02/08/2021
Master bathroom reveal! Check out the before and after.... what do you think?
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How it all got started...
Our adventures with renovation started completely by accident. We bought our first home one week before we got married in 2013. We painted, and moved in, content to update things a little at a time while we lived there. Fate had other plans. One week after coming home from our honeymoon, I came home to water running out the side door. Needless to say I freaked out. We spent the next four months living in a hotel room, with four dogs, while we renovated our home. The insurance claim was over $100,000 including our hotel stay. Busted pipe in the foundation. Seriously no fun. But we got to remodel the entire house and we took what we learned and moved on.
I had so much fun picking finishes and remodeling I seriously considered going back to school to get a degree in Interior Design. I settled for buying a condo a year later in College Station (home of Texas A&M, and our Alma Mater). We spent every weekend of the following three months driving down there (3 hours both ways) and renovating the entire place. New kitchen, new baths, new flooring, new paint, new everything. We rented it out as our first investment property.
A year and a half later, my husband was getting sick of his commute to work (45min each way), and I was itching for another project... So we sold our first home, and bought the Plano house. This place was straight out of the 80’s. In fact, it sat on the market almost 365 days in a hot Dallas market because it needed new AC units and was so outdated. (We’re talking green tile in the kitchen/living room.) This home was by far our largest project. There was not a surface we didn’t touch. 4 new bathrooms, brand new kitchen, flooring, paint, backyard, landscaping... I mean EVERYTHING was new. We had gotten a fantastic deal on this one... $445k when (at the time) I figured it was valued at about $550k. You see, I’m a Realtor, so I spend all my time looking at homes (when I’m not renovating stuff). Anyway, we got a fantastic deal, and we took the profits from our first house sale to put about $95k into this new house.
Fast forward 1 year. My husband received a job offer we couldn’t pass up.... in Connecticut. So, we put the Plano house on the market and sold it in 3 days at $630k.... almost a 100k profit! And that is the moment I was fully hooked.
