Inspired Remodeling & Tile | Sullivan & Terre Haute, Indiana & Surrounding areas | Peter Bales, Bathroom Remodeling & Tile Shower Installation Contractor – Ardee House is Finished- And It’s For Sale!

Off and on for the past year I’ve been working on whole-house renovation project in Inglewood. It has been a remarkable transformation that makes it hard to believe it’s the same house I started with! I’ll cover some of the different aspects of this project in future articles, but I wanted to get some of the photos posted and show it off a little.

So you can appreciate how far we’ve come, check out the before picture (left). It is so fun to see an older neglected home brought back to life again. In addition to managing the renovations, I mainly handled the framing and finishing work like tile and coordinated all the other contractors to handle electrical, plumbing, HVAC, drywall and painting. For the most part, it’s a new house.

THE DETAILS

1241 Ardee Ave, Nashville, TN 37216 / 1501 square feet / 3 bedrooms / 2 bath / Price $149,900 / Virtual Tour

For showings and more listing info call: Micah Phillips, Benchmark Realty, 615-513-7560, www.MicahPhillips.com

The kitchen saw some drastic changes as I moved the back door and removed the wall between the kitchen and dining room to open things up and help the flow of the house. The home now has a very open feel to it and would be great for entertaining friends and family.

The living room (above) spans the entire front of the home. It’s a large room with lots of possibilities for different reading nooks or entertainment corners. It also has a huge closet on one end to organize your stuff. I can’t take any credit for the staging here. For that I had some help from Elizabeth Chauncey (her website) who did a great job staging the living room for us. It makes you want to crawl into a chair and read a book.

The dining room is the center of the main floor, between the kitchen and living room. To the right in the photo (left) is the stairs heading upstairs where there are two more bedrooms. Part of the renovation was converting a couple rooms downstairs into a master suite, which meant adding a bathroom.

The master bathroom features a very large tile shower that I installed using the Kerdi waterproofing system. The large 18″ x 18″ tiles go to the ceiling and turned out great.

The rest of the master bathroom came together thanks to a couple great finds. I started with a beautiful vanity that has a cultured marble top that is often mistaken for granite. It’s great. The frame for the mirror was actually a large picture frame that I found in the attic when I was cleaning out the house. I had it set with a mirror and painted it to match the vanity.

I found the vanity lights on Ebay after much searching. They are actually a design by Robert Abbey that was sold by Crate & Barrel. They are perfect for what I was imagining for this space.

The guest bathroom was the original bathroom for the house. The only thing still remaining is the tub which is a large cast iron tub that will be great for a good soak. I had a little fun with tile in this room, mixing 12″ x 12″ squares with 12″ x 24″ rectangles. I guess that’s what happens when a tile guy renovates a house..

The vanity is from American Standard, but the mirror was another special find. It was hiding deep in the attic and actually seems to be older than the home. It was so cool that I had to get a new mirror for it, strip off the old paint and refinish it. It’s one of those pieces that really gives some character to a new space.

One of my favorite parts of any home is the screened-in porch. This home presented the prefect place to created a cozy screened-in living space just off the kitchen that I would surely use nearly year round if I lived here.

There aren’t many people that appreciate a basement like I do. Instead of it being an afterthought, I always try to make the basement as spectacular as the rest of the home. In this case, it has all been cleaned with extra lighting installed as well as the black plastic moisture barrier that covers the dirt floor as well as keeping tabs on the moisture. It’s a beautiful thing, not to mention all that additional storage if you need it.