I only had a quick look and have major tile envy. I love that arch in the wall - what great architectural details. I will have to come back and have a better look, but I really like what Ive seen so far!

GORGEOUS!

Really fun. I assume you aren't finished with the kitchen.

HOLY-ARCHITECTURAL-DETAILS BATMAN!

Wow. Especially love the bathroom.

Love the blue cabinet against the green in the Living Room...

Love the wall color with the bright white trim!! The peaked arch is amazing!!

The bookshelves are a dream -- you did a good job of making them sturdy but unobtrusive. And why don't more houses have such attractive archways? I never fail to be enchanted by arches with rounded corners, or arches with nice woodwork. I always notice the arches, yet this is the first time I've seen one shaped like this. More arches, builders!, I'm worried about your pretty tinted stemware on those wire shelves in the kitchen -- here's hoping they're on their way to the empty space in the glass-front cupboards.

Couple of questions: Where does one put a drink on without any end tables or coffee tables in the livingroom? Or is the L/R off limits for food/drinks?

Why hide the georgeous natural light with the 'utensil' picture in the kitchen window?
Other than that, I ditto everyone comments especially JOSE A. What a chuckle.

I'm really impressed. Reading through the description here, I can't believe you folks didn't lose your minds while having no shower for 9 months. Everything looks expertly executed, despite taking a "learn-as-you-go" approach to the renovations. Beautiful tile work in the bathroom. Well done!

Aaaaamazing peaked arch! What a great home you have.

Fun tour! I love the peep hole in the door.

Truly beautiful home. It has just the right amount of stuff in it for my taste- not cluttered, but not sterile and empty either. Good choices of color. I would have thought the blue dresser would clash with the walls- but I've been proven pleasantly wrong!

Awww that gray kitty! And the little black dustmop!

I am speechless. LOVE IT.

this house makes me happy. thanks for sharing your adorable home with us.

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to take possession of your house (and felines) and move in. I trust that's OK. I adore the wall color in the living room (& dining room and bedroom - same no?). And that ceiling and circus tent open doorway? Gah. I plan on moving in on Aug 1, 2012. Please make the necessary arrangements on your end :)

I enjoyed this tour! The kitchen floor, the bathroom, the little details of the house, wowza.

Wow! Look at that arch and tin ceiling! Job well done!

Yess! I am so happy you went for bold colors, but painted the inside of the arch white! My husband and I have been arguing over whether that exact spot in our own arch should be white or match the walls. I will be filing this in my "I told you so" folder for later :)

@Noelle153, I'm a big fan of the apple core (color on the outside, white on the inside) paint job at cased openings as well.

@Noelle153 & Duane Hill - I completely agree. Aside from the bathroom, which is completely amazing and perfect for the house, that was my favorite design choice.

Great house tour! Would really love to know the name of that yellow paint color in the hallway! Awesome job on your reno :)

I absolutely love that archway. The turquoise is a beautiful color, but personally I would have only used it in one or two rooms. I'd love to see a picture of the outside!

Oh, and that peephole is so lovely!

"Keys, Phone, Wallet" I repeat this to myself when leaving the house to make sure I've got everything, so I burst out laughing when I saw the doormat. Your house is fabulous - it feels like happy people live there. Lovely job on the renovation, and awesome arch.

Amazing job! I love the paint colors, the arch, the tiles, the space(!), the fact you got your furniture at affordable stores, the joyful atmosphere created. The Behr Color Smart system is great.

Are those tapered silver pegs on the bottom of the Klippan loveseats? If so, I must know where you got them! I want to replace mine so bad with some silver-toned tapered goodies.

Oh, never mind! I didn't know that the Karlstad legs would work on the Klippan as well. :D

Love the black and white kitchen floor. What a beautiful cat too! Now I need to go get rid of a bunch of stuff...

I love it all!

So no English major has ever picked up a tool in his or her life? Since when did that become a stereotype.

This is the kind of home where, even if it isn't totally to your taste, it is so well done that I think just about anyone would have a hard time not appreciating it. This is really good.

I lived in a 1930s bungalow for about eight months (house sitting) and this is eerily close to what I fantasized about doing to it...gorgeous. And just for the record, your arch is WAY better than that one was - it was just a plain semi-circle arch (though it was the whole hallway, so that was pretty cool). GORGEOUS!

I knew as soon as I saw the wall color, I'd love it. And I do.

I absolutely love bungalows, though this isn't quite my color pallet. Love the kitties and great job on the tiled bathroom, very appropriate for the home's era.

A few questions: Why did you have to take it down to the studs? Was there once a fireplace? If so, what happened to it?

Now I want to move back to my old bungalow and paint the arch just like they did!

Wow you did this yourself? What is a bungalow? Does it just mean it is a one story house?

Hi, everyone! So excited you like our place! What an honor for us :)

- not finished with the kitchen. the backsplash needs some work yet, and i've got shelving and a pot rack and a utensil rod to put up. the print blocking the window is just waiting on some paint touch ups out of cat's way.

- i'm still hunting for the right end tables/coffee table for the living room. i really like CB2s clear "C" tables, bent plastic i think, but they're pretty pricey.

- i've never kicked any of the pics off the wall in the hallway. the baseboard is 5 or 6 inches high and the frames don't stick out past it. any lower or thicker frames and i can see how that would be perilous! the hall color is BEHR Expedition Khaki. i call it "winnie the pooh."

- yep, is the Karlstad silver legs. it took a little doing to swap them out, but i really preferred the tapered ones to the normal cylindrical ones.

- the bathroom was organized for a tiny shower and a built in (but missing) vanity where the shower now is, and we wanted a big tub (tahoe is 6' 6"), AND there were TWO layers of tile already on the walls, so that's why we had to gut the whole thing and start from scratch.

- i know some very resourceful English majors. i only know one that is also a plumber. :)

Thanks again everyone and PROPS to Ashley for her amazing photographs!!!

I love the color and all the architectural details!
Well done!!

SWOON!

What people mean when they say a house has "good bones." I took a glance at the blog too. When you see what they had to work with to get the floors decent...holy moley.

Very cool.

What a happy & fresh space! I love it all, including that your blackboard includes real stuff like "soap" and not some fake fancy menu. Now enjoy the fruits of your labor!

Oh, lordy. A little piece of perfection. That turquoise colour rocks. The bathroom made me want to fill up the tub and never leave. And the bookshelves! That peephole!!

I have major house envy.

(And as an English major, I'm willing to run with the stereotype that most of us are the least 'handy' people you're likely to meet.)

Wow, I am in love with your place, you two did some amazing work! The color and whimsy of it make me extremely happy, and I also have major arch envy now!

now THAT's the way to rock a white interior!

everything Elaneb said. Loooooove this place. After all the time I've read this blog and looked at house tours, this is the first place I've seen that I would just move in tomorrow. But that's contingent on the cats--they must stay :) Great work!

TRIPLE YIKES! The third tour I have visited in a row that has some coincidence for me! I see the word "Barnum" and think "Is it.. could it be..". Yes, Denver my home. And not in one of the currently hip and over priced chi chi neighborhoods either but one that requires, shall we say a venturesome spirit.
Oh, and I've been an English major (before these tykes were born probably) am not especially handy (not up to their skills!) and have improvised in response to a nonfunctioning shower(put a wastebasket of hot water filled in the kitchen sink into the shower stall and wet and rinsed myself by dipping and pouring with an empty Super Big Gulp cup). What's with all the coincidence?? I bet dollars to donuts that Anne and Tahoe and I have done "pardon me , excuse me' with our carts in a thrift store at least once. I hope so any way, maybe something will rub off. Gee, kids if I had known I could have given you a stash of five panel doors!
All this local color connection is just the frosting on the cake of my delight with this place(English major!) I won't repeat all the compliments already paid because I agree with them , but would like to say that what I like and admire so much about your home is its story as well as what we get to see. No prior experience, learned as you went, Home Depot, IKEA, thrift stores, family pieces, and just look at it! This is so much what I like, prefer and "believe in" about home and hearth that I feel like a proud papa whose children have had the good luck and done the hard work to succeed beyond the previous generation. Sniffle... (English major)
I hadn't heard that Barnum is a neighborhood on a comeback, but once this gets out....
Also, I'm now seriously considering some turquoise walls in my considerably more modest alley house bungalow garage conversion (2 arches don't = your 1)
DUANEHILL, thanks for introducing me to the term "apple core"paint job. It has both design and language appeal(no that that wasn't intended. Really)
And as if this hasn't gone on long enough it was nice to see some Denver CO positivity and cheer during this time of drought, heat wave and wildfires. Best wishes and hopes to fellow AT commenter Bouldero and his family whose Boulder house was shown last week to such applause.

Oh and kids, can you show us the exterior when you and it are ready?

Bravo!! Well done! Absolutely love the bathroom. As a fellow bungalow renovator (1923) I feel a special connection to projects like this. Great job!!

That bathroom is perfection – keeping with the original flavour of the house, but adding freshness with the crisp green and white. I also love the living room tin ceiling tiles. Nothing like the use of white paint to keep everything bright and cheerful, I always say.

ooo i love those light switch plates. did they come with the house?

and the rest of the house is beautiful too!! well done.

Wow! Beautiful!

The arch outline resembles a circus tent.

As an English major myself I accept that stereotype...but that doesn't mean we can't learn! I did. I thought it was hilarious as I thought back to my fellow English major friends in school.

The bungalow is absolutely perfect! I love that you decorated it like a bungalow and kept with the right cheerful colors and crisp whites and showcased the *amazing* architectural details.

I laughed at the bathing descriptions. I had to do something similar (bathed out of a bucket for a few weeks while renovating the bathroom). Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do and go with the flow sometimes. It worked out!

love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

!!!!

LOVE your home, it's beautiful! I'm curious, how do you keep your cats from getting all over your shelves/window sills? I love that frame you have leaning in the window of your kitchen, but my cats would have knocked that down in the first 2 minutes of putting it there!

I love everything in the house except it just feels too much tiffnay blue/green at times! but other than that - amazing especially the book shelves!!

I think this is my favorite house ever. That arch!!

I love your home! I would move right in and not change a thing!! And the pic with Mr. Russian Blue kitty? So cute.

Yeah for color and character!

Wow! So much to say but it's all already been said!! I love your home!! I WANT your home!! Just gorgeous design and beautiful taste in the furniture and details! It's realistic (happily livable), well decorated and not cluttered (for the amount of books you have). You are daring to have dark kitties and white (gorgeous) couches. Love your description of your style as "Nerd". I relate! I love this place!! Of course, I want more pics as you two continue evolving your home...and as someone said, the outside whenever it is ready! You two have done a wonderful job, and I love this place! I <3 <3 <3 it! and the kitties, by the way, so adorable. The first pic w the very pretty grey boy (i think) was hilarious, just because of his expression. Did I mention that I love this place? ;-)

*just want to add that I just saw the love seats are vinyl. Aha! That's how it works! (with the kitties)

There are elements of this house that I love, but for some reason I find this home quite oppressive - is it because there is just too much turquoise; not enough light; is it too cold? Possibly a mixture of these elements. I think you need some hot-hued flowering plants, to inject some life, warmth and pings of excitement here and there.

Nice and bright!
Love the peephole...

I love that the kitchen is still in progress. This house seems very real and relatable to me. I love that and would like more of it AT. I love your speakeasy too! My only critique is to maybe add some more textiles to breakup the overabundance teal a bit. The teal wall on teal curtain was a bit much for me, but maybe in person it works better. Still, I love the house, the architecture, and your hard work! Very inspiring.

Love the mat on the way out, but why do you need sunglasses in the bathroom?????

So I'm scrolling through the pictures, enjoying looking at the fabrics, colors, pretty gray kitty, furniture, neat trinkets...then, there it was...glaring out from underneath a kitchen chair...the black cat that looks like a giant dust bunny, glaring at the photographer with an intense stare. Cracked me up! I'm sure he's a super nice cat, but it's so funny how he looks so evil, like he's a little demon lurking...LOL I can totally see one of my cats doing that!

Magical house! Your bathroom tile job is lovely! And thanks for the stripey arch inspiration.

I absolutely love your house! Especially all the teal. :)

Wow! I just read your entire blog, Anne, and I am AMAZED and what you two have managed to make. This post really doesn't cover the amount of ripping up, ripping out, and re-plastering that had to occur to transform your double-carpeted, linoleum-ed bungalow into this amazing home. Great job. I don't think I could ever do anything quite so dramatic myself (maybe one room at a time?) but it raises my hopes that maybe some dormant DIY abilities will come out once I'm no longer renting. Thanks for sharing!

The architectural details are simply beautiful, the archway, the bathroom, the keyhole. A bit too much turquoise and shades of green/ teal to my taste, but great house. A work of love.

I, too, chant "phone, wallet, keys" whenever I leave the house.

Perfectly fabulous!

Most of all I like Owl guy on the bed - he is such a cute little fella. Sweet touch.

Divine througout! That archway makes me want to blast Pink Martini and get the party started. We have family in Denver, so we'll drop in next time we're in town. Oh, and I prefer Botanivore Gin, it if's not too much trouble...

whoa teal walls!! I don't think I could use so bold a color in 3 rooms. But it looks great!

also really nice work on the bathroom and kitchen. so impressive!!

favorite elements are a tie between "Our style: Nerdy" and the peephole.

I ADORE this home and all of the work that went into it! Fabulous!!

i like the color in the bathroom but ALL that turquoise kinda punches you in the face. Otherwise well done.

Love the color. Would you say the color in person looks similar to picture? I am considering it for our dining room.

Holy moly, I can't even finish the house tour until I read the whole blog! These pictures are amazing, and the blog ones are even more inspiring. Thanks so much for sharing your home. I am drooling over the bathroom, does the color in there play well with all the teal? Or does it not matter since they are separate?

Oh thank you for putting Barnum on the map. I hope that the neighborhood really is coming up! Who knew that those houses had such great designs on the inside. Beautiful house and great job.
Fellow Denverite.

looks like i'm the only one wondering this: but can you tell me where you got the ee cummings print that's in the bedroom? thanks!!!

Love the color palette, love the archway, just love it all.

I love your place so much. It's adorably curated, smart, simple and just so perfect! Well done!

I was wondering about the ee cummings print also! Love it.

Really beautiful and cozy house -- it reminds me so much of my own. (And I was an English major, too.) I bet your friends love visiting.

This is by far my favorite house tour!

Uhhhh...your house is wonderful! The kitchen is mean......Great Job!!!!!!

What is the name of your tile?