Flipping Houses- A Before and After Story

Warning!  This story can get complicated at times so I hope you can follow along...

As many of you know I am an Interior Designer and a Home Stager.  But what you may not know about me is that I was once part of a Builder/Designer team.  My partner and I built many high end homes in the Kansas area.  We had a great time designing and building fabulous homes until the home market crashed... 

 Not to worry though, we did OK, but we had to get creative. 

 On one occasion we had a home for sale in a great Subdivision that sat and sat and sat, unsold.  

We finally got an offer from a couple that wanted to purchase the home but didn't want to go through the trouble of selling their home.  

We ended up taking their home in trade and they paid the difference

 on the "New" home.  

Still with me?

It wasn't a "Bad" home, just a little neglected and dated.  

So are you ready for the rest of this complicated story? 

 It gets better!  

We "inherited" this house in December and thought "well, we can just get in and turn it around and get it on the market quickly".  

On New Years Day my older boys drove home from our vacation house in Colorado 

to find OUR home totally FLOODED with water everywhere!!!  

It was a total disaster!  (that's a whole other post)

  We had to move out while they renovated our home.  

 Where did we move to?  

 Why the "inherited"  house of course! 

 We spent every day either remodeling what we called the "rehab" house

 or over at our house overseeing the renovation.

  It was a tough 6 months but in the end a very happy story.  

Let me share the Before and After Pictures with you and tell my story room by room.

This was the Living Room or Music Room as you enter the home.

  It was painted a Navy Blue with  old carpet and dated furniture.  

The whole house's color story was kind of dated Jewel tones.

Here is the After. 

 I'm sure this furniture looks familiar. (it survived the flood)  

We painted the trim Basic White and the walls SW Cocoa. 

 I staged it as a sitting room and kept the look minimal for resale purposes.

This is the Dining Room.  

You can see that they were in the process of moving when we took these pictures.

  Red walls, dated drapes with pom-poms, brass light fixture.  

And After.  

Doesn't this look so fresh and new?  

We painted the walls a light teal blue, replaced the carpet, took down the drapes and added these silk green drapes from Tuesday Morning, and I redid the Chandelier.  

Before

After  I sprayed the Brass with an oil rubbed bronze spray paint I then aged it with some Old Masters paint that I had around.  

I changed out the shades with some shades I found with cute fringe

 at a discount store in my area.  

What a great inexpensive change.  

 This is the Before of the Great Room. 

 This room sits in the middle of the house and is the first thing you see from the front door. 

 It was pretty lackluster and boring. 

 But, it had great windows and a nice raised fireplace.

In this picture you can see the front door.  

The dining room is there with all the boxes and the Music room or sitting room is to the right.

And, here is the After.  

Again lots of paint and new carpet. 

 Mr. Beaux retiled the fireplace with tiles that we bought at a discount warehouse

 and we painted the fireplace surround. 

 The color on the walls is SW Latte. 

 It looks greenish in this picture but it's not really.  

Another view. 

 You can see into the Kitchen and Hearth room.  

There is my wine cabinet. 

And another view.

  You see the  stairs leading up to the second floor.  

I got this sectional for a steal of $700.00 and the best part was that it would fit through any doorway with the legs off. 

 I had plans to put it in my son's Bonus room after we sold the house.

There is a lot more to cover in this house.  The rooms I've shown you really just involved paint(that we did all ourselves) and new carpet.  There is a lot more "Do it Yourself" to come.   I hope you will check back for part two of this Saga!

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves

XO Cindy

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