Awesome and inspiring Joel! The Reno wasn’t half bad either! couldn’t help myself!
The kitchen was amazing and such big rooms in the house. The concrete backyard probably didn’t do it for me…I’d want a huge boat to park there to utilize it! The colour pallet was great, were the floor boards under the carpet? Or are they floating, hard to tell…[Read more]

Our agent convinced my husband to put a range on our property listing we recently had on the market. I thought it was ridiculous. We have never offered a price on a property that we didn’t think was worth it and by rule of thumb have always offered below asking price (as I’m sure everyone does) because buying property is a negotiation. Therefore…[Read more]

Admittedly we only had our property for sale for just over a month but after 3 weeks consecutive of no one even going through the open inspections and 10 days of no contact from prospective buyers we decided to take it off the market. We did have one party want to make an offer that I find almost insulting and we advised our agent to tell them…[Read more]

I have no experience whatsoever! I am yet to start my first Reno which won’t be until Feb in the new year!
Do you need 4 bedrooms or are you happy with three. What’s the market I that area looking for? Family homes, couples, retirees etc. I think making the living room into a bedroom is a good idea. Living spaces and kitchens are important to…[Read more]

We are North, in Kingsley.

I agree on the bagging and after chiseling away the clinker you really would need to fill in the lumps and bumps. We are sure that we are going to render now. As for the inside of the house we are considering knocking down a wall and redoing the kitchen or just doing away with the clinker and seeing if that is enough. After reading in the money…[Read more]

People have commented negatively to our agent about the clinker, it’s the ugliest brick ever and not to mention a health hazard for children! In some places inside the house the bricks are child height and sharp on edges and running into one isn’t good!
If we don’t get a reasonable offer in the next few weeks then we will probably have to take it…[Read more]

What’s the reason for the bath? Most baths these days are only used for the kids and you have one upstairs, unless you are lucky enough to get time to relax in one! Have you considered a Roman bath? That way you get the shower/ bath and if you really want the toilet in there you can fit it. I think if you already have a toilet on that level then…[Read more]

Thanks Kent

Unfortunately the clinker is real bricks but every few bricks they put in a feature brick that is broken and sticks out from the wall. We would have to get these bricks jack hammered off or chiseled so it can be rendered over. The entire exterior is clinker brick. Here is an example of it I found to show
http://eastmoreland.info/?p=22

It really…[Read more]