The document details the process of home inspection and remodeling, emphasizing the importance of choosing a skilled inspector with significant experience. It showcases a specific remodeling project, illustrating before and after comparisons of various rooms and the improvements made. The author highlights their expertise and the tactical changes undertaken to optimize the home's layout and functionality.

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3. Here is a home I purchased in 2013 for a winter project. This home had excellent curb
appeal and didn’t need much on the exterior. I knew I could re-sell it quickly.
Let me show you some before and after pictures of the interior improvements made. I
was only two-thirds of the way done when I had a signed contract for full asking price. I
owned this home for less than three months.
The pictures were taken without foresight of making a slide show but they will certainly
give you the general idea.

4. ORIGINAL KITCHEN
Joe, my amazing son and
right hand man, looks over
the kitchen as I explain
some of the changes I’ll be
making.
The original cabinets were
good so we concentrated on
removing this valance,
adding some molding and
giving the walls, ceilings and
moldings a fresh coat of
paint.
This doorway doesn’t
make sense to the overall
flow. I’ll board this up and
place the refrigerator here.

5. ORIGINAL KITCHEN
The cabinets will stay. I’ll
add some crown molding
and paint the walls.

6. ORIGINAL KITCHEN
This corner conceals a
chimney that will be torn out.
This will add to the usable
square footage as well as allow
things to be opened up.
This doorway leads to the
bathroom and bedrooms. I’ll
cover this up for a place to
put the refrigerator.
This is the entrance to the
living room. It needs to be
bigger to provide a more
open floor plan.
The tile floor needs to be replaced as it
is all cracked up and grout is missing in
much of it.

7. ORIGINAL LAUNDRY ROOM
This room is pretty bad. It needs
new windows, ceiling, flooring,
painting and more.

8. MORE OF THE ORIGINAL LAUNDRY ROOM

9. ORIGINAL MASTER BEDROOM
This is a good size room that did not
function well as a Master Bedroom. The
plan is to make the bedroom smaller but
highly functional by adding a walk-in closet
and a full bath.
This closet is small and
useless. It will be taken out
to make room for the new
bathroom.

10. ORIGINAL LIVING ROOM
FRONT
DOOR
Take note of all
the cupping in
the hardwood
floor.
One of two doors into this
bedroom. Since the
bedroom had no closet I will
add a closet, taking living
room space away, but
making for a much more
functional bedroom.

11. ORIGINAL LIVING ROOM
This area will become
the entrance to the
hallway leading to the
bathroom and
bedrooms.
This is the entrance to the
kitchen. We will open this
up after removing the
chimney behind the wall.

12. ORIGINAL BEDROOM #1
This room is the most challenging room to fix.
It has two entrance doors and a third door
leading to another bedroom. And, it has no
closet.
We’ll make this door a
closet door. The closet will
actually project out into
original living room space.
This door and wall area will be
reworked to allow for separate
entrances to both rooms from the
hallway.

13. ORIGINAL BEDROOM #2
The biggest issue for this room is you have to
walk through another bedroom to get to this one.
The door configuration will be reworked to correct
this.

14. THE DESTRUCTION PHASE
There wasn’t a lot of
things that needed to
be torn out but here
is the most
interesting one. This
is the chimney that
originally serviced
the wood burning
kitchen stove and
the main fireplace. It
was later lined so the
house could be
heated by an oil
furnace placed in the
basement.
This brick chimney projected
through the roof. There was
12’+/- of brick setting on top of
these four little 2x4’s nailed to
the uprights. The amazing thing
is the chimney was still in great
shape after more than 70 years.
I didn’t notice
until now that my
right hand man is
always sitting???
After the brick was torn
out it revealed the
stainless steel chimney
liner for the oil fired
furnace.

15. Removed valance
over sink and added a
nice crown on top of
the cabinets.
Installed a new
Allure floor.
Created the right
place for a
refrigerator.
Patched, caulked
and re-painted the
entire room.
THE FINISHED PRODUCT

16. THE FINISHED PRODUCT
Installed a new
Allure floor.
Installed new trim,
patched walls, caulked,
and painted walls and
ceiling.

17. THE FINISHED PRODUCT
This living room was transformed to a more open concept and provided
easier access to the rest of the house. The floors were refinished and
everything was re-painted.

18. THE FINISHED PRODUCT
Removing the door
and enlarging the
opening transformed
this entire house.
This is where that
chimney used to
be.
After removing the built-
in shelving unit and
opening up the walls we
created a hallway
leading to the bathroom
and bedrooms.
This wall is where we
added a closet to
Bedroom #1.

19. THE FINISHED PRODUCT
Here’s another look at the
bedroom closet we added and
how we opened things up to
the bedrooms.
The old entrance to the
bedroom is behind this wall
serving as a closet door now.

20. THE FINISHED PRODUCT
The old entrance
door is now a
closet door.
The door to the other
bedroom has been taken out
and the new entrances to
both rooms was re-
configured.

21. Here are the two
smaller bedrooms.
The biggest
challenge in these
rooms was re-
configuring the
doors to provide
separate entrances
for each room. The
bottom right picture
shows the new
entrances to these
rooms. We also
refinished the floors
and the walls and
ceilings were re-
painted.

22. THE FINISHED PRODUCT
This is the Master
Bedroom. Notice a wall
was added to create space
for a bathroom and walk-in
closet. The new owner
requested I leave the door
untouched because she
liked the finish it had. I
was going to paint it white.
This door leads to a ¾
Bath and a walk-in closet.
By re-configuring this
space I changed a big
bedroom into a Master
Suite.

23. It’s hard to take
pictures in tight
spaces but here
is the new
Masterbath and
walk-in closet.
Albeit on the
small side this
provides the
functionality
needed for
modern day
living.