Nessie the Flip House: Week 16

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Check in each Friday to see weekly update of how this house progresses!  To catch up on the progress on Nessie, check out her previous posts here.  If you’re new here (Hello!!!),  or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 6 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!! I love this point in flips where every step is now a visible piece that makes the house look more finished.  Drywall last week was awesome, but this week, the beginning of painting REALLY means things are starting to look like a livable space once again!  Everything is primed!  It is going to be white ultimately but not so stark.  Simply White will be a great backdrop for my blue cabinets- you haven't forgotten about those have you??

And while 100% necessary, I was hoping that we weren't going to have to totally replace the boiler, but we did. Let me let you in on our thought process here: the old boiler was repairable, but not cheap.  For about an extra 2k, we were able to get a new one all together.  While we didn't want to spend the extra 2k on a budget that already much higher than we originally hoped, we realized that if we plan to ask over half a million for this house (and we do! location location location!!!), buyers were going to want to see all new.  New boiler, new ac,  new electrical, new.  So we did.  The little, rusty, old one is chillin in the front right of the pic (and has since been removed completely) and the new one is all red, shiny, new, and WORKS.  Hooray for heat!

The item that I'm most excited about, however, is the thing that was the quickest so far this week- getting started on painting the exterior!!!!  Aside from today, there was only 1 non-rainy day all week, however the painters were able to make HUGE progress!  No more pukey yellow beige!  They still have doors and trim to paint, but my goodness what a difference this made already!!

The color looks super blue in the pic, but it's more of a blue/gray that should look a bit different in different lights.  I am looking forward to getting rid of the red on the door now, though.  I know that some of you might love the pop of red, but the colors are feeling very traditional right now.  The new door color- Dorset Gold, will hopefully take the house to a more modern place.

Next week should just keep building and compound on this week's exciting progress.  I'm expecting to see more paint, some finished floors, and hopefully some tile!!  Each day is a step closer to completion!

Have an awesome weekend!!!

Nessie the Flip House: Week 15

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Check in each Friday to see weekly update of how this house progresses!  To catch up on the progress on Nessie, check out her previous posts here.  If you’re new here (Hello!!!),  or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 6 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

This house's curb is well on it's way to being appealed.  Window = GAME CHANGER!  Before I show you the exterior this week, I think it's about time for a reminiscing look back to what the front of the house looked like when we bought it this summer.  Tiny windows, dead tree, lopsided focus, broken brick retaining wall and end of walkway.

In a perfect world, we'd be able to put on a front porch which would be SO sexy on this house, but in the reality of flipping, I don't have 3+ months to try and get the plan approved by the town due to how close it is to the street.  I'm settling for a little exterior work and painting the house instead.  The big change this week was finishing of the new picture window on the left, and relocating the window that was originally in that spot into the bedroom on the right.  Now the house no longer feels lopsided and feels like it's always been this way!

The window also has a huge impact on the bedroom inside- making it brighter and more open.  It's pretty awesome to see what a bit of sun can do to a room.

If it wasn't for the sudden cold days that appeared here out of nowhere (you'd think it was November or something...) the exterior of the house would be half painted already, but's looking like early next week for paint instead.

Meanwhile on the rest of the inside, people have been buzzing away (not me yet, but I have my lists).  Handy Dad replaced the powder room/laundry window that was half dryer vent previously with frosted safety glass.

Did you pick up on the other HUGE bit of progress this week?  DRYWALL!!!!!  Lots and lots of drywall!

Oh and did I mention it has a kitchen now?  It's all still boxed up, but I promise you, that's a kitchen!

And just so I don't think things are going toooo smoothly, when the plumber came to get the heat back up and running, the furnace decided NOPE.  Now we're waiting to see if it's more cost effective to repair or replace.  Until then, the drywall guys brought in their own solution- a propane heater to help keep things warm and allow all the drywall compound to dry properly.

Don't worry, they only have the heater fired up when they're there.  No one is burning my house down on my watch!  Hopefully things will keep humming along next week and we get to see some exterior paint, baseboard and trim installations, and if things go according to plan, we may even see some interior priming and painting.  Crossing my fingers that with the new walls in place everything else can start falling into place too.

Have an amazing weekend!!

Nessie the Flip House: Week 14

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Check in each Friday to see weekly update of how this house progresses!  To catch up on the progress on Nessie, check out her previous posts here.  If you’re new here (Hello!!!),  or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 6 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

It's taken 14 weeks, but this house has finally turned a corner!  We have insulation, we have repaired exterior trim pieces, we have a new wood floor in the kitchen and the previously wood-less bedroom, we have a new window, and we have sign-off from the town on all the rough inspections, so we ALSO have the beginning of drywall!!  This is the week I've been waiting for and things are finally starting to look like something!  I haven't been on top of the schedule as much as I normally am, but somehow yesterday ended up being a day when all of my contractors were buzzing around.  Handy Dad commented "it looks like someone kicked an anthill."  I'll take it!  It means that I'll be able to see this house get sold at some point!!

And since you've been patiently waiting for pictures, here you go!

Aren't fresh wood floors just a beautiful sight?

Check out the bowling alley!

And if you just look at the pic above, it looks like it's almost done, but it still has a long (pun intended) way to go.

The front of the house is getting a bit of love finally too.  A new picture window went in the living room side, and the window that was removed (which matches the other windows in the house) will be getting installed on the right side of the house in the master bedroom.  In addition to the window, the rotten wood gutters were removed and facia boards were repaired.

Hopefully all the exterior work will be done early next week and we can get to painting!!!!  This house needs some exterior love and if I can't give it a porch or portico, the least I can do is paint.  I think I've settled on some colors too: Ben Moore Cloudy sky for the body of the house and going bold but not too bold with a Dorset Gold door.

I still have so much planned for this house that I can't wait for you to see!!  I have a few personal projects up my sleeve, but I've been waiting for this house to be... well a house again... before I can get my own hands dirty.

Have a stellar weekend!