The basement was totally unfinished when we bought the house. We decided to finish half of it and leave the other half for utilities and storage.
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Wahooooooo! Mike and I finished The Engagement House in late April, put it on the market on April 25th, and received a full price offer the next day! However, in the world of real estate, things aren’t always so easy.
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It’s time to paint the exterior of our current renovation house! The house is half siding and half brick, so I wanted to paint it no matter what, but we were forced into it after we bricked in the back patio door and a window and our mason couldn’t find a matching brick.
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Mike and I sold our first remodel house in December of 2017 and were on the hunt for our next one. We spent some time doing research online and compiling a list of houses that were options.
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We went right to work on the exterior because it was warm outside when we bought the house. In the front, we replaced the porch columns with updated columns, cut down the overgrown landscaping, repaved the asphalt driveway, and installed a new garage door.
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Right before we closed on the house, we did a final walkthrough. When we got to the house, we realized there was no power and as a result the basement had flooded.
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The house had a very small galley kitchen when we bought it, and we knew right away that we wanted to move the kitchen elsewhere. Once we figured out the kitchen would move to the family room, we had a great space for a new hallway, a laundry room, and a half bathroom.
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