" Nick Beasley is the proud owner of this terrific house right behind us here and we met nick once before when he was at the north Bennet street school here in Boston he's now a successful. Remodeling and restoration contractor right correct with your buddy mr. -- correct -- there right you got good. We'll tell me about finding this house and coming did to Melrose -- you grew up in another part of Boston. Forever being Bagram from Brookline yeah just about eight miles south of here in -- looking at houses. Come this. The market here is very Steve -- house a very expensive overlooking a different neighborhoods in this little bit further -- you got the more affordable it came in we knew Melrose. From some family and friends who lived here and he knew that the schools were good in them -- pretty good and we. We're -- looking for single family homes but then our realtors said they might want to consider a two family because you can get. More house floor. Less money basically and so yeah you can get more value correct. And of course the income from the lower rental unit helps with the monthly mortgage payments right very helpful. Isn't this a single family originally though there was built -- is a single family down. 1895. So it's it's it's a true nineteenth century house -- Iraq's. And at some point it got converted into a two family risk. And right now we live on the second and third floors in the rent out the first floor OK. I'm not gonna ask you how much -- I think it's a great formula -- first you know first time homeowners your wife's happy with it. Kids here adjusting to it but is happy living here in. Him pond being at the house put together so of course you you bought the house before you realized that the stork was on its way correct. Great congratulations when's the baby due and in June about six weeks before he."

" it it was felt as a single family and these were great big bedrooms that you see in this space. And then sometime in the 1940s and fifty's we don't know exactly when it was converted to single there rather to family. I'm so the spaces that once were bedrooms are now our living room and dining room. Originally when we talked about buying a home I hadn't -- of the two family seemed daunting to take on tenants in a big old house but. And went ahead and made the leap and it's an -- Compress a fact we've had to do a few things historic area say it there was a leaky roof so we had to rip off the deck. I'm to access the roof to re cover that and so that's a project that is waiting to be completed. But besides that it hasn't been so much work. The editing that we did when you first continues they had a lot about color. And we ended up getting help with the color because it turns out we weren't so great at picking out things on around. I'm so we chose a blue for the living here much in love and then at the suggestion of that colors to rework it. I mean he did this and very different color than the dining room and living room and she also suggested painting the ceiling so that it would really delineate the space and -- Stand out on its own. -- the dining -- that you see per car Thomas inspired by my grandmother's China so we have. That ten and AC air. And it's really was the reason for us picking the color and they're thrilled with that. So they go from the blue living around to -- the transition space -- dining room and then they'll -- into the green kitchen. So hang in Texas in and out of breakthrough in the kitchen connected is this alcove space which makes a great office. It's not acting kitchen interns at the fixtures and the cabinets that that's great space. And we're thrilled to have a place for kids can be one of the things are thinking about is making it. Aides say -- today things like cabinets I won't be opened. Comrades are thinking about safety for the third foreigners -- that's part of the focus. We have two other bedrooms upstairs and -- have a teeny tiny room that we -- thanks Richard after an attack -- Original be pouring down planting. But it's gonna take a lot of work to get into shape as -- the two bathrooms on the stand on the second floor that we're working to you I'm hoping to convert as well."

" What was wrong with the bathroom off the main hall was the main bathroom and off the master bedroom has little powder room no we decide to change that. And make the powder room off the hallway and real side a full bath off the master. It sounds like a very good plan -- mean otherwise your guests would have to go through the bedroom to get to the powder room and Jack somebody had it backwards right yes -- They should have a little powder room off the master bedroom that was only. From here to this wall. And we had a big bathroom off the hallway. That was the bath for the entire house we decide to switch them and put a little powder room off the hallway. And put a big bathroom off the master bedroom and so we started that process by putting a partition wall between the two. And now we're moving into rough plumbing. What -- remove the floor you can see that. We have all the damage that the original plumbers did this bathroom was probably done in the 1940s or fifties and they -- out all the material. In the original and their structural members which policy creates a problem what we're lucky enough that we can run our new pipes. Underneath the joists because we found a drop ceiling below. Which is allowed us to -- plumb both the powder room. And the master bathroom and really get. Lines up to the new -- put on the third floor."