Rehab I Just Finished Up This Week

Dustball

My dad and I are getting into rehabbing houses and here's some before/after pics of the house we just finished up. I did the majority of the work with my dad handling the patching and painting. Electrical, plumbing and HVAC was subbed out. Originally was 3 small bedrooms and one bath- converted two of the bedrooms into one larger master bedroom with a master bath and walk-in closet. Finished the entire basement for an additional two bedrooms and bath.

Overall, we're very pleased. We may have gone overboard in some areas but we felt that we wanted/needed to build it in a way that we'd have no problems living there ourselves. Feedback would be much appreciated, thanks


Kitchen








Dining area




Main level bath






Living room




Master bedroom-closet wall removed and door relocated. Right door used to be the door to the other bedroom, now it's a walk-in closet)




Master bathroom. I'm a little disappointed in how the shower floor tiling turned out but it'll do.

Dustball

Basement family room










Basement bath




Hallway, door at the end leads to the new master bedroom




Laundry room




Electrical closet, I did the low voltage wiring and setup.




Outside window well cleanup.

send_it_all

Looks really nice to me. Very clean. I would like to see light valance and crown on the kitchen cabinets, but looks like you did a great job...hope you make money on it....You are going to sell, i assume?

Dustball

Thanks for the comments. I did think about crown on the cabinets but didn't think it was value-added. That doesn't mean I won't add them, I still may do that. It's going on the market this week. Hoping to make some money on it, not expecting a lot of profit.

send_it_all

Then don't worry about the crown..A potential buyer might not even notice. Not trying to say anything bad about your work, but it looks like kind of a budget oriented house. The work looks great....just budget materials. Am I wrong?

AtlanticWBConst

Very impressive, nice work.

I'm sure that you maybe realize this already; your grout lines don't match up in the shower area (floor to walls)....you were probably trying to get the drain centered on the floor tile layout....

...other than that, looks virtually flawless...nice work.

BTW - Is this a flip house? Is it your own property?

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Dustball

No, you are not wrong. This house is on the low end of the mid-range budget for houses around here. Around here, low end would be in the 140-170 price range and mid-range would be in the 240-300 price range. This house will be in the low 200's. Total budget for the house was right around $50k and this included a new 2 car garage as well since there was no garage at all. There's no way I'd buy a house without a garage with our weather so that's why we had one built.

Dustball

Yep, that was exactly right. The floor drain was not centered. That's one of the things I'll be checking for next time. This is a flip house owned by my dad and I. I really wouldn't mind living there seeing as my own house is 1/3 of the size but the yard isn't big enough to park all of my trucks and toys that I currently have.

AtlanticWBConst

Good luck dustball...hope you do well on the sale and returns....

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Cole

Wow, fantastic job!

Keep up the great work!

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Dustball

Thank you, I appreciate it.

drywallet

NICE FLIP. THAT BABY WAS TRASHED

747

I going to honest. First OUTSTANDING COLOR CHOICES FOR THE WALLS. Except i don't care for the yellow in the basement. Should have went with taupe. Also why did you go with black appliances in stead of stainless steel. Black looks good but stainless is hot at the moment. Finally excellent job. Everything looks clean and crisp. Personally i think you did a excellent job with color choices in all the other rooms that the basement just rubs me the wrong way. Let me stress again how excellent of a job you did on color choices in the other rooms. All in all the place looks so good if i lived in st paul i would hire you in a second to gut the interior of my house.

Ps. Can i ask how much your going to put it on the market for?

Dustball

Thanks, I didn't think I'd be good at picking colors. I am nowhere close to an artist/designer. Upstairs is a color called dinosaur grey- depending on the light, it'll either look greenish or greyish. Downstairs the yellow is called sawdust and it actually looks better in person than in the pictures. The downstairs bathroom is called dill green and I wasn't sure how it'd look but it turned out really nice.

I went with black over stainless due to cost. It just so happened that I got the nearly new fridge and dishwasher off craigslist for less than half of new cost. Absolutely nothing wrong with them- story behind them was that the owner bought the house with the new fridge and DW and decided to upgrade all his appliances to stainless a few months after moving in.

We listed the house a couple days ago at $235,900. My dad is a real estate agent and licensed CPA so he'll handle all of the financials and paperwork for our company. I'll handle the business of the house rehabs.

We just had an offer accepted yesterday for a house and will be closing in June. That house will be a challenge for us but I look forward to it. I'll be starting with a blank slate by tearing down to the studs and floor joists in the half of the house that contains the kitchen/dining/mechanicals. Here's some teaser pics- http://ylobronc.users.superford.org/lakestcroixbeach/

Cole

Yowza, keep us updated on the new progress.

It looks like a fun little job.

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send_it_all

Wow. That's kind of a mess. I want one. Looks like you'll have something to do for about the next few months.

Teetorbilt

Nice job!

Please don't think that I'm criticizing but hiring an ID is some of the best money that you can spend. Give them your budget, intent (flipping) and let them put together the package. The one that I would have chosen for that job would charge me about $300, the job would go from nice to WOW! and I'd be asking another $10 to 20K for the house.

BTW, you want an Interior Designer, NOT Decorator. BIG difference.

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dkillianjr

Very nice job! I would deffinetly live there. In my neck of the woods everybody is flipping and rehabing and all of a sudden they become a contractor I know you don't wanna spend a whole lot but some of the ones ive seen werent fit for a rat

Dave

MattCoops

Now your goal is to sell it faster than it took you to work on it.

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AHS

Wow, real nice!! I am rehabbing a house with a very similar floor plan right now. I am curious where you put the stairway at. Mine is between the kitchen & livingroom in the midle of the house. I'm trying to figure out where I can move it to open up the floor plan.