Drab Lancaster City Row Home gets a Pear-colored facelift

460 New Dorwart Street was really something.
We jumped right into the renovations after the sale of darling Louise Avenue and her blush colored cabinets which proved that pink just might be the new black. But who’s to say? Because New Dorwart might prove that yellow is the new pink. And by yellow I really mean “Bosc Pear” – the Sherwin Williams color we finally decided on after weeks of back-and-forth-ness.
New Dorwart is a sweet little street for us. Just a block away from this house is the first home we renovated as The Chris & Claude Co.- the first home we dreamed up, scraped our pennies together for and filled with goodwill furniture. We are much obliged to be back in the same neighborhood once more. Bless her heart for putting up with us again.
This particular neighborhood in Lancaster is called Cabbage Hill and it has such a neat community of people who take great pride in their community and what happens here.

This home was inhabited for the past 30+ years by an older gentleman – we know this because he left an abundance of old family photographs in the home. These pictures inspired us to take the home back to its glory days.

We try to incorporate the story of the home into our renovation. The homes we enter have already been designed and loved and lived in- so we like to remember its history while simultaneously making room for its future. In this home, we were able to keep the original wallpaper, a few black and white photos from the box we discovered and some architectural elements like the hardwood floors, original wood kitchen ceilings and brick walls.

We knew pretty quickly that to tell the story of the home we would need to design it with retro-inspired vibes by adding modern undertones, lime-washed living room walls and bold pops of unexpected colors.