There's a point in all my renovations that I look around and think, "What have I done?" - and I have to be honest that after the crew tore through the front room of the 1883 shotgun-style house my husband and I lovingly dubbed Cherry Pop, there was a real moment of oh noooooo. With wood-paneled walls (painted purple and putrid green), a drop ceiling with a 1980s ceiling fan, and stick-on faux parquet flooring,
Though the front of the house is original, successive add-ons over the years caused the home to feel increasingly disjointed, and its early character became harder and harder to discern. "It was as if there were extensions added on with no master plan and no thought process as to the flow of the property," explains Moore. "And so everywhere you went, there was a jog, a dip, a step up, a step down, a step up. There was no connection point."