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Phase 4 completes today

Phase 1 - purchase, demo, create kitchen, create space we could live in. Resulted in Kitchen, Bath, bedroom, living area.  Funded by sale of former primary residence.

Phase 2 - Complete the plaster, floors, and bathrooms - expanding living space to 3 bedrooms upstairs, art room downstairs, dining, living room, 4 bathrooms in service (not complete). Installation of HVAC. Funded by sale of investment property + 0% lines of credit.

Phase 3- Slate roof replacement, chimney work, exterior carpentry work. Funded by mortgage on house.

Phase 4 - Paint exterior, paint interior, interior carpentry, punch list items. Funded by home equity line of credit.



Remaining items from punch lists above -

  • Fix tile in 2 bathrooms. 
  • Paint kitchen walls again. 
  • Paint pantry again. 
  • Finish girls bathroom (we have all materials, just need to do the work)
  • Fix basement access 
  • Create butler pantry or half bath or laundry room thing. Plans change with sobriety. 
  • fix worst aspects of the yard and drainage


CURRENT FOCUS = PAY OFF DEBT INCURRED TO DO ALL OF THE ABOVE.


Phase 5 - Finish work on two former porches that are now enclosed creating a sunroom/kitchen extension, master bedroom, master bathroom.

Phase 6 - turn summer kitchen into rental efficiency.


We'll need another 100k to complete the last phase. If we do all the work ourselves it's probably $25k in materials + months of labor. We're just not even going to think about it for a long while.

The day we bought the house



Today 

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