Next up in the bungalow rental property – the kitchen and bathroom. (Check out the living room/dining room and outside updates.) Here’s the kitchen. Before, it had very old base cabinets in a lovely shade of light yellow. No upper cabinets to be seen.What we did: Ripped out the base cabinets and dumped them. […]
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Rental reno – living and dining rooms
Now it’s time to move into the living and dining rooms at the little house. (Wanna see more? Check out the kitchen and outside updates.) It’s really quite charming. Original woodwork, lovely hardwood floors. Although at the beginning, it looked like this: Because I’m a mind-reader, I know what you are thinking – […]
Rental reno – outside and porch
A few of you have asked about our little fixer-upper, which we purchased in December. The first mention of it is here. We got a deal we couldn’t pass up on this foreclosure, plus it was only two blocks from our house. Ryan wanted to try his hand at rental, so we went ahead and […]
Our first flip – split level renovation project
It’s finally time for a new project.
A few months ago, we purchased the house across the street from our current home. It’s a split-level home on about 3 acres of land in the country. The owners (our neighbors) both passed away in the past few years and it has been mostly empty since early 2020. There was an auction held by the estate last fall but it didn’t sell.
The more we have watched the market in our area (homes are selling like hotcakes), the more we thought this home could be a good investment and opportunity to take on a new project.
So we have a new home to work on. And it’s totally different than anything we’ve done before. A split level!
Refreshing your home with clean carpets
It’s not yet spring in my neck of the woods, but the inside of our home was needing a bit of a deep clean. It was especially apparent that our carpets needed a little refresh after we took down all the holiday decor.
Life can be hard on rugs, and our light colored living room rug was looking worse for wear. Even though we are mostly a shoeless home, we LIVE in our home. And our kids and dogs are ROUGH on our carpets. Like, they spill every single thing they bring in there. (And there was a pretty nasty red wine incident on this rug while I was wrapping Christmas presents. The horrors.)
DIY carpet installation on stairs
The basement project continues. Maybe it never ends. I don’t know.
But the most recent completed project makes a huge impact – we finally have carpeting on the stairs going to the basement! With two kiddos (one who’s still a little shaky), having safe stairs is pretty important. And we have found that just having the stairs completed makes us even more likely to go to the basement to play. (And as the temperatures rise, the cool basement will be a wonderful respite.)
We didn’t have a huge budget to finish the basement, and stairs are a fairly straightforward DIY job if you have the right tools. We did have the main stairs in our home professionally installed, but these are used much less and were a great way to save some money. (Ryan has installed carpeting in our rental homes, so it’s not a new skill for him.)
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