Pepperdine Flip

Pepperdine is probably by

far our easiest flip.

I think that from now on, this is the type of home we will

look for and we also liked the area.

Very nice neighbors, of course, how can I say this,

all the neighborhoods had great neighbors.

But this one especially did.

We really only had to paint, new floors, and update kitchen 

cabinets and bathroom cabinets.  In the end we did 

need to replace the HVAC.  We decided to replace the old

appliances and kitchen counter-tops and backslash.

The outside did get some updated paint colors on the

trim and front of the house.

I really wish all flips were this easy.

It could have been done in 3-4 weeks,

but alas the painters took way to long to paint the 

inside of the house.  It took 6 weeks.

Here are the before pictures.

Dining Room

Family Room

Kitchen
We took out a small corner of the wall here
so it would open the kitchen and breakfast
area to the family room



Kitchen
All the cupboard doors came off
we created a shaker door front on all the doors
and the drawers.


Master Bedroom

Master Bathroom

Now the finished house

This honestly is one of my favorite flips.

I wish we lived in this cute house,

it was sold to a cute couple expecting their first baby.

Here is the entry.

We installed beautiful bamboo flooring, which I have recently picked for
another house we are working on.
They are dark but not too dark,

All the walls were painted in Sherwin Williams Mindful Grey.
White trim and white cealings

The entire house flows,
as we ripped out all carpets, and only carpeted the bedrooms.
Everything else is in this beautiful bamboo flooring.
We bought the light fixture on a closeout at lowes
it really is an outdoor light, and had glass in all the sides,
but as we moved it one day, one of the glass panels broke,
I was heart broken, but then decided to take all the panels out of the
fixture and hang it in the dining room.
I love how it turned out!

The family room turned out so nice.
New fan light,  these flips are in the south, so most people
really want fans in their rooms.
We painted the fireplace surround white, and it lightened up the
whole room!
We also had the fireplace bottom tiled with the leftover tiles
from the bathrooms.  Love how it turned out.
All outside doors had to be replaced,
there was rotting around them all.

Here is a different shot of the family room, as a regular photo doesn't show how big

the room actually is, and that it opens to the dinning space and kitchen.

I love the bay window that opens to this family room with 

a space for the table.

The door that is closed in the bay window area goes into the  laundry room

and a door to the outside as well.

The finished kitchen!

Wow!  love how these cabinets turned out!  They were alot of work!

It took 2 of us 2 days to reface them, and fill all the holes and edges

around the outside of the doors and drawer fronts.

We had granite installed and then we installed marble subway tile 

backsplash.  There were 78 cabinet/drawer pulls for the 

entire house.

A tip:  I found these new cabinet pulls from a webside

99centknobs.com

They worked great, and I had a few left over for a different house.

The opposite view of the kitchen that looks into the family room.
We painted the cabinets a Sherwin Williams dark grey.

Breakfast nook,

Kitchen with new appliances

Master bedtoom, also has a bay window in it.

Used the original fan.

Master Bathroom

The new faced cabinets with new drawer pulls.

Framed the original mirror.

I spent a full day strpping the wallpaper from this room!

New light fixture.

We pulled out the bathtub, there is a bathtub in the hall bathroom
and put in a shower, I had the contractor tile this and asked him to stack the tiles
instead of off set the tiles.  I really like the contemporary look.

Hall bathroom with the tub,

Again here is the front of the house, we added some corbels, painted it grey, new light
new front door, and painted the shudders black.

This house sold the second week it was on the market.

It was truly a joy to work on this house,
I wish all of our flips were this easy!!!!

Have a great day!

Robin

Woodsman Flip

There are certainly different seasons in our lives when

 we decide to do something different.

Right now this is what we have been doing.

We meaning my husband Dana and I.

Since August 2014, we have been discussing 

new plans with our son Jeremiah, of working on buying and selling 

houses.  So I started looking for cheap houses in our area to

purchase and flip.  It is a very difficult market where we live,

we even had several homes we put offers in on,

But things just were not working out for us in our home state.

Jeremiah started looking for houses in other areas of the U.S., 

and alas, our partnership formulated and we started buying 

houses together. Two houses to date, we have purchased together.

Jer found 3 houses, one house he bought for a rental,

and 2 houses we purchased together

in the south and our adventure began.

It took a little time to get there, trying to get our schedules together,

and April of 2015 began the trek to our newly purchased houses.

As we were planning this, Jer was sent to Germany for 6 months with

his job, and thus we were able to work together for only one week,

and then Dana and I were on our own to finish the houses.

The first day we were introduced to a contractor, whom we

really like, and we have been working as a team to finish the houses

we purchased. A note here, our contractor was the best thing

we ever found! He is worth his weight in gold!

It took about a month and a half to finish this house, we will name as

the Woodsman house, and get it on the market.

 2 weeks later accepted an offer and we are up and ready 

to finish our first flip, and let the new owner take over.

Well, that was the first buyer, we found out

2 months later that the buyer did not qualify for the loan

and the house went back on the market.

Then 7 weeks later after that we accepted an offer

lower that we had anticipated, and the house

finally sold.

We were able to make a $18,000 profit which was split with our son.

It has been a challenge but at the same time very enjoyable.

I love to decorate, but I also love to work.

Some days we work so hard I get back to the house and crash

Not even thinking there could be anything else to do but stop!

But as a whole we are enjoying this new chapter in our lives.

Here are picture of Woodsman Flip.

                             Outside of House

This house originally had green shudders and pink pillars!

We also added the arch over the front window

purchased at Habitat for Humanity.

                                      Living room

I know these pictures aren't that great, our next few flips are better,

and I will tell you about that experience also as time goes on.

The living area didn't have the arch window or the open doorways,

even though there were doorways there, they were much smaller,

the floors were vinyl, and the kitchen and living area

had 2 separate types of vinyl.

This room turned out awesome, love the floors, and we also had

a contractor come in and scrape the popcorn ceilings and paint for us.

Where the 2 hanging lights over the island now are, there was a

shop light, and none of the lights in the house had boxes in the

wall or ceiling to attach the fixtures to,

so Dana needed to install these for code.

                                               Kitchen

This kitchen looks so awesome now!  It originally was completely wallpapered

in floral/fruit wall paper, as were both bathrooms, laundry room, and closets wallpapered too, but in

different wallpapers.  I spent 3 days just stripping wallpaper!

We used Mindful Grey from Sherwin Williams to paint the walls in the house,

We also had all new cupboard doors made for the kitchen and 

new drawer pulls and knobs for the entire kitchen.

New black granite countertops, and a subway tile backsplash were added

to the kitchen as well.

The house flows really well with the laminate flooring that flows

from the front door through the living room to the kitchen and

all the way to the back door.

We also added the island to the kitchen with granite.

The island is made from 3 white cabinets from Home Depot.

Both bathrooms got new vanity tops and fixtures.

I love how the house turned out.

I will see if I can find some original photos of the inside of the house.

Our first house is a great success!

Here are the before pictures of the house.

The Kitchen, and both bathrooms, laundry room,

and pantry closets were all wall papered.

I have become a wall paper removal expert!!!!

The easiest way to remove wall paper is to buy fabric softener,

add it to water in a bucket, and with a sponge wipe the

water/fabric softener mixture on the wall paper.

Then let it soak in.  Sometimes you have to pull off the original

layer of wall paper, then put the mixture on the underneath

part of the wall paper to wet it then remove with a scrapper.

This room the wall paper pulled right off, but not so in the

bathrooms.  I spent 2-3 days removing wall paper from this house. 

             tearing out arch in kitchen wall

                                 Kitchen

This is the wall we opened up and made an 

arch between the living area and the kitchen.

        Inside living room looking towards kitchen

Here it is in process.

           Inside kitchen looking into living room

House number one finished and sold!

Yeah!!! Success!!

I will share each house as we go!

Robin

I just found some more before pictures!

Kitchen

Kids bathroom

Kitchen looking into laundry, pantry, master bedroom

living room where ladder is

Kitchen

Living room

Master bath