Buck’s Flip House Update!

I shared earlier this summer that my friend, Buck, was renovating a flip house (see all before pics there) here in Atlanta, inside the perimeter.  It’s in the Riverside area on the West side of Atlanta.  Sort of a sketchy area, but on the cusp of the Westside design district, so not far from lots of shops and restaurants.  So, today I’m back with a little update.

Buck thought he would be finished with the flip house in 2 months, which would be the middle of this month, but as with most renovations, things don’t always go as planned.  Sometimes there are carpenters with attitudes who just can’t get along and so after working with his long-time carpenter for the start of this renovation, they ended up parting ways and he’s looking for someone else who can finish this project.  And he’s over budget too!

So it goes with home renovations!  You can have ideas, budgets, and timeframes for projects to get completed, but you don’t always have control over the outcome and certainly not people.  But Buck has a great attitude and will persevere until the end is in sight. I stopped over recently for an update of the flip house. It’s looking good and I think Buck has made some great design choices in this small little 1950’s home.

Here’s the house for reference.  Buck hasn’t done anything yet on the outside, but plans to paint the whole thing and spruce it up a bit from the state it is in now.  He pulled back the vinyl siding in hopes of tearing it off and redoing the old wood siding, but it looks like that just will not fit in the budget for flipping, so he will paint it all the same color for continuity.  He may have a few other outdoor plans as well, so that will be fun to see.

Buck has a great attitude about life and takes this flip house all in stride. What are you gonna do?  Go with the flow!

He wants to keep the cover on the carport and spruce it up too.  He said to ask you all what he should do to this space, so chime in with ideas if you have them! He’s trying to keep the costs down, but make it look better.  I thought he should at least cover those metal poles in a wood casing, that would make them look good and he’s already thought of that. And he thought about adding an awning of some sort to the front to dress it up a bit.

Ideas??

The back area has a little covered porch and I think he’s taking this roof off and leaving it open.

Inside the front door, this picture window is nice in front of the house in the living room.  It’s not a big house at all, but now has 2 bedrooms and 2 baths.

The big opening in the wall from the living room to the kitchen looks really good, creating a more open concept space.  No progress yet on kitchen cabinets.  But the floors were replaced in there.  He discovered hardwoods, but they didn’t match the other hardwoods, so those came out and oak was put in so that it can all be stained and finished at the same time.

The opening has been cased out with trim so looks much better.

Crown molding has been added throughout the house which really makes it look nice too.

Little details like molding make a huge difference in a small house like this.

From the living room, looking into the hallway and the first bath. Those floors were replaced too and all of this will be sanded down, stained and refinished all together.

You can see this was where all that nasty carpet came together when I first showed the house.  He had to fill in extra hardwoods in areas where it was missing under the carpet.

Hall bathroom #1 is looking so much better with marble basketweave tile and white subway tile in the tub.  He discovered a covered up window in here when they began renovations, so he added glass blocks in that space.  Love how it lets light in now.

I’d love to do something like this in my master bath one day with new tile floors and a tiled shower.  Maybe next year!  

Bedroom #1 is coming along with hardwoods being pieced in where there was damage.

The closet has been widened and made bigger in here with bifold doors.

This little room was originally the 2nd bedroom and sometime along the way, a 3rd bigger bedroom was added just past here on the right.  So, Buck annexed part of this space for a nice little walk-in closet for the master and kept this room open for maybe an office space or something like that.  I can totally see this working for an office space.  I had an office nook once and this is much bigger than that.

I didn’t take a picture, but Buck also added a nice closet in here and a space for a stackable washer and dryer, all behind closed doors.  It’s just to the left in this picture on that wall heading to the master bedroom (behind the bedroom door).   I’m standing in the master in this shot looking back towards that small room. 

Here’s the master, not a huge space, but big enough.

This is the Before shot of this bathroom space.  Now a long bathroom is in this space and it works, space wise.  

There was a long closet in here originally and Buck decided to turn it into the bathroom. He had originally planned to do the bath where the closet is now, but flipped that idea into this.  I like it!

Toilet is to the left, then the sink in the middle and the shower to the right.

The shower is nice with white subway tile, all the way to the ceiling.  He’s decided to swing this door out to the bedroom to save space as well.

So, that’s an update on Buck’s flip house.  Of course, when he’s all finished with it, I’ll go back and shoot it and share it all with y’all!  Buck will be stopping by my Open House on September 19th, so if you make that, you might get to meet him.

Hope you all have a wonderful  Labor Day weekend!  I’m heading to Destin, FL on Thursday with a girlfriend of mine and we can’t wait for our little get away.  I’ll be blogging about that too. We are staying on the beach in a beautiful high-rise condo.  Destin is one of my favorite places to go and by far my favorite beach in Florida!

I know many of you have wondered when I’m going to show more of Ruby’s house, now that she is in.  She was trying to get her main level mostly decorated before I started taking pics, but as we know it takes awhile to get a new house completed, so I’m hoping to go ahead and do some photos and show the progress thus far very soon!

 

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