Redecorating has been with Caitlin Chase going back to her time growing up in Chicago when she convinced her parents to let her redecorate her room, writes Paul Jablow for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

“I was always moving things around,” she recalled. “They let me paint one wall. I must have painted it five times.”

Now married with a daughter on the way, the couple decided to buy a 1963 four-bedroom house in Wallingford.

“This was my first opportunity to re-envision a whole space,” Chase said. “I gravitated toward mid-century modern because I wanted to honor some of the architectural sense of the house.”

She started two weeks before daughter Maya was born. The entire house was painted and they focused on redesigning the kitchen and front hall.

She and Chris “have learned a lot about how to make the house our own on a tight budget,” she said.

Still planned is a redo of the primary bathroom, a divider wall for the bedroom, and a basement renovation.

“Ultimately, all of this work is really for Maya,” she said, “as it’s an investment in a place we can make our own and grow in together as a family.”

Read more about Caitlin Chase and her Wallingford home’s renovations in The Philadelphia Inquirer.