Project Case Studies

Before-and-after writeups of completed Hoover Housing Solutions jobs.

Why This West Portsmouth Homeowner Chose a Full Home Renovation Over Moving

The family had been in the house for 14 years. Two parents, three kids — two in high school, one in middle school — a dog, and a tight floor plan that had stopped working about four years in. They’d been browsing real estate listings for a year. Every time they got close to making […]

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Landscaping Transformation in Wheelersburg: Beds, Borders, and Hardscaping

The yard was 1.2 acres on a corner lot in Wheelersburg, just off Galena Pike. The house was a clean 1990s ranch — well-kept, well-loved — but the yard had been on autopilot for almost a decade. Patchy lawn under the maples, leggy boxwoods that had outgrown their bed, a concrete walkway with chipped edges,

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Full Kitchen Renovation in Portsmouth: From Dated to Modern

The kitchen was the original 1962 build. Pine cabinets the previous owner had painted white in the early 2000s. A 30-inch electric range, sealed-burner stovetop, no hood. Vinyl flooring that had been laid over the original sheet linoleum, which had been laid over the original tongue-and-groove pine subfloor. The homeowners — a family in their

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