Painted a couple of scuffed and scratched walls in the basement this weekend. BM did a great job with paint match. Only one coat and no taping was needed - it blends right in. Now need to do the stairwell, and the walls will be done. Trim is next.
Good. I hope the outdoor folks would bring their own Honeybucket!!! One of our crews did notā¦ I donāt think they used the toilet in the garage lol. As one dude said in the interview to our local paper, āReal men need no toilet. Everywhere we go is our toilet.ā The ravine next to our house offers a lot of privacy.
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Had the water heater replaced in the kiddo condo! Looks like this will be the last project of the year. I planned to do some painting, but a giant project got dumped on me at work. 
Ugly kitchen of the week:
https://ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/200/bigphoto/522/21801522_10_0.jpg
Haha, OMG what were these people thinking.
Can be yours for the low, low price of $5.2 million.
Wowza! ?
wow.
just wow!
OK, wellā¦ I like it. I do not like the colors but I love all of the windows that open. I get so very hot when I cook and would love windows that open. Would love two refrigerators. The prep sink is good. What is there to hate? the flow is ok. NOT worth more than a normal expensive house, though.
Terrible flow. The sink is way too far from the stove. You have to walk around the giant ācontinentā to get to the stove. Or wash your veggie in the beverage sinkā¦ Not even touching the color schemeā¦
Agree w BB. Itās a very common design problem. Too many steps between work centers. And who stages a $$$ home with a wire dish rack, a random water bottle, and the old, used utensils by the stove. Yech.
Must have a lot of land and/or a great view. Where is it?
I have crummy flow in my kitchen too. No work triangle. The fridge and stove are far from each other and I have to walk around the island. We were constrained by not being able to move the exterior windows without going through the historic preservation committee which we were warned was not only costly, but very very lengthy. We also didnāt want to start rerouting the hot water radiators. My priority was the sink under a window, and that dictated the rest of the layout. Iām already used to the extra steps.
That said, I hate the colors but thatās an easy fix
It appears to be a vacation home; itās ocean front on acreage and has a tiki bar sign over the fireplace. I donāt think the kitchen layout is that bad since thereās a prep sink in the island. I love the refrigerators and all of the drawers, as well as the operable windows. If all of the perimeter cabinets were aqua with the island either aqua or some less jarring color, Iād be very happy with it. The property taxes seem incredibly low for an ocean front property of that size. My concerns would be access. Iād need an elevator inside and a funicular to reach the water - there are an awful lot of steps down to the beach.
Good job @silpat sleuthing it out. 
Itās on Marthaās Vineyard: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/11-Azalea-Ln-Chilmark-MA-02535/56893870_zpid/
My big concern would be cliff erosion.
My favorite (?) flip on Cape Cod has finally sold.
I guess itās a cautionary tale of flipping:
- Originally bought in November 2016 for $247K
- Brought to market in June 2017 for $725K
- Finally sold in December 2018 after 18 months, for $430K. A mere $295,000 less than it originally listed for!
Standard commission is 5%, so itās down to $409K to the seller. Two years of taxes brings it down to $404K.
So that leaves $157K to pay for all the renovations and other carrying costs. If they are using hard money loans for the bulk of it like @coralbrook, thatās probably, what, $40K in interest? Insurance, utilities. other closing costs have to cost more thousands.
It looks like they gutted most of the house and rebuilt it - new kitchen, new bathrooms, new flooring, walls moved. And they did a lot of work on the exterior - new windows, doors, new deck and railings, landscaping, and a lot of siding. Iād be shocked if they spent less than $100K-150K.
I wouldnāt be at all surprised if they lost money on this project.
https://www.redfin.com/MA/South-Dennis/30-Baxter-St-02660/home/108416771
Original listing: https://www.redfin.com/MA/Dennis-Port/30-Baxter-St-02639/home/77387297
Wow. They probably thought that they could recoup some of that by renting the placeā¦ I wonder if that was a wash because renters are not exactly gentle on the walls and finishes.
Off to see if one local flip finally sold. Listed for close to $1M, then down $100k, then down some moreā¦ and then featured in the local paper as an example of flipperās pipe dreams.
Whoa. The townhome we made an offer on soldā¦ for $36k below the price we offered. If they had not countered foolishlyā¦ they would not have lost that much over $3k countered.
Putting this here since itās a typical topic of conversation when remodeling bathrooms.
Oh yeah. Mr. is a huge fan of big, soaking bathtubs ? He axed so many great houses we looked at because there was no tub in MB and no place to add one.
OTOH, he hates anything smelly and aromatic. No Lush products in our bathroom! I finally won and got one Mailie candle. Only because he likes Hawaii, and it smells like plumeria.
I have a goats milk bubble bath that I love and vanilla & coconut bath flakes that are lovely, too. I have several different aromatic candles, also. I dim the spots over the tub way down, light a candle, sip my wine and listen to podcasts. Itās like Iām at a spa without leaving my house.
Not having a big tub would be a definite deal breaker for me, too.
Dh loves our big soaking tub. Itās actually a bit big for me since Iām short and have a little trouble getting out of it. No Lush products here, either, but lots of Epsom salt. His favorite is Eucalyptus Spearmint Epsom salt. At less than $5 per bag it feels like a splurge without making a dent in our retiree budget.
When we look online at houses for sale we always look for a soaking tub. Any house with a jetted tub has to be otherwise so good that it would be worth the expense of replacing it.
When we moved into an old house with old cast iron tubs, H surprised everyone with his new love of bathing. He goes in almost every day! Even in the hot summer. I found a vintage robe hook with the silhouette of a man in a bathtub, but I still have to hang it.