Cole the Flip House: Week 3

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!  

It's been a difficult week to find focus.  We still are without a usable office thanks to the fallen ceiling and working to get it at the very least cleaned up..... but luckily, things are chug chugging steadily along on the flip.

The most fun visual progress was the chopping down of the gigantic bushes in the yard and you can now SEE the house!!!  I cannot express to you how truly massive the bushes were!

The unfortunate result of this, however is now half the yard is covered in chopped down brush, so I need to find someone to haul it away and grind some stumps for me.

Inside, a bit more demo got buttoned up including the doorways for the new jack & jill powder room upstairs.

The wall that will separate the landing at the top of the stairs and powder room is temporarily down, but this will be the powder room!  It may not look like much at the moment, but the new owners will thank me when they don't have to go downstairs and across the house when they wake up in the middle of the night.

I always love discovering things in houses- the older the better!  This time, once the future bathroom walls got demo'ed and you could see the back of old wallboard, this tag was visible.  Very specific directions for how to install the product.  "Be Sure to Place this Side Against Studs and Joists"

Next week promises to see lots of mechanical progress.  HVAC, plumbing, and electrical should all start going in!

Have a fantastic weekend!!

Cole the Flip House: Week 2

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!  

It's Monday.  This post was supposed to be Friday.  I have no excuse except life.  I've been a bit off my game for the past few days.  Starting with discovering Thursday morning that a large chunk of my office ceiling had fallen overnight and we currently can't use the office until we get it cleaned up/fixed.  Friday I learn that my elderly office landlord passed away earlier in the week (putting the ceiling cleanup in an indefinite limbo) and I had to pick a sick baby up from daycare (just a cold which was making him wheezy, but he promptly shared his cold with me).  On Sunday, my head was finally out of it's cold fog, and I realized that I still haven't given you an update of this week's flip progress!

So for the flip!!

The job site was relatively quite this past week.  I was able to get both cabinets and appliances ordered on Massachusetts tax free weekend, so that's a bit of a cost savings (yay!).  With cabinets that needed to get ordered, I'm starting to devise a plan for this kitchen.  As far as any actual work done, a bit happened.  Outside, a few bushes got trimmed before the yellow jackets got very angry.

And inside, temporary walls went up while my contractor got the structural beam up between the kitchen and dining room.

Now, no wall!  There will ultimately be a peninsula in that spot, but the openness will remain!

I'm hoping the non-pretty, expensive-but-very-necessary things like electrical and hvac get started this week!  I'll let you know Friday!

Have a great week!!

Cole the Flip House: Week 1

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!  

I love when demo happens.  I'm not Chip Gaines level giddy about demo, but it's still one of the most exciting steps of a flip.  It means that things are really starting to happen and the house is going to transform!  My contractors made quick work of some ceiling and walls in the past few days.

This is currently my favorite view so far.  They got rid of a non-load bearing wall to open up the living room to the dining room.  We will be opening up the middle wall there between the kitchen and dining to add a peninsula, but that wall is load bearing, so it will need supporting before it can go away.  I'm also going to be closing up the doorway that currently passes from the living room into the kitchen.  It will all make sense when you see it!

I am in LOVE with this wallpaper.  It was hiding under the 60s paneling in the living room.  It's adhered to the plaster pretty well, so I most likely won't be able to actually save a chunk of paper, but you can bet your britches that I'll be taking a few really good pics of this paper for posterity (and maybe to frame).

This view is from the kitchen.  The chimney will have to stay, but the hvac vent is getting relocated so I can open up that wall and have a peninsula to connect the kitchen and dining room.

The bathroom (off the kitchen) has been stripped down as well.  And because my contractors know me and don't want to make me cry, they kept all the old trim that was on the walls that got removed so that we can reuse it wherever possible.  Antique trim > modern trim.  x 1000.  That's my personal stance at least.

Still to partially come down is the wall between the stairs and living room.  It actually seems like a partial renovation was done not all that long ago (as you can see by the drywall vs plaster).  Essentially the wall is coming down where the drywall is and to the right including the doorway.  Hasta la vista!

My goals if for this to be the largest feeling 900sf home you ever saw!  No major demo happened upstairs since we aren't removing or relocating any walls.  The more exciting part up there will be when we run plumbing for the new powder room.

Aside from demo this week, I also got started on kitchen planning.  Since MA has a tax free weekend this weekend, I'm hoping to take full advantage of it and get all the cabinets and appliances ordered!  I'm going wood for most of the cabinets and white (or maaayyyybe gray) for the few upper cabinets that we have which is only 3.  Trying to re-inject some vintage charm!

Have a fantastic weekend!!