Cole the Flip House: Week 9

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  If you’re new here (Hello!!!) or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 7 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride as I jump into flip #8!!!  Check out previous posts about this house here and follow along on my insta-stories for more behind the scenes goodness! This post may contain affiliate links.  For more information, see my disclosures here. Posting today from my iPad as my new MacBook starts up from my old computer back-up. Apparently spilling water on my computer a year ago makes a computer cranky and I've been working on borrowed time ever since.

I'm super excited for this weeks progress!! Cabinets AND tile!

There will be crown molding, tile backsplash and all the good stuff. Can't you just see it? The fridge will be in the corner right by the door.

As is reality when doing a renovation, we need to wait for replacements on several damaged things. The tall panel to go next to the fridge came in chipped and multiple boxes of tile were delivered shattered. Luckily it won't hold anything else up!

When in the kitchen, you can now see into the dining room where a wall used to be. This is the biggest difference in the house! The stove will be in the corner where the old pass-through into the living room used to be.

Right off the kitchen is the main bath and I'm loving the floor!

I also decided to be a rebel and go for 4x8 subway tile instead of my usual 3x6. Huge difference right?? Ok maybe not, but still a nice, clean, modern refresh.

Now that the cabinets are unboxed, you can see the dining room once again (mostly).

In the living room and throughout the main floor, wood floors got patched in.

Additionally this week, the plethora of stumps in the yard got ground down.

I'm still trying to make a few decisions including backsplash tile. I'm loving this patterned tile. I'm thinking the off white (which matches the upper cabinets) in the navy's pattern. My debate lies in the tile behind the stove. A large part of me wants to do navy in the same pattern just behind the stove but I can't decide if it will read too dark. I'll post on insta-stories for you to weigh in!

Be prepared for even more progress next week including countertops and more tile! My contractor is shooting to get the painter started in a little over a week! The end is looking good to be able to list this house in just a month!!

Have an amazing weekend!

Cole the Flip House: Week 8

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  If you’re new here (Hello!!!) or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 7 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride as I jump into flip #8!!!  Check out previous posts about this house here and follow along on my insta-stories for more behind the scenes goodness! This post may contain affiliate links.  For more information, see my disclosures here.  

WE HAVE WALLLLLLLSSSSS!!!!!!

And LOTS and LOTS of boxes.

The moment the wall plastering was done, the kitchen cabinets and appliances got delivered, filling the empty space right back up.  Frankly, it was impossible to get pictures of the plastering around the boxes.  Just check out the dining room!

My contractors have wasted no time and have already started unboxing and laying out the kitchen today, so I'll have some sneak peeks on insta this coming week.

Upstairs is looking much more polished as well (and less filled with boxes) with all of it's new drywall and plaster.  The smaller room got a thin coat of drywall and plaster over it's damaged plaster walls and the larger room which was already drywalled just some patching and drywall on it's new closets.

Things that I didn't get a picture of that also happened this week are:

• a new furnace got installed
• the piles of brush got removed from the yard at long last
• tile and vanities and light fixtures started arriving.

From here on out, there's going to be progress in leaps and bounds for the next few weeks!  Tiling should be starting next week along with kitchen install and interior doors.  I can't wait!!!  If you haven't already, pop on over to todays insta-story where I'm asking your opinion about what grout to use in the main bathroom.  I still have several things that I need to figure out design-wise as well!  Medicine cabinets, hall lights, kitchen backsplash tile, and a few others!  Now that the finish work is starting, the end is in sight!!

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Cole the Flip House: Week 6 & 7

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  If you’re new here (Hello!!!) or just enjoy walking down memory lane, you can see my 7 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride as I jump into flip #8!!!  Check out previous posts about this house here and follow along on my insta-stories for more behind the scenes goodness! This post may contain affiliate links.  For more information, see my disclosures here.  

The past few weeks have been painfully slow for outward progress.  That doesn't mean things haven't been moving along, though.  I was trying to wait until doors were installed last week to post, but it escaped me since we didn't have new doors until Friday afternoon.  After a lengthy battle with a nest of wasps that had taken up residence inside the wood below the front door, Cole now has 2 snazzy new exterior doors that I need to decide on a color for!

Meanwhile inside, insulation was added wherever needed, vent fans were added into the bathrooms, and inspections started happening!

With a building permit, you need to get rough sign-offs for things inside the walls before they close them up so the town knows that things are being done properly.  Electrical, plumbing, framing, and insulation were all signed off on so now we can get to drywalling!!!  The drywall boards have been delivered and should start going up today!!!!!!!!!!  I'm excited for this step.  Can you tell??

Appliances and kitchen cabinets are getting delivered next Thursday, so we're really full steam ahead now!!  Walls are always the turning point from a house in destruction to one that looks livable.  As I was starting to get antsy wanting to see the 'pretty' progress, I set at ordering tiles, vanity, and light fixtures.  We have a very tight budget on this one since we're paying a bit more to have my contractor manage sub-contractors (which I have done in the past and just don't have time to do now), so I'm counting every penny.  You should know by now, however, that while I am cost conscious, my goal is for the finished product not to look like it!

In the bathroom, even though I've decided to stick to my go-to subway tile shower to conserve budget, I've ordered a much more exciting floor tile!  I need to figure out if I'll be able to use a vintage medicine cabinet that I have in the storage unit, but I'm going for a vintage cafe vibe in here.  Cafe bathroom?

Light // Vanity // Floor Tile // Accessories // Shower Curtain

I haven't landed on a backsplash tile for the kitchen just yet because all the ones I'm drawn to are over what is currently budgeted.  I'm hoping I can shuffle a few numbers to make it happen, though!  With drywall on it's way, next week should bring some exciting progress!!  My contractor assures me that we're still on track to be finishing up hopefully the end of October.  If you know anyone who will be looking for a new home soon in my area, send them my way!!

Have a fantastic fall weekend!