If I had seen this house when it was for sale in West Seattle, even with its fabulous city views and reasonable price tag for the area, I probably would have kept on driving.

Fortunately, there are people with better imaginations than I have, and better renovation skills. After a major remodel, it’s a real head-turner.

The house was built in 1926.

The entire project (purchase, rehab, and resale) was managed by Will Heaton & James Dainard, owners of Heaton Dainard, a full service real estate investment firm in Bellevue, WA, who shared the makeover with me.

Here’s how the living room looked before they got to it:

And here’s that same space now:

The Dining Room Before:

It’s a much cheerier space to eat in today:

They opened it up to the kitchen, which used to look like this:

The house had 3 bedrooms and 1 bath to begin with.

Now there’s an additional bedroom in the finished lower level and 3 full baths in the house.

It was pretty scary upstairs before:

The New Master Suite:

The views of Seattle from the house ain’t bad, either: