The Finished Product!

This week the house was staged on Sunday, put in the MLS on Monday and received a full price offer on Friday! Here are the final pictures with a "before" and "after." See what a difference

staging makes, it's amazing!


The "after" picture of the front with the new garage door, siding and everything with a fresh coat of paint! The landscaping is done but in the shadows. The grass is patchy and we put down some seeding to try and fill in the sparce areas.

The Kitchen before............................................and After. You can see that the original kitchen had a window to the left of the sink which was closed up with drywall. We made the straight kitchen an "L" shape. We moved plumbing and added electrical over the sink and for the stove and diswasher. The new floors are Pergo that we got a terriffic price at Home Depot because they were closing out this color. It looks and feels like real wood floors!




WOW!

Here's the living room before and after we widened the door into the kitchen to open up the house more. The staging actually makes the room look bigger!

The master bath had to be gutted down to the studs. What an amazing transformation!

This is the room just behind the kitchen. It was actually a 2nd kitchen. The doorway you see

here leads into the master bedroom. We think that this was a separate living quarters. We turned it into a laundry room! We had to move plumbing and electrical. Pergo floors here too.

This room is the master bedroom and in picture to the left you can see the doorway to the master bath room. In the picture to the right it shows the closet doors rather than the bathroom to the left. Same window.

This room was the window-less room. We are looking at the same corner where we opened up a doorway into the master bedroom directly behind it. What a clever way to bring in light.

All went smoothly with this project. I had a terriffic contractor and he in turn has an amazing crew! In spite of the 7 snow storms beginning with the first week we closed escrow until we finished, we only went over time by 2 weeks. Without the weather, we probably would have compelted the job in 4 1/2 weeks instead of 6.

Now on to the next project, just as soon as I find it!

Can you believe that since I started this project that we've had 7 snow storms!!! Here's a picutre from my home office window on the morning of April 27th!

The next day it was all gone by noon... that's Colorado for ya.

Here are the last pictures before the job was completed. I'll have new picutres when we stage the house and put it on the market by this weekend.



Obviously, the back of the house with all the new siding on. The house orginally had 4 different kinds of siding. To the right is the back yard entrance into the laundry room which leads into the kitchen. The left side of the house is where the master bedroom and bathroom are. The only entrance into the MBR was through the laundry room (which was a 2nd kitchen!). Now, there is an entrance from the MBR into the bedroom on the opposite wall from the windows because when this was added to the house, it closed up the back window to the 2nd bedroom. Then when the carport was enclosed for a garage, the window on the left side of the 2nd bedroom was closed up so then that bedroom had NO windows. We broke through the wall to add a doorway, then added the door with the glass panels. I hope this makes sense because it's a little hard to describe.



The kitchen new configuration. The empty spot to the left is where the fridge goes. All new cabinets and appliances. The back splash goes all the way up the wall to the cabinets which is a very nice touch. There is Pergo on the floor that has the look and feel of real wood. It fooled the Realtors!

The new laundry room. This is directly behind the kitchen and, where the new cabinets are, there was the old stove and counter tops. This door way leads into the master bedroom. This is the added on portion across the back of the house you saw from the outside in the picture above. Fortunately for us the construction was good so we didn't have to change anything structurally. The Pergo continues into this room from the kitchen. All the bedrooms, hallway, and living room will be in a light colored carpet.

Master Bath off the Master Bedroom. This room was completely gutted and we found some moisture problems behind the old tub surround. We took it down to the studs. Everything in here is new including the window!

That's it for now! Just a sneak peak to the finished product. Every Tuesday morning four of us Brokers tour different neighborhoods looking at listings. We've seen this house in the mid-stages and at this stage and then this week we looked at the competition, or what's currently for sale in this neighborhood. All the Realtors agreed that this house is going to show the best.

Next time I'll post before and after pictures side by side so you can see the big difference!

Progress 3-30-09

In spite of the blizzard and snow, there is progress! It looks worse than before but that's because there are so many tools in the house. Cocoa is a sweet little puppy, not 2 yrs old yet, and she goes to all the job sites and loves attention.

The pictures are backwards! I'll get the hang of this soon.

Top left is the back of the house showing the MBR addition

Top right is the gutted hall bathroom

Next left is the "window door" that was added between the MBR and #2 BR

Next to that on the right is the gutted addition behind the kitchen... this was the 2nd kitchen before

Under the 2nd BR with the window door is the gutted Master Bath

Then the same shot of the addition behind the kitchen... sorry

On the left under the gutted bathroom is the gutted kitchen

Next to that on the right is the wider opening from the living room/dining area into the kitchen

Lovely Cocoa next left

to the right of Cocoa is the new front door and window

Under Cocoa is the left side of the house with some of the new siding up

Last pic is the right side of the house... all the siding was taken off today and the new siding should all be up by the end of the day... we're getting MORE SNOW!!!

You can see the big roll-off dumpster in the driveway.

That's all for now....

You can see the glass door that is the official window in bedroom #2. That's because on the right side of the room a garage was built and the window blocked and on the back wall the master bedroom addition was built and blocked that window. This is the room that will be marketed as a study /office /nursery /baby's room and I think it will work fine.

The BEFORE Story

  The day before everything started. Took pictures of the before mess so that we can see the progress. The pictues are out of order, Just learning!  So you can orient yourself: when you enter the house the living room/dinin area is on the left. Enter the kitchen through the dining area. Go through the kitchen and you are in the addition in the back of the house. Here you'll find another kitchen with a door to the back yard. Turn to your right and you are in the master bedroom addition. This addition appears to have been added at two different times with the master bedroom being the last one. It is all across the back of the house.
The garage used to be a carport at one time. You will see the front bedroom windows in the front that is next to the garage. There is a bedroom behind that room on the back corner of the house.
Because of the garage and the addition in the back, the front bedroom had the side window closed up and the back bedroom had both the side and back window closed up making it a window-less room. When you enter the house and go straight forward, you will see the main bathroom, turn right and the front bedroom is on your right and the back bedroom will be on your left.

Currently the only way into the master bedroom is through the kitchen and back addition.

The kitchen and both bathrooms were completely gutted. The wall between the kitchen and dining room was removed to open it up to the kitchen. The window-less room had a window door put in  that goes into the master bedroom. Now we have light, and an another access to the master bedroom. We will market this room as a 3rd bedroom/study/office/nursery/child's room.  Kinda funky but I think it will work. 

More pictures to come of the under-construction phase.