Dexter Street SOLD

We closed yesterday on the Dexter Street home.  Joe and I particularly enjoyed this project and the style of this home.  It was also our first project completed this calendar year.  Once again, we thank each of you for the part you played in this project and helping us jump back into the real estate world.

The scope of work included adding 128 sf to the home, a new 2 car garage, landscaping and irrigation, new Kitchen, 3 new baths, infrastructure upgrade - plumbing, electrical, etc., and complete cosmetic remodel.

Dexter Street Update

We are under contract on the Dexter Street property. 
If all goes as planned, we will close later this week.  

Watch here for updates!

Dexter - On the Market!

The work at Dexter was wrapped up this week.  The For Sale sign went up and now we wait for the perfect buyer.  Here are the kids this morning before we showed them the final product ...

A full tour of the home can be found at:

http://homesite.obeo.com/viewer/default.aspx?tourid=726546&refurl=highres.obeo.com

Once you click on the link above and the site is opened, click the “start tour” button 

in the lower right to view the pictures of the property.

Thanks again to everyone for continuing to support us throughout this project.

Dexter - week 8 and 9

The progress at Dexter has almost been going to quickly to document.  

The paint is complete, the cabinets set, light fixtures hung, granite installed, carpet laid, 

flowers planted and hardwood refinished.

Kitchen backsplash waiting grout and outlets

 

Hopefully, the next pictures you see on this blog of Dexter include a "For Sale" sign. 

Dexter - Week Seven

With Joe gone for a couple of days, it was up to me to keep things moving smoothly at Dexter.  

Boy, was I glad when Joe got home!  

The highlights of the week included:

• the landscaping was completed, 
• the drywall was finished,
• the tile was installed in the Bathrooms and Kitchen,
• most of the staining was completed on the original woodwork in the Living and Dining Room, 
• the Kitchen cabinets were installed 
• and the trim was started.

Landscaped back yard

New tile in one of the showers

Freshly stained bedroom doors

Dexter - Week Six

The drywall was hung and finished at Dexter this week.  While that happened, I spent the week finalizing the finishes for the Bathrooms and Kitchen.  

Here are a couple of the design boards.  

Check back next week - a lot of this will be installed!

Dexter - Week Five

This week at Dexter we received all of the rest of our rough inspections.  This gives us the green light to start insulating and putting the house back together.

The garage is done and will be painted this week!

Ramone the Landscaper has started ... last week the fence went up ... this week regrading and irrigation!

Friday afternoon Bartolo was cleaning up getting ready for the drywall to be installed this coming week.  This is the Kitchen.  The stack of boxes in the picture are the cabinets that will be installed by the end of the week.

Dexter - Week Four

This week was short due to the Easter holidays and started with snow and colder weather.  We worked on finishing the rough electrical and plumbing.  In addition, we focused on obtaining our first round of inspections.  We will get the remaining rough inspections in the coming week and then be able to start closing up all of our open walls.  The garage is also almost finished.

Check back next week for pictures as we start to finish up this project!

Dexter - Week Two

It was another busy week up at Dexter.  The work continued to progress well.  

Some of the work is "prettier" than others.  For example, the old clay pipe sewer from the house to the alley was replaced ... here are the new cleanouts ...

We put an egress window into the basement bedroom.

The old single pane windows in them mudroom were replaced with new ones ... 

now I am looking forward to seeing the bead board go up on the walls!

We also opened up another wall.  This one is between the Dining Room and the Kitchen.  The Kitchen is a galley style kitchen.  The new sink and dishwasher will be located under this window!

And we have started to think about paint colors.  Feel free to let me know what color you would vote on! 

Next week, we hope that the addition to the Master Bedroom will be completely framed in and the garage will be built.  Check back soon to see what else we get done!

Dexter - Week One

This week started with the delivery of a dumpster and lots of dust!  Although it also ended with lots of dust, we started to put a few things back together ... here Vince is starting to fix the drywall in the Living and Dining Room and fill in some of holes in these walls.  By the end of the week, the walls had a fresh skim coat and the blue and yellow paint was all gone!

As we explored the house, we discovered that the windows in the sun room were original.  The operation of them is very unique.  I believe that they were originally intended to be completely opened and the room used as a sleeping porch.  The windows are made to slide down through the window sill and into the lower wall.

Here you can see how the window sill would fold open to allow for the window to slide down into the wall.

More updates soon - we are planning a very full second week!

Dexter Closing

Meet the latest project for Building Winners, Inc.  This is currently a 1277 square foot, 2 bedroom, 1 bath Bungalow that was built in 1917.  Check back here to watch the progress as we renovate this great home.

2635 Dexter Closing Update

All the papers are signed, the money is sitting in escrow and we wait ... wait for Bank of America (the seller) to finishing signing their side of the documents.  With a little luck, we will receive the keys tomorrow afternoon and start swinging some hammers!

When I was in the neighborhood today, I took a few pictures ... it sure felt like Spring!  Hope these pictures give you a feel of the neighborhood.

Spinellis Market and the Cherry Tomato are neighborhood favorites -
a short 2 block walk from the Dexter property!

This park/playground is at the corner of 23rd and Dexter -
on a Spring afternoon like today, it was full of toddlers and "picnic-ers".