In its own suburban way, that's what the PO did to this house, magnaverde. We've been spending a lot of time taking out white colonial Home Depot molding and putting in small simple molding (painted the same color as the room), taking out 6 panel fake wood hollowcore doors and replacing them with solid core slab doors or fir single-lite pocket doors...one eyesore I haven't been able to fix yet is in the double -height foyer where a massive foyer fixture once hung, the PO put a cr*ppy white HD fan with shiny fake brass trim...UGH UGH UGH. I actually found a rather tasteful 70s Fredrick Ramond fixture in LN condition at a Habitat store, which would be much closer to what should show in that tall window above the door, but it's *difficult* to get up there and change the fixture out. We've given away so much colonial molding and use the doors for work surfaces. This is no masterpiece house, but it felt like it was being suffocated in faux-colonial trim and we've resimplified it so it could be itself again. Which will probably go completely unappreciated in this neighborhood, but it passed the time. palimpsest, if you have a feeling that you shouldn't post, I completely respect that. Don't want to jinx anything. We'll just have to wait until you have found something and then settled on it and then we can celebrate with you! I have faith that you can do anything you want and will make whichever house (and cash IS king right now, so I understand the drive to underspend) into a photogenic and soul-nourishing home.

The tiles are different. The floor tile it too big to be used in the shower and there are several mosaic options from that company. I never saw the one I picked in the grey color way until my order showed up. I was a little nervous, but I love it! Tile shopping...my floor tile is on top and the shower tile, in black, is on the left. Other styles I considered to give you a sense of what this company does. Their mosaics are really interesting! When the order came in...

Do you have another tub in the house? If so I would remove the tub in favor of adding a walk in shower unless you use the tub very often. As to barn doors, as a child in the 70s I lived in a house with track doors, not pocket for the track was not between the walls, so although very popular now with the barn hardware the idea is well over forty years old and they are often financially, structurally and functionally the best solution. I had French doors in a sunroom but the took up to much wall and floor space to function well so we bought track hardware for under 200 bucks and used the orginal style doors built a header over the track on the room side and everyone thinks they are orginal pocket doors to our 1920s house not barn doors. My barn doors are pictured here the project cost less than 300 dollars.Sorry tree is still up but barn doors need not be the style we always see in blogs or hgtv... They can be altered to look like pocket doors with out needing to reframe, move electrics or pay thousands for.

Your house has a bit of a mish mash of styles and finishes. You may need to pick what style you think works best for your house overall, and chip away at things. I don’t care for your floors, but they are probably ideal for a family with young children who are entering “the age of destruction.” 😆 Even well behaved kids can be hard on a house. But coming up with an overall plan before tackling small projects will save money in the long run.