It all depends in what they paid for the property, what was on there before? And how much retaining wall structure is required to support all of that sq ft built and 4 pools! Who needs 4 pools?
It is a prime piece of land above the neighbors for privacy.
Every time I see a response from CB, I think it’s going to be telling us shenhas loaded a picture of the beautiful fire place surround!!
Some things are worth the wait… 
Just starting fireplace today. Have to drill in some rebar and pour cement today to rebuild the broken mess around the bottom. Ohh…and guess what??? Schlocky prior contractor built the brick all cockeyed and out of square. We are going to have to hand build some corners and flatten out some things before we even get to the fun part
Loaded some photos of the laundry room completion. It’s not exciting (like in magazines!) but they are excited because it houses brand new water heater, brand new washer and dryer and brand new laundry sink.
Also loaded some photos of the extreme challenges trying to renovate the old fireplace
Interesting that you could stack front loaders?
Well, it’s pretty much impossible to stack a top-loader.
Have the owners considered hanging a small section of wired shelving over the laundry sink? I have that about 36 inches over the top of the sink which allows me to hang things I don’t put in the dryer to drip-dry over the sink.
I know it’s silly, but I love the laundry room! It’s clean, bright, and has everything one could need in one place!
Is there a table or some other flat surface in there? Didn’t see one and that room looks pretty small… If not, I would probably get a surface I could rest on top of the sink to give me some work area.
I have about 6 feet of rod that I can hang up clothes that go on hangers after they come out of the dryer, and have a place to hang the hangers before I use them. I find it convenient to hang everything up in the laundry area and then I can put stuff directly into closets.
After we built the walls and raised the floor I realized there is a fundamental design issue in the laundry room. The front loading washer/dryer are sold as ‘stackable’ and you can buy a metal framing kit that is mounted on top of the washer that has slots where the dryer legs go into. The kit keeps the dryer from bouncing off the washer and makes everything tight and solid.
BUT… here’s a warning to everyone. Washers and dryers are sold with their doors opening only one way (cannot be changed like a refrigerator or cabinet). Washer opens to the left and dryer opens to the right. This means you have to position yourself right in front and shimmy to right when opening washer and then shimmy to left to open dryer. Clothes transfer easily but… you need a good amount of space in front of the machines to load and transfer clothes. We only have about 3 ft (which I though was enough) but, when the doors are open that only leaves about 1 ft to shimmy around.
Lesson learned… I measured very carefully for the actual size of the machine but didn’t really spend a lot of time analyzing how it would work with both of the doors wide open. Luckily they don’t care at all… they are so happy with an indoor laundry room with new clean walls and machines.
So… luckily the pocket door to the garage is right across from the machines. We built a little platform into garage at floor level, and then the step down into garage. If necessary, the door into garage can open and there is an extra 1 1/2 ft available to back up and work with the machines. WE should have bumped the wall into garage another foot or so, but that would’ve created an awkward wall into garage AND the husband has a huge workbench there that he is not going to move 
The current space was captured out of a perfect alcove that was in the garage.
Your clinets will be fine!! I rarely transfer clothes directly from the washer into the dryer, because I want to shake the wrinkles out a bit before drying so the clothes come out nice and ready to wear! I dump everything out of the washer into a basket, then open the dryer and throw in larger items in one by one, shaking some wrinkles out, then dump the smaller pieces in one portion. (As I recall, one CCer called this technique “getting the wet ball out.” - )
I experienced the same washer/ dryer door opening issue as CB when finishing or LR 2 years ago- made the contractor switch the washer/ dryer locations-[ on the floor] so I could easily transfer wet loads.
Fortunately there was enough room behind both to hide the long dryer venting coil, and we did not have to tear up the walls and locate everything that had just been built.
phew!
To clarify, I thought that the extreme vibration of the front loading washer would make it hard to handle stacking them. But, as CB informs us, they come with a kit designed to handle that. Good to know.
Front loading machines suffer from “extreme vibration”? Did not know there was such an issue. My cat likes to sleep on the top of my washer while it is doing a long wash with several spin cycles. My top loader - thank goodness it is long gone! - would jump all over the laundry room during its spin cycle.
Well, mine does. At least in comparison to the moribund top loader it replaced.
The Miele spins very quietly, and so does the LG in the new house (I will be getting rid of that just because it is an LG). But that stacking plate is a must have safety device - no matter how quietly the bottom unit works.
I have been following along the last two houses, and of all things to jump in on, it’s the stackable front loading laundry machines! FWIW, I have a tiny LR in my 3-year-old house (the result of insisting on a laundry sink and thinking I might still want the broom closet that was in the plan) and ended up with a stackable set. However, my doors both open right to left. They’re Whirlpool Duet, I believe, nothing fancy, and I don’t recall asking about or ordering a change to the doors. The biggest issue for me is that the dryer door catch (really a prong) is at a height where my face moves past it every time I bend down to the washer and straighten back up to the dryer, so I have to be mindful not to put an eye out.
While I’m here, I’ll say that I’ve really enjoyed following along on these last two flips, @coralbrook, and I can’t wait for Flip 7!
Just an FYI… Lumber prices will go up soon.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/25/news/economy/canadian-lumber-tax/
Ridiculous.
Our dryer door can be reversed…I think a lot of them can be. It’s the washer that can’t be reversed.