Sometimes thoughts about doing a home renovation might sound scary. Or expensive. However, with enough time and effort, turning your space into a reflection of your personality can become an exciting journey that also adds value to it.
So we at Bored Panda put together a list of pictures that people took before and after they redid their kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, and other living areas. Hopefully, they will inspire more creative endeavors!
#1 My Living Room, Before And After
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#2 Before And After Of Our Florida Sunroom
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#3 Before And After "Pantry" Area
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#4 Turned Basement Into Bedroom
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#5 Now And Then Of Our Living Room In A Small Victorian Terrace. Bristol UK
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#6 My Mudroom, Before And After
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#7 Before And After Living And Dining Room
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#8 Pantry Redo
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#9 Thought You All Could Appreciate My Parents' Before And After Shot Of Their Living Room. When They First Moved In, To Now
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#10 Bathroom Renovation Is Complete In Our Century Home
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#11 My 5-Week Condo Renovation
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#12 I Took 8 Months Remodeling My Walk-In Closet With Custom Built-In Cabinets
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#13 DIY Guest Room Makeover
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#14 I Converted A Disastrous Hall Closet Into A Tiny Home Office
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#15 My Wife And I Are Finally Seeing The Vision Come To Life
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#16 Before And After: Victorian Living Room, Baltimore
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#17 The Before And After
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#18 Powder Room Before And After, Mid-Century Vibe
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#19 Before And After Of Bathroom And Ensuite - First Big Job Done In Our Victorian Terrace House
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#20 Guest Bathroom Remodel. The Guest Bathroom Redesign Is Still In Process (You Will Notice The Empty Wall In The Reflection)
The painted scene was done by hand and is inspired by chinoiserie-style wallpapers, done over a canvas of silk and rice paper.
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#21 The Process Of Taking Down Our Kitchen Wall And Creating More Of An Open Layout From The Kitchen To The Dining Room. We Love How Spacious This Feels
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#22 When I Bought This House, The Kitchen Was A Filthy Little Room You'd Want To Wash After Setting Foot In. It Took About 10 Months To Fix The Place Up. I Am Absolutely In Love With It Now
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#23 We Renovated Our Bathroom
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#24 No Turning Back Half-Wall Book Shelf
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#25 Complete 2nd Floor Renovation. I Can't Believe I Did It! I'm So Proud
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#26 We Just Completed Our First Full Kitchen Renovation In A Flat And Learned A Lot Of Lessons Along The Way, But We Think It Looks Good
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#27 Just Finished Small Bathroom Remodel (Before And After)
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#28 My Budget Temporary Kitchen Renovation With Hand-Painted Countertops
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#29 It Took Me 3 Months To Complete The Bathroom. I'm Quite Proud Of Myself For Finally Completing It
I had to rip it all out and decided to do everything myself, from plastering to tiling and plumbing. It was very stressful, and I don’t think I’d ever do it again.
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#30 Home Office, Southern Ohio (Before & After)
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#31 My 18-Month Bathroom Renovation Is Complete
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#32 I Remodeled Our Bathroom By Myself Over The Last Year
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#33 Before And After Of Our Bathroom
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#34 My Full Bathroom Renovation
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#35 My Green Bedroom, Edinburgh, UK
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#36 Basement Bar, Before And After, Chicago
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#37 Wanted To Share My Biggest House Highlight And That Was The Transformation Of The Kitchen
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#38 Before And After. I Renovated My Tiny Room
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#39 2 Days Of Work For £400 In Labor For A Proper Grafter. I Almost Felt Bad For Him, But He Seemed Happy To Crack On. I Was Really Impressed And Pleased With His Work
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#40 I'm Back With My Biggest Project Yet! A Complete Bathroom Remodel For $5000
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#41 Remodeled Primary Bathroom
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#42 Original Basement As Purchased vs. 95% Done Finishing
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#43 10,000 Pennies Made A Boring Space Way More Interesting
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#44 Full Bathroom Renovation
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#45 Finally Finished My Living Room. Here’s A Before And After Picture
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#46 Bathroom Before And After
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#47 Redid Our Bathroom/Closet, And It Turned Out Uniquely Cozy
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#48 Here Is The New Kitchen
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#49 Before And After
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#50 Before And After Of My Bathroom Remodel
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#51 A Complete Kitchen Renovation In Our 1870 Farmhouse
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#52 I Finished My Garage Floor
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#53 Built My Wife Some Built-In Cabinets For Her Birthday. Cheated With IKEA Cabinets
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#54 Steam Shower And Bathroom Renovation
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#55 Before And After Kitchen Renovation - Still A Few Touch-Ups And Pops Of Color Needed
I grew up in this house and it’s now mine. I love how much brighter and happier it is for this new chapter!
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#56 Before And After Living Room, South West Germany
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#57 Little Before And After Of My Masculine Kitchen Remodel
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#58 Kitchen Before And After
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#59 Not Totally Complete Yet, But I’m So Happy With How Our Bathroom Renovation Is Turning Out! I’m No Design Expert, But It Definitely Is Fun
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#60 Full Bathroom Renovation
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#61 Before And After Pictures Of My Bedroom In Irvine, California
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#62 Before And After
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#63 Dining Room Before And After
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#64 Before And After Of The Living Room In Our Edwardian House. We Bought This House Last July As A Real Doer-Upper. There's Still So Much To Do, But We're Really Happy With This Room
We did a full rewire, stripped the wallpaper, re-lined the walls and painted, pulled up the carpets, sanded and oiled the floors, stripped the doors, replaced the fireplace with a salvaged one of the same era, and fitted a new ceiling rose.
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#65 A Few Photos From Our Renovation. Our First Project. What Do You All Think?
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#66 Our First Born Son's Nursery
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#67 Our DIY Bathroom Remodel With No Previous Experience. We Started This Remodel In December 2021 After A Pipe Burst In Our Master Bathroom. Well, A Year And A Month Later, We Just Finished
My wife and I had no experience doing anything with our hands. I'm a software engineer in my day job, so I just spent a lot of time on YouTube learning what to do. My dad is a pretty handy guy, though, so I leaned on him a lot for help, but he's out of state, so there is only so much he could do. This is inside an 1890 Denver Victorian, and we tried to keep the design elements relevant. We probably spent about $15k on materials.
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#68 My Dining Room When We Moved In and Now
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#69 Kitchen Remodel Before And After
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#70 We Did A Major Renovation Of Our Home Whilst Living In It
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#71 IKEA Laundry Renovation
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#72 Built My Own Voice-Over Booth Underneath The Stairs
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#73 Painted My Front Door Last Night
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#74 Finally Finished My Bathroom After 2 Years, A Night And Day Difference
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#75 Before And After: Living Room Renovation, Georgia
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#76 Renovating My 1980s Ranch-Style Home In Texas, She’s Coming Along Really Nice
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#77 Bought My First Apartment And Just Got Done With The Renovation. I Think The Kitchen Is My Favorite Place
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#78 Small, But Tall Laundry Room. Before And After
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#79 Bathroom Renovation
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#80 Before And After Renovating My Bathroom. Moldy Retro Bathroom To Clean Contemporary Bathroom
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#81 We Added Some Prints To The Kitchen. I Don’t Think I Will Ever Get Over This Transformation
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#82 One Of Our Favorite Transformations, The Kitchen In Our Streatham Hill Project. Leaving This Before And After
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#83 One Of My Favorite Parts Of My DIY Kitchen Renovation Was This Custom Refrigerator Cabinet Surrounded
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#84 We Moved Into A House And The Stairs Were Scary. So We Changed Them
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#85 I Bought My First Home Last December, And It's Been Quite The Ride. The Garage Was One Of The First Few Things To Get Redone, And It's Finally Nearing Completion
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#86 Finishing Up The "Dark Forest" Nursery At 38 Weeks
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#87 Living Room Remodel
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#88 Look At The Difference Before And After I Remodeled The House
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#89 Before And After Of My Bathroom. It Cost Me Around $25,000. I Did All The Carpentry And Had To Rebuild The Walls Around The Shower As They Had Water Rot
My brother is a plumber. I did most of it apart from the tiling, so I saved a lot on other trade costs.
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#90 Bathroom Renovation Before And After. We Tried To Make The Design Contemporary But Remain True To The 1930s Queenslander House
The only thing that didn’t go to plan was the vanity mirror lighting globes. We wanted them on either side of the mirror, but this couldn’t be achieved. It looks better as is, but not as functional.
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#91 Before & After
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#92 My "Weekend" Laundry Room Makeover
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#93 My $150 DIY Bathroom Makeover
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#94 Before And After Upgrading My Bedroom/Office
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#95 My Brother Renovated My Bathroom In 2 Weeks (Before And After)
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#96 Before And After
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#97 Kitchen Renovation Project
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#98 Bathroom Remodel: My First Major DIY Project
It took around 9 months from ripping the first tiles out to putting a new toilet seat on and calling the job done. The cost ended up being around £1500, with most of it going towards the Ikea sink and the tiles, of course. The process was an effort for sure; removing the old tiles without damaging the walls was impossible, so I ended up ripping it all out, putting new plasterboard up, and then tiling over a few weekends. My father created a great frame for the back wall for the inserts, which I boarded over and then tiled. And then just odd bits here and there.
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#99 Kitchen Renovation
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#100 Long Planned, Covid Delayed, Kitchen Renovation. 1905 Farmhouse In New York
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#101 A Simple Before And After Of Our Downstairs Loo Sink Area
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#102 $250 Apartment Bathroom Facelift
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#103 Remodeled Ugly Carpeted Stairs With Tile And Vinyl - My First Major Project
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#104 Just Renovated My Bathroom. All By Myself And I’m Quite Proud Of It
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#105 Before And After Fireplace Makeover
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#106 Our Boy’s Bathroom Renovation
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#107 How Did I Do On This Remodel?
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#108 Eight Months Of Renovation Work (Nights And Weekends)
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#109 Finished Renovating An 18th-Century Townhouse In 18 Months
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#110 Bathroom Glow-Up Before/After
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#111 Finally Finished: A DIY Kitchen. Besides Major Restructures And Electrical Work, I Did Pretty Much Most Of It Myself. Daunting But Awesome Experience. 5 Months End-To-End
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#112 How It Started vs. How It's Going
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