Makeover contest
leads to home transformation
BY ANDREA ESTRADA
SOUTH COAST BEACON
The second South Coast
Beacon Dream Room Makeover is finished and the Perlin family has a new
living room to show for it. The family also has a renovated dining room,
kitchen and breakfast nook, having used the Dream Room Makeover as the
starting point for a major re-do.
“Susan
and I redesigned the area of the space, which included opening walls,
dropping the living room ceiling, creating an entryway and adding archways
and spaces in the kitchen,” said Bunny DeLorie, who, with business
partner Susan Lomeli, oversaw the makeover. She and Lomeli own Homes
Dressed to Sell, a company that helps sellers make their homes more
enticing to potential buyers by staging the interior with key furnishings
and accessories.
With assistance from
contest sponsors, DeLorie and Lomeli gave the living room and attached
dining room a new look from floor to ceiling and front door to back.
Bella View Windows
installed new windows and doors while Luis Cruz from K&K Painting
Co. brought color to the walls courtesy of Goleta Valley Paint. Cruz also
refinished the cupboards and cabinets in the kitchen with a creamy antique
glaze. The five-step process involved sanding the original surface and
applying two coats of paint, a coat of antique glaze and a finishing coat
of lacquer.
“Luis did a
beautiful job,” said DeLorie. “He painted the walls and ceilings
in the whole house.”
Andros Floor Design
provided wood flooring, which the Perlins assigned to the dining and living
rooms, kitchen and breakfast nook.
Finishing touches
came from Brazil Baroque in the form of an accent table for the dining
room and from Tri-County Lighting, which offered wall sconces and a matching
chandelier for the dining room.
Makeover fans kept
track of the process through a Web site designed by John Ovrebo. He maintained
a photo library and a virtual walking tour of the house so site visitors
could watch the progress.
Ovrebo’s
company, House-Maps.com,
provides detailed as-built floor plans and area calculations for residential
and commercial properties. His clients include real estate agents who
want to provide potential home buyers with as detailed information as
possible on the footprints and room dimensions of properties they represent
and home owners who want to document the contents layout of their homes
for insurance and other purposes.
“It was great
working with all the local businesses,” DeLorie said. |
