806 ArtAbodes

11/05/2022

It’s been a while since we’ve made a new post. The last year has been exhilarating and exhausting, but our Airbnb is up and running! We’d love to help you style your Airbnb or your own home! Give us a call!

Entire home in Lubbock, United States. Nestled on a quaint brick street in the Heart of Historic South Overton, this 1934 cottage has been lovingly restored from top to bottom and is fil...

10/17/2021

Little miss yellow house got some major fluffing yesterday. It sure did soften her edges! On Thursday we will get 6,000 lbs of landscape boulders delivered; they will not only provide layers and texture to the flower beds, but they take up lots of space that won’t need to be planted or maintained. It dawned on me that this may be the first time most of you have seen the new trim color. We still have to get the shutters painted and installed and get the doors and window mullions painted. Those will all be a deep peacock blue. We opted to do those ourselves to save more-than-a-lot-of-$$$. It’s all those little details that can kill a budget.

10/15/2021

Yellow house update: primary bathroom. I went exploring a little further today to find the cause of the uneven floor. Somewhere in her 80+ years, someone cut out two of the floor joists and just covered the span with plywood. Bless her heart…..no wonder she was “slope-y”!

10/13/2021

Yellow house update: 6 new shutters, ready for sanding and paint! It took a little time, but I saved over $1,000 by making these myself!

10/13/2021

Yellow house update: the plumbers are here tearing out the old supply and drain lines and I’m making exterior shutters. I found the perfect ready-made shutters and holy cow, they were almost $500 a pair! So I am copying their design. Easy peasey! (Maybe…..)

10/12/2021

Yellow house update: we lost some monster limbs in the wind yesterday, so our big old elm got a much needed trim today. The second coat of paint went up in the spare bedroom. The color had me a little worried after the first coat, but it went to the much deeper indigo I had envisioned today. It’s such a rich, moody blue!

10/09/2021

Yellow house update: We took a break from some of the really dirty work to slap up some paint this afternoon. This is the spare downstairs bedroom. I’m going very dark and sultry with all of the bedrooms…..this room is getting a deep indigo on the walls and all the trim. I want the bedrooms to feel like a big hug for our guests. It will be styled with a vintage brass bed that should pop against the deep blue walls with crisp white bedding and splashes of deep jewel tones in the accessories.

10/08/2021

Yellow house sneak peak……because I’m terrible at waiting for the big reveal. One of the accent colors started going up today and I am all about it! As far as I can tell, the trim on this house has been white since the 1930’s; that changes today!

10/08/2021

We’ve been so busy that we are late posting updates about our yellow house project. The exterior is in the process of getting new exterior paint. We replaced the old tongue and groove scalloped trim on the back porch with cedar planks. The original trim was rotted beyond saving, so the cedar was a cost effective and beautiful alternative. Inside we’ve gutted the primary bath to the studs. The hall bath floor has been taken up and we’ve taken out the small vanity to make room for a larger vanity along a longer wall. We have exposed the shiplap on the fireplace wall for a stunning accent feature. We will be whitewashing that wall to tone down the red in the cedar. We have also taken out a small, unusable closet in the entry and exposed all of that shiplap as well. We will be building a bench with a shelf and hooks for much more efficient coat storage. The entry will get a deep jade paint and stunning gold, vintage-inspired pendant light. I will try to be better about posting updates. Stay tuned!

08/30/2021

We’ve started the process of cleaning up the exterior of the little yellow house. The seller is leasing back until mid-September, so for now, we’re doing what we can outside. Yesterday we cleared 4’ tall weeds out of the alley and today a tree company started removing all of the plantings that are in danger of damaging the foundation. While we are not fans of taking down mature growth trees, leaving them would eventually lead to significant foundation repairs. Once we have the beds cleaned out, we’ll start working on a new planting plan for this fall.

08/25/2021

We just added this fabulous Historic South Overton property to our portfolio. Over the next few months she’ll be getting all new plumbing, an ArtAbodes update on the interior and will soon be one of Lubbock’s coolest vacation rentals. Stay tuned!

06/06/2021

For the last two months we have been working on our own back rental. After our tenant found wet carpet, we realized water was getting into the foundation and we had to take out the walls to get the carpet up. We called in a foundation company to water-seal the foundation and once the walls were down, it only made sense to go ahead and update the entire living/sleeping area. The bathroom and kitchen were completed in spring of 2020.