Shorty the fliphouse

Shorty the Flip House: Bedrooms Reveal

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Come back every Friday to see how this house, aka Shorty, progresses from week to week.  To catch up on the progress on Shorty, check out his previous posts here.  If you’re new here, (Hello!!!) you can find more about my 5 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

Are you guys ready for the next installment of Shorty the Flip House's reveal??  Did you catch the living spaces reveal yesterday?  Today is bedroom show and tell!  Shorty has 3 bedrooms according to town records.  One of those bedrooms is a bit atypical and you need to walk through a small bedroom to get to the much larger master- perfect for a nursery or office space.  Staging-wise, I kept it all minimal throughout the house and used items I already had.

Without further ado, we'll start in the first bedroom:

 

Refreshed just a bit...

 

 

The walk-through bedroom, bedroom #2:

 

I was actually planning to stage this room as a home office with the desk that has now been ousted from my home office-turned-nursery, however we changed our plans last minute.  Moving the large desk that I had in mind would have been more than a little cumbersome to get up the stairs and into the space, so we opted for "minimal seating area."

 

 

 

Lastly for the bedrooms, we find the spacious master bedroom (and I say that non-sarcastically)

 

 

For a house of this age (built in 1920), this is quite a spacious bedroom.  It's also nice to see an antique home with decently sized closets in all rooms- it wasn't a priority back then, so closet space is often a compromise you need to make in an antique home... luckily not the case here!

 

 

 

Totally fresh and livable bedrooms now!  Not the spacious bedrooms that you might find in a new construction home, but so cute, oozing character, and will be perfect for a young family if I do say so myself.

 

My favorite transformations are coming over the next few days.  Tomorrow, the bathrooms; Thursday, the exterior; and because I'm trying to build anticipation, I'm saving the kitchen for Friday.  Kitchens sell houses, and this is no exception.

 

See you tomorrow and we can get personal in the bathrooms!

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Shorty the Flip House: Living Spaces Reveal

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Come back every Friday to see how this house, aka Shorty, progresses from week to week.  To catch up on the progress on Shorty, check out his previous posts here.  If you’re new here, (Hello!!!) you can find more about my 5 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

For those here in MA, happy Patriots Day/ Marathon Monday! #BOSTONSTRONG!  No matter where you are, happy Reveal Week!!!  I've got treats for you every day this week, leading up to the kitchen reveal on Friday which is pretty much going to blow your socks off.  Today, I have the downstairs living spaces to show you.  Even though I teased you with the pic on Friday, I'll start at the very beginning again- the front porch:

 

If that picture doesn't refresh your memory, we cleaned out 4 20yd dumpsters of stuff out of the house before we could really dig in.

 

 

From there, I invite you into the entryway- the before pic on the left is from post clean-out, but before any real work was done.  The after pic on the right isn't a drastic change, but just a refresh of this little space.

 

 

 

From there, let's step into the dining room to the left of the entryway.

 

 

No major repairs were done in the dining room- primarily plaster repair, trim replacement, floor refinishing, and paint.

 

 

The living room transformation is a bit more stunning.

 

 

 

 

The fireplace got a few quick refreshes that make such a huge difference.  The brick got painted white and I installed a craigslisted doors/screen.  I actually picked up the fireplace doors about an hour before our plans started to change for Copper Dot Baby 2.5 weeks ago.

 

 

To avoid one crazy crazy long post, I'm breaking Shorty's reveals into a full week, so stay tuned all week!!

Tuesday: Bedrooms

Wednesday: Bathrooms

Thursday: Exterior

Friday: Saving the BEST for last-  Kitchen!!

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Shorty the Flip House: Week 19 & Reveal Teaser

I hope you enjoy these weekly updates as I navigate through the business of flipping houses one house at a time!!  Come back every Friday to see how this house, aka Shorty, progresses from week to week.  To catch up on the progress on Shorty, check out his previous posts here.  If you’re new here, (Hello!!!) you can find more about my 5 previous flip houses here.  Thanks for coming along for the ride!!  

Trying to finish up a flip with an infant under 2 weeks old is no joke, let me tell you.  That's why my posting schedule is a bit off...  But I am pleased to say, we're coming out of some of the fog of the past 2 weeks and I have some finished spaces to show you!  Today's is just a teaser post to get you ready for a week of reveals!

Monday: Downstairs living spaces

Tuesday: Bedrooms

Wednesday: Bathrooms

Thursday: Exterior

Friday: Saving the BEST for last-  Kitchen!!

 

And since I can't just leave you hanging again, how about a little before and after taste to whet your appetite:

Take a step in and breathe in the fresh air.

 

 

Have an amazing weekend and I hope you're ready to see some fun stuff this coming week!