hey what's up guys! it's Dara, and right now I am standing in front of a
property that we are currently getting renovated--a complete gut of the kitchen
living area, down in the basement, and the den and you are about to see my guys in
there-- I don't know if you can hear the noise, but they're in there getting the
tile torn up, you know, they're in there ripping out the carpets. so I want to
take you along for the journey so come right on inside.
*intro music*
what you're looking at here is the before condition of the heart of the home
AKA, the kitchen.
the kitchen demo was coming along nicely according to plan
until we found out one huge problem
yeah you guessed it! water damage. and the severity of the water damage was so
extensive that all the floors in the kitchen, living room, and even in the
basement had to get ripped up and we had to put all new subfloor.
I didn't get a chance to capture it, but there was carpet on the stairs before and tile flooring
down on the landing and in the bathroom. so here I'm just mentioning that we plan
to paint all the walls and trim. and in here, we're replacing this old, tired
carpet with a brand new look.
oh yeah, and we're also saying goodbye to the carpet in the living room!
so like I mentioned, there was water damage and it was really extensive and
even affected the basement, so we had to get the carpet ripped up and also cut
into the sheetrock.
once all the flooring was removed as well as the drywall
the restoration company had to deploy these humongous fans to dry up as much of the
wood as possible, so you can see they're everywhere.
so we just had all the paint--all the interior paint done throughout the house
including the trim
so now we're waiting for the floors to get done next, we're getting new outlet covers
this is what it looks like now, new gray everywhere
gray with white trim
the wood flooring finally came in. next up: installation.
we opted to extend the wood flooring from the living room, foyer, and throughout the kitchen.
so they ran out of wood flooring for the rest of this space, so that's why that's on pause
but you see all new trim
all new white trim
it's finally coming along, very slowly though.
update! we got all new trim installed: baseboards, on the doors, every-single-where
and the upper cabinets are all gone.
ready for brand new look.
"this looks like a whole different kitchen!"
I know, I said, "wow!"
even got the corner like corner you know? "oh yeah. it's a lot more functional."
wow
and it's taller
so now it's time to take a final look at the finished product. you've seen the
entryway, you've seen the living room, the kitchen, so now let me take you down to the basement.
this is so exciting, because as you saw before here, we had carpet on
the stairs so we just changed it all out to hardwood floors. so it's all hardwood throughout.
this is the bathroom transformation!
so as you can see we have
brand new floor here. the paint and the trim you already saw.
and now we're gonna go right on into the den, where we have all new carpet, new paint, trim, and then
the entertainment area here.
alright so the truth about this rehab project is that
it took a very long time, so we went way over timeline and we stayed a little bit
under budget; however, it was roughly about forty thousand to get the job done
primarily because there was a huge water damage [issue] that rotted a lot of the sub
floors and the wood. we had to also get a new water heater, which is not fun to
show so I didn't mention that in the process, but this was an interesting job.
I love the transformation you guys will see the before and after. so if you liked
this video give me a thumbs up. for more content, please please please subscribe
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I'll make sure to do more videos like this-- take you along on some rehab projects
that I have going on, because now we're really all about buying, rehabbing
renting, and rinsing and repeating: the BRRRR method
so if you're not familiar with that method, if you want me to make a video on
what that is, go ahead and drop a comment below as well. so yeah, thank you guys for
coming along on this journey with me, thank you for watching this video once again
and I will see you in the next one.