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Flipping Out Knoxville (House #3) – Before

May 11, 2012

We’re at it again…. We bought another bank-owned property to flip, but we liked this one so much, we’ve decided to move in!  In it’s current state, it’s a 1940′s bungalow with 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 1400 square feet. By the time we’re done with it, it will be 3 bedrooms + office, 2 [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 6

March 31, 2011

This week the kitchen and bathroom flooring was installed.  Since this house will be a rental and not a re-sale, we chose to put down vinyl flooring in the kitchen and bathrooms.  Vinyl will hold up wonderfully for a long time and is a very economical choice for rentals.  If a tenant scrapes up the [...]

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Video After Demo

February 28, 2011

Here is a video I took after Week 1, once the team had completed the demolition: Post-Demo Home Tour

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Flipping Out (House #2) – Week 2

February 28, 2011

During Week 2 of the renovations, the construction team demo’d the house!  They tore off some of the wallpaper from the living and dining areas: They tore out the old closet in the middle bedroom: They began to knock a hole in the hallway to construct the laundry room: In the kitchen, they ripped out [...]

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Week 11 – Flipping Out

December 13, 2010

By the end of Week 11, they had hung doors, finished painting the walls (but not the trim), and hung the beadboard in the bathroom.  We tried to keep as many of the original doors as possible as well as original hardware. Where we couldn’t keep original doors, we found 5 or 6-paneled ones to [...]

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Flipping Out – Week 8

November 29, 2010

Sorry for the delay – holidays got in the way!  So by the end of Week 8 the workers had sanded all the floors:     In this next one you can see where the dark paint used to be around the edges. The edges have the original dark paint and the center of the [...]

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Flipping Out – Week 7

November 5, 2010

Week 7 was pretty exciting! We saw the paint color on the exterior of the house because our contractors matched the primer exactly to the color and went ahead and primed.  We LOVE the blue color of the house but were pretty off on the red (orange) door! Luckily, that’s an easy fix! We were [...]

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Flipping Out – Week 4

September 30, 2010

As you can remember, the space designated for the kitchen had been demolished. The floors and walls were all rotted wood, so they had to tear all the old wood out.  This week, they re-built the new floors, walls, and exterior walls. Also, if you can remember what the living room used to look like: [...]

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Week 3 – Flipping Out – Kitchen Demo!

September 20, 2010

This is a picture of the kitchen when we first purchased the house. This next two pictures are of the demo that Ryan and I did ourselves, including tearing out all the cabinets, the sink, and the counters: After we did all the demo we felt comfortable doing ourselves, we called in the contractors to [...]

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