Life with B & A (&D): Hosue

9/18/08

Our first house part II

The other major renovation in our first house was the basement . The basement originally was a site for sore eyes and was to say the least very scary!!! The carpet in the upstairs living room was a nasty green color that was stained and before we could even move in we painted and B cleaned the carpets at least 5 times. The carpets were so nasty that the water coming out was black....Yes TMI I know, but it had to be said! Here are some before and after pics.

The basement before....

The basement bedroom before..

We took out a large beam in the ceiling and the stell poles in the middle of the room, put up sheet rock, baseboard, painted and laid carpet.

Basement bathroom mis way through, it was way too scary to show before pics

Basement living room after....It was Christmas time

B wouldn't move so I could take pics

B tiled around the wet bar and built the wet bar from scratch, no model or help!

Looking towards the bedroom & bathroom

Bedroom all done!

We even had a walk in closet. We took down the paneling, added a closet, put up sheet rock, baseboard, painted and carpeted.

B built the cupboard for the towels, there was very little storage before.

This was sheet rocked, new potty, vanity, tiled, painted and base board added

Vanity & medicine cabinet from Menards

I think overall it turned out pretty well! I was proud of our hardwork and B's ability to finish it by himself!
Have a wonderful Thursday! Cheers! Abby

9/16/08

Our first house!!!

Before B and I moved to St. Louis we owned a single family home in Iowa. We flipped the whole house in a little over 2 years. With some determination and Brendan's know how and some help from our family we were able to complete the project, move to St. Loius and sell the house within a month of moving. Here is our journey flipping a house...

I won't make this post super long so I will be doing this in a two part post. First the outside and the kitchen!! Two large projects...See what ya think!

The side before it was painted. We had to sand the cedar siding, fill it, sand again, prime and paint...can you say PAINT IN THE ASS!!! Brendan, myself and my mother in law did 99% of this!

After it was all painted and ready to go on the market!

This was one of the happiest days of my life!

The back before and after the ugly fence and the deck being built by Brendan

The kitchen was a complete overhaul! It was a scary scary yellow when we moved in! The cupboard were in bad shape and all the appliances needed replaced! So we overhauled it and were very happy with the results! We were very lucky to have all the new appliances given to us by my family members that were getting rid of them! So for free we got a dishwasher, an oven and a cooktop. Can't beat that! Here are spme before and after pics...