The house where we live now – our house in Agave, is now for sale. I thought I would post some pictures of that house as well. The new (old) house will stylistically be very similar with maybe a few color changes.
Archive | July, 2008
welcome!
9 Jul
the house from the front
So I thought it would be fun to start a blog about remodeling the house we just purchased. It’s a fabulous split level built in 1972 in South Austin. We haven’t closed yet, so right now we’re just accumulating ideas and prices and making lists, etc. We’ve never done an extensive remodel, and this is Mike’s first time to buy a house (my 4th!) so it should be an interesting journey. If anyone reads this, I thought it might be useful for anyone embarking on their own remodeling journey. In any case, it should be an interesting ride so stay tuned! I’ll start with some before pics of the house we are in love with!
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- the sunken living room
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- the house from the front
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- sunken living
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- sunken living
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- view from sunken living to entrance on right and dining on left
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- hallway to bedrooms
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- leading to dated kitchen
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- dated kitchen
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- staircase to downstairs
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- laundry
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- second bathroom, hideous tile
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- bedroom 3
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- bedroom 2
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- bedroom 1
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- extra bathroom
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- floating staircase to downstairs den and master bedroom
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- downstairs living/den
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- downstairs living/den with wetbar
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- downstairs living
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- master bedroom
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- master bedroom, 2 closets thank goodness!
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- master bath again
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- the master bath with sunken shower
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- the huge master bedroom
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- the lower back deck area
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- the shed in the backyard
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- the back of the house and the deck in need of a redo
brady bunch remodel
- upstairs bath before and afters June 5, 2013The upstairs bathroom is complete! I wanted to post some before and after pics – what a difference! Before – we had old wood paneled walls painted glossy black with river rocks glued midway up the wall, original fixtures in really bad condition (the faucets were literally rotting out), and awful vinyl flooring. We did […]
- bathroom is DONE! May 24, 2013Two major things happened this week. The bathroom is DONE, and we got permit approval for the remodel/addition (only about a month after we submitted the plans, which surprised the heck out of us since we had heard that the permit backlog with the City of Austin was causing permits to take 2-3 months or […]
- so close… May 15, 2013The big reno is still in the works. We are waiting for the final, final bid from our contractor as well as our 2012 taxes (we filed an extension like we usually do to find out that the bank is requiring them to be done). Oh, and we did submit our plans for permits, but […]
- upstairs bathroom remodel | it’s happening! April 30, 2013We finally pulled the trigger on the upstairs bathroom remodel! Our goal is to have this bathroom done before we start the main house remodel, and we are well on the way! We purchased all of the materials/finishes and hired a contractor to do all the install/work. So far, so good! The bones of this […]
- round top/warrenton antiques weekend April 5, 2013Two posts in one week? What?! I must have a fever I made two trips out to the huge Round Top/Warrenton antiques fair this year (my first time to EVER go)! I didn’t realize how close it was to Austin (about an hour and 20 minutes!) – if I had known I am sure I […]
- palm springs (mid century architecture mecca) and san diego! April 2, 2013I wanted to share a bunch photos from the fun family vacation we took to Palm Springs and San Diego in February! Our daughter Zoey is 2 1/2 and finally old enough to really have fun going places and doing things with us, so we decided to take a family vacation (and one where I […]
- still chugging along… March 19, 2013Sadly, no news to report on the remodel front. We are waiting on the final contractor bid and then we will submit the plans for permitting. Who knows how long that will take?! I never thought it would take this long, but then again I am not really surprised. I am getting itchy fingers though […]
- remodel plans and updates February 3, 2013Shame on me, it’s been SO very long since I last posted. Not for lack of trying, but I’ve been busy, busy trying to finish editing all of my pre-xmas wedding and portrait shoots as well as working on a super secret business Mike and I are starting together. Well, it was super secret but […]
- blood, sweat, and an emergency plumber call (on a sunday) December 9, 2012Look what we started today! We were chugging along with demo of the upstairs bath thinking “we got this” when the wall hit the shower handle as it was coming down. Oops. The handle broke, water was spewing everywhere. Mike ran outside to turn off the water and in the meantime the water trickled down […]
- sneak peek | kitchen December 4, 2012We’ve been working with an awesome architect duo (and soon to be husband and wife) Alex Odom and Kelsey Harper to come up with plans for our remodel/addition to the house over the past couple of months. We had a meeting this weekend and we just about finalized everything, with a few tweaks to go […]
