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Full "after" tour of our Tudor revival fixer-upper house and all sources

  • 5.04.2026

My home was recently featured in a full tour on Homeworthy, and I've spent the past year finishing the last little projects in preparation... I'm so proud and happy to call it DONE and share it all on here! (At least inside. I’ll save the exterior for another post when everything is in bloom this summer.)

If you want to see where it all started, you can check out the full before tour HERE.

I bought this house in 2018, when Otto was a newborn, and I had more vision than time, more determination than budget, and no idea how many changes would happen in my life and how many times I would redo certain rooms.

Some spaces came mostly together quickly, others evolved over and over as I figured out my style, what works for our family, and what actually feels right in a 1937 Tudor revival home. 

Full before and after tour of our 1930s house and sources

You can see the original full before tour here, and all of my room renovation and reveal posts here.

Entryway

The entryway is tiny but I love having a fun wallpaper here, plus the door needed a fresh sand and stain! I shared the most recent historic-inspired wallpaper update here.

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Stanley Tudor Revived entry before


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  • Wallpaper: Sandberg Wallpaper
  • Bench: Vintage Ethan Allen
  • Paint color: Sherwin-Williams Alabaster

Living Room

I’ve redone this room a zillion times. It's huge (24'+ long, but skinny) and there's no good place for the TV, but we've made it work over the fireplace, and I finally decided two matching sofas was the way to go.

I shared the most recent version HERE.

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Dining Room

I redid this room initially by painting it all white (instead of two different shades of aqua!) and adding my boring "modern traditional" black chairs and farmhouse style table everyone had... changed the rug like 4 times... the finally redid it in a beautiful timeless way I love. Full post HERE.

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  • Dining table: vintage Ethan Allen 
  • Chairs: vintage
  • Sideboard: Grandin Road
  • Cabbage Plates: Amazon
  • Rug: RugsUSA
  • Curtains: Twopages (my code SUZANNAHSTANLEY gets you 25% off) 
  • Wallpaper: Brewster
  • Chandelier: original to the house, but I swapped the glass for these shades

Kitchen

The kitchen was one of the biggest projects in the house, which we tackled entirely ourselves with a 1-year-old in 2019, and then I kept refining it as my style became more classic and traditional. I shared the more recent Nancy Meyers-inspired kitchen updates here, and the breakfast nook update here.

You can see all the kitchen posts HERE.

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Downstairs Bathroom

This project almost killed me when we did it in 2019 (SO much tile, argh) and then it was feeling very plain so I wallpapered it and painted the vanity, and changed out the mirror and shade. Love it now! Details HERE.

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Guest Room/My Office

This was our bedroom till we moved upstairs, then it became a guest room and was pretty boring until I decided to wallpaper it with a preppy blue and white wallpaper. Now it's my office plus a guest room and I love it! More details HERE.

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Mudroom/Office

This funky room leads out to the garage and backyard, but was once Otto's nursery! Then it was my office and sewing room, now it's Micah's office, plus backpack and shoe storage room. 

See it as a mudroom/sewing room HERE and as an office HERE.

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Upstairs Hall

Just had to show you how this space has changed.

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Otto’s Room

This room is small and funky and hard to furnish (hence the built-in platform bed situation the previous owners did for their boys). See Otto’s blue and yellow room reveal HERE.

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My Bedroom

Ha... this room, as you can see, was not quite ready for us to move in when we first got the keys... I had drywall added over that back wall and painted it white, then eventually painted it this custom pink! After my divorce, though it wasn't a girl power move necessarily... just a more interesting design choice! See my most recent pink bedroom updates HERE. 

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Lucy’s Room

This room was cool but a little scary before... it took about 3 coats of primer to cover the wood grain, adding wood-look flooring helped so much, and I swagged the light to the center of the room to distribute it better... the rest was decor! Read all about her strawberry floral and gingham room HERE. The only way to access it is through our bedroom!

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Upstairs Bathroom

This half bathroom is the only one we have upstairs so it's hard-working! I redid it with the sage green wainscotting and some unfortunately trendy grey patterned tile in 2020 and it was feeling a little too vintage-modern for me... so I did some updates last year including adding the perfect floral wallpaper.

I shared the latest upstairs bathroom renovation HERE.

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Basement Stairwell

This stairwell is a small and secondary space, but it really needed an update, don't you think? Details HERE.

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Basement (Laundry Room, Playroom, Guest Bedroom, and Bathroom)

Hoo boy... the basement was the biggest project. but so glad we did it. HERE is the before/after and cost breakdown post, and I'll work on a decor post next now that it's done.

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  • Laundry rack airer: Amazon
  • Media room rug: Loloi
  • Couch: Pottery Barn
  • Ottoman: Interior Define (Code SUZANNAH20 gets you 20% off your order)
  • Weight rack: Amazon
  • Pink bead curtain: Amazon
  • String lights: Amazon
  • Duvet cover: Greenrow
  • Quilt: Quince (get 10% off your first order with my code INFG-26SUZANNAHSTANLEY10)
  • Nightstands: Hulala Home on Amazon
  • Everything in the bathroom: see original post
  • Paint color: walls Sherwin-Williams Meditative, trim Sherwin-Williams Refuge

What I Learned?

Renovating this house has been a hard but incredible journey. It's still not my dream house (I'd choose a different layout and exterior style), but every day I'm so grateful I get to live here and raise my kids here. I'm so grateful I've been able to create our bedrooms, craft tables, bath toy organization, places to snuggle... and they're beauitful. 

It took longer than I'd hoped, due to life's challenges, but it also keeps evolving so I probably won't ever be completely done... adding cool art I find, planting more plants, that kind of thing. "Home takes time," as they say, which can be frustrating, but the good thing is it just keeps getting better as you go.

Next up: the exterior this summer, when everything is green and in bloom.

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If you want to explore each space in more detail, you can find all of the room renovation posts HERE.

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