Before: Staircase After: Staircase As they researched, Kwame and Tamara assembled a collection of pieces they loved, from a rich green tile from Heath Ceramics, to a fabric chandelier by Pinch.

A Remodel, Nearly Derailed by the Pandemic, Brought This 118-Year-Old New York House Into the Next Century. Check out the Before and After.

They bought their new house — built in 2003 — and moved in a couple of months later, after bathroom remodeling was finished and the workers had left.

It was a much-needed renovation for a nearly 40-year-old house. In 2013, when Hutson got a new job in The Woodlands, he decided to give up his Houston apartment and buy his first home closer to work.

After four months of remodeling and updating the two-story house plus its basement and landscaping, the property was put it back on the market at $639,000.

The kitchen, photographed above before the remodel, was tiny and had a small stove squeezed into in an alcove, old-style 18-inch-deep counters and few cabinets.

The house was later used as a boarding home and office building, and was nearly demolished before renovation efforts in the 1990s. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places.