HILLSIDE AVE - ANOTHER WEEK OF RENOVATIONS

Happy Sunday!

Here is the recap on another week of renovations!

Our neighbors from Weldon are moving after 30 years. We are all sad that they will be leaving. CJ has been their chicken keeper for about 5 years now and they have generously given our family their chickens since they cannot take them along. We are grateful and excited to keep the chicken “farm” alive. Moving the coop, however, was not easy and thankfully we had some great help to make it happen!

Hillside is pulling together. Another really great and exciting moment was the delivery of our grand piano. This was really exciting for all of us. After buying my first electric keyboard in 1999, it has served me and our family very well through countless moves from college, military life, through now. We had vowed that once the space allowed, we would invest in a “real” piano. The folks at JML music really pulled through for us and made this dream come true. For the first time since I graduated high school, I have a real piano to play and it is a dream come true. You can believe the house is already full of great sound and several guest artists have made their debut on it!

We are still waiting on some electrical work and then the painters can return to finish their end of things. Having used nearly 60 gallons of paint, Hillside is definitely getting refreshed! We are turning to the downstairs kitchen where we will start the renovation there of replacing the backsplash, hardware, lighting and replacing the tile floor. That job is exciting but DUSTY!

Things keep progressing and we have made the move over to Hillside, so if you are looking for us, we’ll be there. Living in renovation is always a challenge, but we are hanging in there with the bulk of the work behind us. Annika has been working her organization skills in the kitchen - we are loving more space - even with all the chaos of moving!

It’s a mess, but we are getting there. Hope you enjoyed the update.

Have a great week and we’ll “chat” soon!

Casey and Crew

NOW AVAILABLE - OUR NEWEST HOME CAPE FEAR AVENUE

Hey y’all!

We are so excited to preview our next rental property! Cape Fear Avenue has finished up renovations as we speak and is ready for someone to love! We are starting to accept applications for Cape Fear Avenue now, so don’t hesitate if you are looking to snatch up our latest home!

Cape Fear Avenue features 2-3 bedrooms, and 1 bath. It has an optional dining room with a closet, that could be used as a third bedroom if desire. We have updated each and every surface of this darling home. It has a brand new front porch, all new and refinished hardwood floors throughout the home (except the bathroom which is tile and laundry room featuring luxury vinyl plank flooring). We have opened this home up to include a beautiful eat-in kitchen with island seating, downdraft range, granite counters, open shelving and stainless appliances.

The bathroom includes the freshly restored iron tub, beautiful patterned tile flooring, and awesome subway tile shower. Our Cape Fear Home offers updated roof and all new windows and exterior doors (minus the vintage front door) to provide great efficiency.

Cape Fear Avenue offers ample storage in the fully floored attic space and the garden shed outside. Like all our Haymount Homes, it is located in Haymount and the Terry Sanford School district, near 10 five star daycares and preschools, near over a dozen churches, and just down the street from the new Segra stadium and home of the Woodpeckers.

We are excited to offer you Cape Fear Avenue and hope someone special will call it home! Let us know if you might like to be that person and contact us today!!

-Casey

Want more photos!??? Scroll down to enjoy a photo tour!

GREENLAND DRIVE - BEFORE AND AFTER

We hope you enjoyed the Greenland drive home tour. As mentioned, it was a labor of love for many people involved in the project. If you are anything like us, you love the see the before pictures to help give perspective on what has been achieved.

We are not the best at remembering to take a lot of before pictures, so we need to improve on this. However, we will give you what we have so you can see how far our Greenland home came. It had been neglected for quite some time and we are so happy it has been restored to a home you can love!

Without more chat, here are some before and after photos for you!!

As you can see, Greenland has come a loooooong way! From rotted flooring to unlevel fireplaces, from wild and uncontrolled yards and trees to long past their prime roof and windows, it has been nothing short of a job. With each part of its renovation, a little more of the home’s personality came through. It was almost as if it wanted to be loved.

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

— Confucius

It is so much fun to restore beauty to our neighborhood and haymount continues to give back to all of us. Thanks for looking at this before and after photos. We hope you they inspire you to create beauty around you!

-Casey

INTRODUCING GLENVILLE AVE - OUR NEWEST HAYMOUNT HOME

We are delighted to announce the completion (or near completion anyway) of the newest Haymount Home: Glenville Ave.  This 1941 beauty features 2 bedrooms and 1 one bathroom and is on a wonderful street in the heart of Haymount.

This project was a shotgun renovation, featuring top to bottom renovations throughout, and it was completed in less than 8 weeks.  We discovered this home and realized that it needed to be brought back to its full potential and could not wait to get moving on making it shine!

Please enjoy this home tour.  Forgive the fact that everything was not perfectly cleaned up (floors still need cleaning and there are a few little things missing like the smoke detectors that are not in and a few missing outlet covers :)  They will be finalized this week.  There is also a shed that is still under construction and will be renovated as well.  Our focus was on the house for now.  Don't worry - over the next few weeks we will be featuring a bunch of blog posts with before and after photos for your enjoyment. 

Normally we stage all our homes to highlight their beautiful potential, but we were not able to do that for Glenville....because we already have clients moving in!  They contacted us prior to finishing the renovations and fell in love with Glenville.  We could not turn them away and they promised to decorate it beautifully and let us come back for pictures; we are excited to see how they make it their home!

We welcome your feedback on Glenville.  Please drop us a line and let us know your thoughts.  What did we get right? What did we miss? Though Glenville was rented before it even hit the market, there is good news in store: we start our next project at the end of the month, so stay tuned!

“House + Love = HOME”

Hope you enjoyed our tour!  Drop me a line and let me know what you think!  Have a great week!

- Casey and Carl

COMING SOON - THE NEWEST HAYMOUNT HOME!

Hey y'all!  We are so excited to be introducing our next Haymount Home!  It has been a busy summer managing the renovations, but we are nearly complete with the process and cannot wait to update the blog with all the renovation details. 

I will be walking you through our home's transformation and you will be able to see all the fun changes that bring this home back to its glory!  The posts will highlight all sorts of fun before and after photos, as well as give you links to what we used so you can find all the materials for your home renovation!

We are anxious to show you!  Stay tuned and enjoy your last few days of summer!!

Check it out!