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Ali Michel customized her 1930s cottage.Madeline Harper PhotographyInterior designer Ali Michel bought a cottage in Austin in 2024.She renovated the 1930s home with her dad, working with a budget of $80,000 for the whole house.Michel balanced high-end touches with more affordable Ikea pieces and DIY projects.Buying a house you know you'll have to renovate can be intimidating.It was slightly less daunting for interior designer Ali Michel, though, as she could use her professional expertise while renovating the 1930s cottage she fell in love with in Austin.She and her dad worked together to turn the house into her dream space in just three months, as photos from Madeline Harper Photography show.Ali Michel found her way into interior design when she bought her first home.Madeline Harper PhotographyMichel, 27, has always loved homes and interior spaces, and she even considered studying architecture in college. Instead, she pursued chemical engineering, thinking it could lead to a stable career faster.After she finished her degree in 2020, Michel moved to St. Louis, where she and her dad purchased a property together when she was just 22."We bought my first house together," she said. "We renovated it. I was like, 'Oh, this is what I should have been doing all along.'"After falling in love with the renovation process while working on the home, Michel decided to make interior design her career. She secured a remote internship with Living Oak Interior Design and, in 2022, moved to Austin to work for the company full time. Now, she's a lead designer for the firm.In 2024, Michel fell in love with a 1930s cottage in Austin.Madeline Harper PhotographyMichel had been in Austin for about two years when she started thinking about buying a home."I was already living in this neighborhood," Michel said. "I loved it. I knew I would want a home in the area eventually."When she saw a 1930s cottage for sale in the area, she decided to check it out with her dad. The two-bed, one-bath property was about 1,150 square feet."The house was modernized, but it was being advertised as a teardown," she said, meaning the listing suggested a buyer might tear it down and rebuild because parts of the home, like the flooring, had seen better days."We toured it, and I was like, 'This is not a teardown. It just really needs to be renovated,'" Michel said.She said she immediately thought the house was beautiful. She loved the layout, as it had no hallways and maximized the existing space. She also loved the home's green exterior, the glimpses of hardwood floors she could see throughout the house, and the fact that she could instantly tell how much potential it had. There was also a separate guesthouse on the property that could be turned into a rental space to bring in additional income for the owner."When I walked through it, I could just picture what it should look like," she said.Michel bought the house so she and her dad could transform it together.Madeline Harper PhotographyMichel bought the property in October 2024 with the intention of renovating it with her dad. The duo hoped to do as much of the work as possible on their own because they had a smaller budget than Michel was used to for an entire house."The budget was $80,000 to renovate the entire house, which is what we usually spend on one kitchen for clients," she said. "That was a really tight budget."Still, Michel said she couldn't wait to work on her own space, even if it would be challenging."It's hard designing your own space when you're an interior designer because you see so many cool things every day," Michel said. "I just wanted to do almost too many things.""It's a fun opportunity because you don't have a client telling you no, and you don't have to convince anyone else of anything," she added.They began the renovations as soon as possible.Madeline…