? about swapping computers

I have 2, late 2009 iMacs; 1 at my office and 1 at home.  The one at the office still has Snow Leopard (which I learned Mac on & love); the one at home has Mavericks, which is okay.  My issue is the home/Mavericks iMac is slow-I only have 4GB of memory in it, but could upgrade to 8.
However, while the office iMac also only has 4 Gigs of memory, it can be upgraded to 16.......
What I'm thinking of doing is copying both machine to a partitioned EHD, then wiping both clean, swapping them, then reinstalling all the home stuff with Mavericks and upgrading it to the 16 Gigs, and taking the other one to the office and reinstalling everything with Snow Leopard on it, and maybe upgrading it to 8 Gigs, just because.
Is this a feasible scenario, or is there something I should be wary of doing this?
Sam

Well, here is what EtreCheck shows: 
EtreCheck version: 1.9.15 (52)
Report generated August 25, 2014 at 8:42:12 PM MDT
Hardware Information: ?
  iMac (20-inch, Early 2009) (Verified)
  iMac - model: iMac9,1
  1 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2 cores
  4 GB RAM
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  NVIDIA GeForce 9400 - VRAM: 256 MB
  iMac 1680 x 1050
System Software: ?
  OS X 10.9.4 (13E28) - Uptime: 0 days 4:28:52
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iTunes Plug-ins: ?
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Time Machine: ?
  Skip System Files: NO
  Mobile backups: OFF
  Auto backup: NO - Auto backup turned off
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  Last backup: 2014-07-22 17:19:38 +0000
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