends,
Sarah ;)
