Flipping Houses-Part 2

I hope you were able to follow along with my last post about the house that we "rehabed" while our house was being remodeled after it flooded a few years ago.

SEE HERE

 The house that I showed was not our home, 

it was the one that we inherited thru a trade.  

So let's continue with the story...

Along with all of the painting

 (we got bids to paint only 2 rooms with high ceilings

 and they wanted $3,000.00!)

 and new carpet, we remodeled most of the kitchen by ourselves.

 Here is a "before"picture of the lovely Kitchen.

  Again: this is NOT our house.  

These are the Before pictures 

when we were in the acquisition stage.  

What was great about the house was that it had good bones.  We could see the potential. 

 It just needed to be updated and given some TLC. 

There is Mr. Beaux measuring the door for some reason.

Another view.  

The cabinets and the floors were that Honey Oak that had turned Yellow with time.  

Nothing structurally wrong with them, just dated and showing their age. 

Here is a close-up on the Backsplash and counter tops. 

 The counter tops were a lovely Pepto-Bismal pink 

and the tile was your standard white with the fancy black mid-line running the length of the backsplash.  

The stove was the dirtiest nightmare you have ever seen.  They actually had a mason jar screwed in under the stove FULL of grease and gunk.  ICK!!! 

 I tried not to cook much until we could replace it.    

 This view is from the sink area. 

 The faucet was broken and there is that pink counter again. 

 Here you can see how the floors had yellowed 

and were very dull.

  This room is the Hearth room adjoining the Kitchen.

  Ok, enough of this.  

Are you ready for some After pictures?

Here is the After. 

 The biggest change you can see is the granite counters.

  We replaced the Pepto pink laminate with Black Onyx granite with a square edge.  We retiled the backsplash ourselves.  You can see where we removed the shelf over the oven and tiled with the decorative inset.  We learned a lot while we worked on this house!  

We refinished the cabinets with a darker gel stain and replaced the brass hardware with satin nickel. The green on the walls was all wallpaper.  That was a joy to remove!  We painted SW Ivoire which is a pale yellow.  

We kept the Fridge and the existing ovens but replaced the stove, dishwasher and installed a new sink and faucet.  I went to the clearance section (or the scratch and dent section as I call it) to get the best prices.  

This is a close-up on the backsplash.  We weren't quite finished yet as you can see the outlet covers are still off and  the cabinets were not stained yet.  I was contemplating knobs at the time and ended up going with the nickel pulls instead.

 I guess I was just over excited to even get CLOSE to being finished!  We bought all of the field tiles at a dusty old Surplus Warehouse.  We got a great price.  The accent tiles were purchased at Home Depot.  Many a night and weekend were spent at Home Depot.  We rented a wet saw to cut all the tiles and we dry fit everything after laying it all out on the floor on a board to measure it first.  

You can see the new sleek Thermador stove top in this picture.  It was almost seemless with the counters.  

The After of the Hearth Room.

  We removed all of the wallpaper (so tedious),

 had all of the hardwood floors resanded and stained darker, Refinished the cabinet and the mantle, and painted all the the walls and the trim.  

When you are flipping a house you don't always have the luxury of a total remodel due to time constraints and budget.  I feel that we created the biggest impact for the least amount of money in the shortest amount of  time. 

Whew, I'm tired just reliving it!  

There's a lot more so I'll continue on later.

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves,

XO Cindy

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