Hey everyone! We’re set to sell my very first home that I had built right out of college on Monday and I’m looking back at pictures and thinking about how far it has come! We’ve had it as a rental ever since we’ve been married – I moved out of it and into our current house about 2 months before I met my husband. When our last set of tenants notified us that they were being transferred and were going to have to break their lease a couple months early, I saw it as an opportunity to get the house on the market at the best time (the summer) and also saw it as an opportunity to UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATE! I gave myself one week from tenant move-out to listed on the MLS, and somehow everything came together and we got it done!
The house is only 6 years old, so realistically how much updating did it need? Well, I wanted to get rid of the carpet that had somehow survived through three sets of tenants + their animals. So I put in handscraped engineered hardwoods in the main living area and hallway. We also painted ALL of the builder-grade beige walls – instead, we used SW Repose Gray.We left the darker gray color, Valspar’s City Scape because I had painted it when I lived there. The large wall in the living room was toned down and we painted it City Scape, as well. We also added two recessed lights in the great room leading to the hallway to kind of light up the walkway – this room is so large, it really needed all the light it could get.
We painted the master bedroom + one of the guest rooms that hadn’t already been painted. The light grey made it look so much brighter!
The biggest difference was made in the kitchen. I really love painted cabinets, and it was a last-minute decision, but a good one. We painted the cabinets SW Gauntlet Gray, added Napoli White granite countertops, and my current obsession – arabesque backsplash tile.
The dining room/living room/foyer are all one big room, so not many changes were made in the dining room and foyer area besides the hardwood. While I lived in the house, I had the wainscotting, hall tree, and coffered ceiling added + I painted the walls. We just had to do some touch-ups and it was good to go!
We also put sod down in the backyard and created some flowerbeds, I was too embarrassed to take a before picture because it looked so terrible!
After all was said and done, I put quite a bit of money into this place – I don’t know if I’ve ever spent that much in just a weeks time before… But it was worth it! After just twelve hours on the market, we got our first of 3 offers! I hope this home is as good to the new owners as it was to me!
Chelsea
If you’re interested in seeing more, all other listing pictures can be found on my real estate Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/chemckinneyrealestate/
And you can see a video walk-through on our BDD Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/blackdoordesigns/