Attention yuppies! House for sale!
My flip house is on the market. Yay! When I look at the before and after pictures, I am overcome by feelings of idiocy. Fool house deserved not a fraction of the love it got. The kitchen:
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I suppose we changed the kitchen JUST A LITTLE. Off camera is a walk-in pantry made of solid cherry. Oh baby. Me and Pete Double-Chuck built the pantry and cabinets from scratch. Oh, and the granite countertops/backsplash…we cut and installed them ourselves. Did you know that granite is REALLY heavy? It is. The slab with the cook-top is 380 lbs. My back hurts thinking about it.
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The “before” pic is facing the wrong way…but you get an idea of the bogusness of the situation. What possessed our forefathers to butcher 9 1/2 foot ceilings by lowering them with a stank-ugly 7 1/2 foot drop ceiling? I’ll never understand old people.
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Exposing brick is not as easy as it looks.
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This is the rumpus room. I wish my house had a rumpus room. I’ve got more pics, but I’m bored. I can only imagine how bored YOU must be. Go walk the dog or something! You’re not getting any younger sitting in front of the computer!
Handsome work! You might have trouble finding yuppies, though, I think they died out in the early 90s. Probably a few hipsters in town that would be interested, though. Hold an open house, park a fixie out front, and put a “free fair trade coffee” sign in the yard. You’ll have that place sold in an hour!
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Wow. You’ll find a rich Doctor and his wife to move in to that place in no time. I wasn’t bored with your pics. I guess that’s why I might be lame.
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Looks Fab! Now go out and take your family to Olive Garden to celebrate… but you really should teach the kid how to color within the lines with crayons.
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oh.. and they aren’t yuppies anymore.. they are DINKs
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so not bored! but then, I’m picking paint colors and light fixtures for my 1937 home . . .
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Gorgeous! I have a house in the UK that could use your talents.
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p.s. i wasn’t stalking you. you sat at the table next to me, and i didn’t say hi, because how would that go? “Hi, i’m that crazy guy that comments on your blog…yes mrs. neill, people actually read that thing.
plus i’m painfully shy with strangers… unless they happen to piss me off or something, and then i get downright nasty to them.
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Holy shit! Oh sorry…cursing.
Holy shit, you did an AWESOME job!!!! I would LOVE to see more pictures! What did you do with the bathroom?
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I wish you were back in Chicago so that you could teach me some of this. I will never look at my shed extension the same.
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