Halleluiah!!

WE are just about done with this monster. It's been the house from HELL. I think that maybe it's because bad people lived there, and their aura is still around. Whatever the reason, I hated working on this house. Let's get it sold and on to the next!!

Flip House on Sixth

We went shopping this weekend and found some great bargains for the house. We got a stainless flattop electric stove for $398 and a fridge for $478. We found some beautiful glass mosaic tiles for the backsplash for $3/sq ft... which is super duper cheap! So the kitchen is just about done as far as "planning" goes. Now we just have to execute it. The living room has paneling over plaster.. I was just going to paint it all, but have decided to sheetrock instead. Lots more work, but much much nicer finished product. Our biggest dilemma is the bathroom. It's so tiny, and configured so poorly. We looked for a shorter tub this weekend and much to our surprise they are almost twice as much in price as the 60" ones. How stupid is that?? I'm not sure how we will proceed, but I'll keep you up to date as we move forward. Until then....

For living and dining room For Kitchen For Upstairs Bedrooms

New Flip

We signed the papers yesterday, so it's official. We bought another house. It's a 3 bedroom (if you can call them bedrooms) 1 bath house. It was horribly neglected and needs much TLC, elbow grease, bleach and other help too numerous to mention here. As always, I'll keep any of you that are even mildly interested abreast of the progress.

We are leaving for the holiday weekend, so we won't get much done in the next couple of days, but Michael is heading over this morning to put some heat on and do some preliminary cleaning. He's so sweet. He knows I have trouble with bodily fluids, so he'll remove that before I have to go in there. Some of it is spider and bug shit... and some might be human! Yikes!

My plan is to do the kitchen in white and granny apple green... we'll see if that color is too overpowering though. The dining area I'm thinking a blue/green/grey color and probably will use that in the living room too. I need some inspiration on a bathroom color. It's very small and very dark... so it needs to be jazzed up.

Upstairs, there are two bedrooms, one with a skylight. I want to stage one of the rooms as a nursery, but will stick with a neutral paint color, and the other room is the master, so I'll paint that something modern and fun. Not sure what, yet!

Photo's, color palettes, countertop and mosaic tile samples to come soon!! Stay tuned!

Update

WE think we have the bank agreeing to cleaning that basement AND ripping out the old carpet and cabinets. That will save us a good couple days of work at least, not to mention barfing. 

On we go! Now to get the farm house finished before we close on the new one....

We have GOT to be crazy!

Well, we went to look at the new flip house last night and we ARE going to make an offer on it. It's got a lot of potential, and not a lot of work, although more then we originally anticipated. It needs a new roof and furnace. Otherwise it's pretty much cosmetic with a bit of demo in the bathroom.

THAT room needs to be reconfigured. It's sTuPiD the way it is.

We are going to ask the bank to hire a professional cleaning company to clean the

 basement along with our offer.

WARNING: Do not view the photos below if you have a week stomach or are eating.

 The basement is disgusting!

Kitchen

Bathroom Sink



Dining Room

Bedroom 1 of 3

Living Room

Hell

Drunken Hell

Bathtub

Sunroom

The Sun Room is finally done! Carpet went in today and it smells and looks so nice now. It's going to be a great spot to relax and "sun" ourselves in the winter...

Before

After