Thursday, August 25, 2011

Home improvement update

As you may have gathered from the decision making post, we want to make a good number of changes to the house. But, we are hoping to move back to NC in the next few years. With that in mind, we want to focus our home improving efforts on tasks that will help us sell our house quickly when it comes time. So we had our wonderful real estate agent swing by recently to give us some feedback.

There were 4 major projects we asked about.

1. Adding french doors to the living room to make it more of an office

The office


2. Master bath remodel

The master bath
3. Second bath remodel
4. Finishing the wall between the two back rooms to make them separate rooms

The real estate agents' verdicts:
1. She liked the idea of the french doors and recommended someone who does them at a really reasonable price. In fact it is so reasonable that we are considering having this done very soon.

Maybe something like this??


2. The master bath is the most important - PLUS if we do it sooner rather than later we can enjoy it too. I like her thinking! Here are some pictures to give you an idea of why we need to update the bathroom.

Shell sinks and gold faucets

More gold

Extremely crappy job done on the floor

More terrible floor finish
Gold everywhere!

Sorry this might gross you out - no matter what I try to clean it with, the shower glass simply will not clean.  I've tried 6 different methods of cleaning and nothing works.
Weirdo, dysfunctional bathroom lights that shine straight down.

At 5 am the lights resemble a spaceship landing and I resemble an alien after I putting on my makeup in this light!

Other than that, she said the newly remodeled master bath along with the size of our rooms should really make our house sell quickly (when the time comes). Good news all around.


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