At home: Susan and Aaron Perlut's Dogtown downsize fits perfectly
Susan and Aaron Perlut renovated a small Dogtown home to perfectly meet their needs to downsize.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024 in their backyard, renovated a small Dogtown home to perfectly meet their needs to downsize.
Susan found furnishings for the bright and cozy living room on Facebook Marketplace, including this set of four leather swivel chairs, and a mirrored wood hall tree. A colorful painting of Malcolm X by Colorado-based artist Thomas “Detour” Evans hangs above a wall-mounted fireplace. Susan did the sunflower painting herself.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the front first-floor room.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the front first-floor room.
A central sitting room leads into the colorful kitchen. The Perluts knocked out walls and widened the doorways to create a more open flow. New distressed hickory floors lead the eye toward the back of the house.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the center first-floor room.
Susan’s vision for the kitchen, achieved in a month, included upcycling the original oak cabinetry with white paint and new hardware, replacing upper cabinets with modern open shelves, adding new granite countertops and covering the walls in a colorful mural of Van Gogh’s “Almond Blossom.”
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the kitchen.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the kitchen.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the second-floor main bedroom.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the second-floor main bedroom.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the second-floor common room.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is the second-floor common room.
Framed photos of the Perluts’ sons, Jackson and Trey, line the staircase leading to the second floor.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is a basement bedroom.
The basement consisted of only a showerhead and a toilet. The Perluts finished it to create a bedroom and a full bath for their son, Jackson, when home from college.
A neighborhood church’s copper steeple inspired Susan’s vision for the home’s front exterior. She refinished the original metal awning with copper paint treated with a chemical overlay to create the green patina. She applied the same process to the decorative window boxes.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured here is the front exterior of the home.
A recent back yard renovation included shortening and rebuilding an old deck and creating a new patio out of salvaged St. Louis bricks, as well as a new walkway, privacy fence and landscaping.
Susan and Aaron Perlut, renovated a small Dogtown home, photographed on Monday, June 10, 2024, to perfectly meet their needs to downsize. Pictured is their backyard.
Christian Gooden
Photographer
The couple had purchased an 1899-built home in Dogtown about five years ago as one of several rental properties they owned around the area
