Did you find hardwood under the linoleum in the kitchen? Your floors turned out beautiful. I love your doors too. Did you have much to do to the doors to refinish them? Kitchen is great. The navy wall in one of the last images-what room is that? Did you keep the original navy wall? Wonderful update to a charming house.

This is one of the best transformations I have seen! Looks like brand new custom cabinets with the expensive upgrade to the paint with a hand glazed or highlight on the door detail. I can't even believe the budget! DIYers, now here is your textbook example...this is how it's done people! Oh and you will get a big kick out of this....I didn't read your original comments at first because I just couldn't wait to start looking through all the amazing pictures. So when I got to one that shows the electric fireplace (not turned on), I thought, "Oh what a fabulous pet bed nook all trimmed out for a Royal pooch" LOL!!! The fireplace is an awesome idea! But hey, this could've worked too huh? :-D

This is one nice rental. We have a asymmetrical wall with a fireplace and a surround. My DH and I go round and round. I like the traditional surround and he does not. It turns out our fireplace is low clearance. What we both do not like is the 12 inch square around it. If a mantle is placed, it has to be a certain depth and height. Marble was there, wish our black tile was not there. We have considered placing the marble porcelain tile from the bath. We will have to make a decision soon cuz new flooring in the 1st level.

Chiming in as an MCM enthusiast to say that I love how you integrated the lights and furniture into a one-story to bring make that mid-century minimalism homey and cozy and a sight for sore eyes. I think that is the trick, or the conundrum. Also along with @Marcia B, we are engaged in a renovation, but at the tail end of one instead of the start, of a late fifties/early sixties home, in this case a split level in a New England city neighborhood. No backing up onto a wooded area, which must be fantastic, but we do have a few mature trees on our small lot (sidenote on "visitors": deer and coyote within a quarter mile, and bands of turkeys are sighted every few days on our streets). Your post has reminded me to try to gather together before and after pics once my head clears. Another side note: my grandfather and grandmothers MCM items were part of the furniture of my experience as a child, and my mother continued the tradition (inheriting and then restoring grandpa's Eames chair, the one you have in the photo). I got to "babysit" that chair for a few years before she bought her condo so my small children got to experience that chair as I did). 1956 Christmas photo (my mother's family), offered here to show you the curtain fabric!