Month: June 2019

Painting and Tile Work

The house is really coming together! This is the exciting and fun work where we get to see the design take shape and the house become beautiful once again. Mom, my aunt, and I have been painting the interior ourselves (mostly Mom). She has been working at the house almost everyday painting each room, closet, wall, and ceiling by hand. She has been rolling, brushing, and spraying paint in the bathrooms, bedrooms, hallway, living and dining room. She is amazing!

Last Friday my aunt and I helped her finish the walls in every room. The house is now a clean, modern grey/white color. The bathrooms are a calming, reflective blue/green and the kitchen has a modern distinct black ore accent wall.

Living room painted Egret White
Dining room painted

Master bathroom with Reflecting Pool paint job.

Kitchen with Iron Ore accent wall and new recess lighting!

Besides getting painting done in the house, the tile was installed in both bathrooms. The crew worked very hard and did a beautiful job.

We are very pleased with our tile section and the subtle tile design in the master shower. It is hard to see in the photos but along the back wall of the shower, the subway tile is vertical in rows instead of horizontal brick pattern. Along the side walls and in the niche it is horizontal brick pattern.

Also this week, the new windows were installed by Travis Roofing company. They did beautiful work as well and we are so pleased with the investment.

This weekend on our list of things to do is to finish painting the ceilings and then begin to lay the flooring! Big changes are coming soon.

The cabinets will also be delivered this week and installed next week along with the painting of the exterior of the house (done by professionals, of course).

We are so pleased with how the project is coming along. We still have a long list of little jobs to get done but so far we are still on our timeline for completion by early August.

I still have some shopping to do. I need to purchase the vanity sinks for the bathrooms and a barn door for the master bathroom.

After the interior is shaping up, we do plan to move outside to clean up the yard and add landscaping for more curb appeal. Stay tuned!

Making Real Progress

I am shocked at how much progress as been made at the flip house this month. After the foundation work was complete the projects have just been coming along at a great rate.

The foundation need minor adjustments because the house had already undergone major foundation repair years earlier. Olshan Foundation was the company we went with because they had done the initial work on the house and was the best price for the additional work that needed to be done.

Next the bathroom conversion started to pick up pace. My contractor hired the plumbers to come out and move the toilet and shower over in the hall bathroom in order to add a standing shower in the master bathroom.

The bathroom on the left is the master, while on the right is the hall bathroom. The sheet rock was finished today along with new texture to the walls. We will be able to begin painting the bathrooms this week and then tile will go in next weekend.

The kitchen area is also coming along nicely. The garage door has been relocated to the side wall, opening to the dinning/living room instead of opening to the small kitchen. This now gives us space to relocate the frig to where the door used to be and add a peninsula off of that wall to give more counter and cabinet space. Cabinets will hopefully be coming the week after next. We hope to paint the kitchen next week so that we don’t have to paint around the cabinets.

The hallway ceiling was raised to the regular 8 foot height. The ceiling in the hallway had been dropped to accommodate the duct work for the HVAC unit. We have relocated the HVAC to the attic and rerouted the duct work through the entire house.

The electrician has also been at the house adding recessed lighting in the hallway, living room, kitchen, and bathrooms. He also up-dated switches and plugs throughout the house. We will also have to up-date the breaker boxes to the house as well, a not so glamorous expense.

  • Living room before
  • Living room now

You can see in the photo on the left the wall between the living and dining room. The wall is now gone and the house has a much bigger, open, and brighter feel to it. The sheet rock needed to be repaired in every room. The crew finished re-texturing the walls and ceiling today. I can’t wait to get in there and start painting!

Mom, daughter, and I worked hard today refinishing the doors to the house. To save a few dollars, we have spray painted the handles black and cleaned up the hinges which will also be sprayed black. We repainted the doors a nice bright white to make everything look fresh and new again.

The house is really coming along and things are looking great! I am excited to start to see paint and tile happen. Then windows and cabinets will be next!