Millie: Week 27

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I learn to navigate through the business of flipping houses.  This flip, Millie is the most challenging and most exciting yet! You can find more about this house and about my 3 previous flip houses here. This was the week I needed at this flip.  Millie finally turned a corner!  More rooms are painted than not, and it's starting to feel like it's going to be a liveable home in the very near future #happydance

All 3 bedrooms are painted, have lights, switches AND outlets!

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And the artist formerly known as the pink room has shiny, polished up floors.  While the first floor hardwoods are getting sanded and refinished, the second floor started out in better shape and just needs some spiffing up.  My very helpful mom volunteered some time this week and made the floor in the newly yellow room shine like the top of the Chrysler building (using the same product that I used to shine up Frankie's floors- Rejuvinate Floor Restorer)

The other rooms still need some floor love but are looking rather spiffy otherwise.

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The upstairs hallway also followed suit with the bedrooms, making the entire 2nd floor close to completion.

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Next we take to the kitchen where not only did the countertops get installed, but the walls got covered in backer board and are ready for tile!

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Against my Realtor's recommendation, I went with black granite and I stand by my choice 110%.  The room is going to get so bright once I install this tile all the way to the ceiling.

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On the other side of the room, I extended the countertop past the cabinet and over the radiator to create a bit of a breakfast bar.

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I'm thinking these IKEA bar stools would fit in perfectly.

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The room that's really making me smile this week is the new master bathroom.  While it's still plumbing-less until next week, the walls are finally 100% done, it has working light fixtures, a medicine cabinet, and a really sexy vanity top.

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I still have to modify the drawers to accommodate the plumbing, but one step at a time here people.

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It's getting pretty awesome in this room, I won't lie.  Remember how it wasn't a bathroom 27 weeks ago?

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I think this room has found it's calling.

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I'm still working on figuring out the right stain combination to match the new door and trim pieces to the existing trim.

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And just so you don't think I'm getting all spoiled with these working lights, outlets and fancy countertops, the living rooms still look like this....

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But, at least the bathroom's pretty!

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Meanwhile at Copper Dot

In the midst of dealing with this crazy winter and my flipping frenzy, I've also been keeping myself busy(er) with my design business, Copper Dot Interiors.  I did a dining room install over the weekend and snapped a few quick shots as I was on my way out that I'm eager to share. My clients hadn't really touched the dining room at all since moving in a little over a year ago and the previous owners clearly hadn't done much since it was built in the 90s.  Don't you just love builder-grade brass chandeliers??

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My clients weren't sure what their style was, but they knew it wasn't this.  Turns out they were looking for a quirky yet sophisticated room with some color that could be used by the whole family (including small children).

There are still a few small tweaks to be made and I'll be getting better pictures when I'm there next, but what a contrast!

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The trim color stayed the same off white since it runs throughout the entire home, but aside from that I was given a blank slate to play with.

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In just switching out the maroon walls for Benjamin Moore's St. John's Bay, the room feels instantly about 5 thousand times brighter.  It's amazing what a swift injection of color can do to a space!

 

Millie: Week 26

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I learn to navigate through the business of flipping houses.  This flip, Millie is the most challenging and most exciting yet! You can find more about this house and about my 3 previous flip houses here. Progress slows a bit when you're fighting the plague.  But, there has been progress! and it's pretty stuff too.

The kitchen cabinets got fully installed and the countertops got templated.  Countertops are getting installed on Tuesday! Then... TILE!

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The biggest visual change this week happened upstairs.  I scrambled to do paint prep (sanding, caulking) so that the painter could do his thing in the 3 upstairs bedrooms and hallway.  Finally, the pink room is no more.

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The hideous louvered bifold closet door also got replaced with a vintage door from the ReStore.

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And the back hallway:

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Well, it's amazing what a little paint can do.  Clearly a little more paint is still needed for that YELLOW window frame.

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In addition to all this, the former master is looking pretty snazzy once again.

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In the midst of all this, I kept myself busy with snow clearing, random patching, caulking, cleaning, more snow clearing, and general stuff that needs to get done but isn't so pretty.

Next week's operative: finish the walls in the new master so we can get fixtures installed and subsequently working plumbing.  Fingers crossed!!