When I moved in the living room and dining room had mahogany woodwork and beautiful oak hardwood floors, coved ceilings and arched doorways.  This portion of the house had the wonderful vintage charm of an old Victorian Tudor.  The rest of the house had painted woodwork and cheap carpet over the top of fir flooring.  The basement and attic were both substantial in size but completely unfinished.   The whole place in general needed a lot of work ... truly a "fixer-upper" which is why I was able to purchase the house for a whopping $68,000.  Before the mid-80s housing boom, the average house price for a two-bedroom house of this size in the Seattle city area was about $250,000.  After about 2000 hours of work over the 12 years I owned it, we sold it for about $150,000 profit which didn't include all the sweat equity I and later Nora put into it.