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Dec 31, 2011 5:39PM
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It would be nice to add more floor space to my hotel room by adding a wooden platform on which to place my bed. Quickly, without relocating to a larger apartment, I could spread out in quite a bit more standing room, which I could use, for instance, to improve my music videos by adding a wall-hung background and/or some floor-standing studio lighting effects. Unfortunately, the room's ceiling, however, based upon my arms-reach measurements, is too low for a platform. Watch this video to see how I estimated my room's available space using only my body and no measuring instruments, which could have gotten in the way towards my determining of the room's virtual available remodeling-space dimensions, before I might have ever ended up wasting any time and/or energy from constructing useless room dividers in an otherwise cozy, functional amount of space in this little hotel room. See it at my YouTube Channel or my Blogger blog, "Resume."

Dec 22, 2011 11:49AM
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Painting wood cabinets white is better how? Oh wait if we use catchy terms like unitfy then its ok.

Dec 14, 2011 4:56AM
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Perhaps I missed it---was the cost of these renovations listed anywhere? How much of the work did they have to hire out and how much of it did they do themselves? Any union plumbers, carpenters, bricklayers etc. that you had to hire (especially the ones that lifted the house to repair the foundation) must have cost a small fortune.  I hope they didn't spend a lot for the house and property to begin with because all that work must have cost them as much as a brand new home.
Dec 14, 2011 4:54AM
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L. Streeter... It wasn't for us bloody americans you would be speaking German. Your welcome scumbag. now go back to your hole. and why would americans want to travel to your dump of a  country? I prefer the Islands when I travel, the people there are extremely polite and not ignorant people like you Europeans. And if that is what you believe that's how us Americans live than you are probably about as dumb as they come.
Dec 14, 2011 4:30AM
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To L Streeter - What, you woke up on the wrong side of the pond?  What cave did you just crawl out of?  Go back to it.  You're don't have a clue you "bloody" ex-pat.  What, you eat at Arthur Treacher's and call it a great fish dinner.  Are you kidding me you jackass. 
Dec 14, 2011 4:23AM
Dec 14, 2011 4:19AM
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WOULD THE PEOPLE FROM THE DATEING GAME GO AWAY.

Dec 13, 2011 9:39PM
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Did a good job, NIce house ,But too much cost. So rich man.
Dec 13, 2011 8:02PM
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Unless you know what you're doing and /or are handy enough to do quality work on your own place, remodeling will cost you a small fortune.  Don't put too much into a home you don't plan on keeping, only in a place you plan on living in for a long, long time.  We invested in a home we thought had "good bones" and we still invested over $100K more than we could ever get back out of it, and it STILL isn't what we really want.  It would take another ton of money to add what we need to make it a home we could be happy with forever.  Everyone has their own taste too, so what we put into a home and think is perfect doesn't necessarily mean you can sell the house to someone else, because who really has the same taste?  Like all white walls...some folks would say it's great and clean looking, the next person will say it lacks any decorating sense and is colorless and bland.  Better to know what you really want in a home then find the location you want and a get home you don't have to reinvent from the bottom up...unless you have excess money and time.
Dec 13, 2011 6:11PM
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the house has two chimneys, one at each end
Dec 13, 2011 5:49PM
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Be very careful of "flipped homes"  most are just done to look pretty but once you move into them they become money pits, My Realtor who was a personal friend sold me a home from another Realtor who flipped it, yep it looked all nice and new paid for a professional inspection  about 3 months into it, upon real close inspection by myself  all the nice looking new windows were all factory seconds/blems,( minut chips in the edges) when i cleaned them after a week into the home some of them cracked, the Carpet looked new but was dyed to cover all the pet stains, i found that out after replacing all the carpet with hardwood flooring, they covered the wavy unlevel water damaged old hardwood floors with bits of cardboard to make it level, then heavy carpet padding then they used dyed Carpet. The "new heating system" worked about 2 months which i had to replace in the dead of winter, replaced the water heater also

 

 The neighbors told me the home was flooded at its previous location and moved to this site and it was an old crack house, holes in all the walls and 4 pit bulls that urine all over the home ( which explained why i always had sinus problems) the realtor that sold it never mentioned any of the problems or its history to my agent who amazingly stopped talking to me after she made the sale, even though i had a professional inspection he sure missed a lot of things, it's amazing what a fresh coat of paint. Drywall and such will make a turd look great BUT its still a Turd.  so lesson learned for me but never buy a flipped home most are just made to look pretty.

Dec 13, 2011 4:38PM
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Good Job Done*The pic shows an old shack,converted into a decent house*Hard Work..$$$dollars well spent*Good luck...  Al sayee
Dec 13, 2011 4:23PM
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Wow I  really like it. Cool....We able to see many houses n know about prices. Thank u. GBU
Dec 13, 2011 4:20PM
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mike markley

you clearly don't get it.  The people that bought and restored the house in Mississippi didn't do it to 'rent or sell'.  They made it their home.  I restore old buildings.  and I also buy 'wrecks' and redo them to rent or sell.  But that is HUGELY different than what they did.  They made a home.

your first mistake is thinking they did that for profit.  Not sure exactly what your other mistake(s) is/are but It costs me far LESS to start with a shell and redo it than it costs to build new or buy almost ready to market.  So you are clearly doing that wrong too.

Dec 13, 2011 4:01PM
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I agree that this is some realtor site,  and very few REAL people would actually buy a junk house and fix it up.....I HAVE fixed up a couple of these junk type houses, but it takes a LONG time, and lots of money...Expect to pay double what you originally paid before you can rent or sell it...
Dec 13, 2011 3:37PM
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Took all the earth tones and color out and painted it WHITE.

 That folks ,is not how to design a pretty place.

 

Dec 13, 2011 3:21PM
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They took away the character of the kitchen, cant believe someone got paid to design a all white kitchen, come on
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The picture of the house on the home page, is it the same house??   lots of things that don't match.

Most of all why would they move the chimney to the other side of the house??.

Dec 13, 2011 2:36PM
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Seriously? All they did was make everything white- which shows every speck of dirt, mind you- and spend a **** ton of money on fancy, useless, things. Things that are going to be "out of style" five years from now.
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