Our Secret House Flip—Before & After Pics
I’ve been keeping a secret from you all—a pretty big one! Since we sold our last house and while moving into our new house, we flipped (and have now sold) another house. Whaaaat? We are crazy, I know.
To give a bit of a backstory, we’ve owned this home for six years. In mid 2009, Scott and I were engaged and planning our wedding and pretty set on moving into an apartment until we found out the government was offering $8,000 cash to any first-time homebuyers to help stimulate the economy. So, to help pay for our honeymoon, we bought a house. Haha! How crazy is that? We had a tiny budget and finally found a teeny, tiny house that we could afford.
After three lovely years there, the real estate bug hit. We wanted to flip a home. We decided to rent out our first home and we moved to Dallas to the new house—the craziest adventure of our life.
While we were in the process of selling the Dallas house and buying our new (current!) house, we learned our tenants needed to move out. The house needed some work due to a foundation repair that caused plumbing damage, causing the floor to have to be ripped up…eek.
Every wall was re-textured and painted, the flooring was all changed, the outside was painted, the countertops replaced, the deck stained. It was really redone from top to bottom.
Scott listed this house for us and did a great job. Within 24 hours of the listing going up we had multiple offers and sold the house for over list price. We feel so lucky and blessed! We aren’t planning on doing anything exciting or glamorous with the money we made—we’ll be putting all of it (minus a bit for a fun splurge we each get to choose!) directly into savings. 🙂 So responsible!
Here are some photos for you guys:
And now, I think I will take a 3-year long nap. All this buying and flipping and selling over the past 3 months has been crazy! But so worth it! 🙂
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Tania Griffis is an accomplished writer, blogger, and interior designer with a Journalism degree from the University of Oklahoma. She started her popular blog, Run to Radiance, in 2011, demonstrating her design expertise through the personal remodeling of six houses to millions of readers across the globe.
Tania also owns The Creative Wheelhouse, a respected ghostwriting agency for bloggers, further showcasing her talent for creating engaging and informative content.
Looks so great!! Y’all did a fantastic job! What are you going to splurge on??? I want to know!
Thank you katie! 🙂 Well…i did buy a Kate Spade bag! 🙂 And we are going to go to Vegas on NYE to see Britney!! :))))
ahh it looks amazing. seriously, come do mine.
you guys are so responsible! yay for making a little extra, you totally deserve a splurge.
Thank you Kirsten! We are trying to be at least! 😛
I get that you are flipping houses for profit but I don’t agree a lot of the choices in these posts. I wouldn’t buy a house with IKEA kitchen cabinets and pay more. I wouldn’t leave baseboards. I’d remove the baseboards completely and put thicker high end wood. I hate just painting over original built-ins. I’d expect new, well built with high end wood built-ins. Not trying to be harsh as your goal would be different as you are just flipping.
Tania it’s so different than what I remember! !!!
I wish we would’ve painted it a long time ago! 🙂
Ooh what a fun surprise and project. 🙂 It looks great! XO -Alexandra
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Thank you so much! 🙂
So exciting!! What a fun secret to keep. You guys are awesome at the buying/flipping/selling. Are you ready for a show on HGTV? 🙂
It all happened so fast! And yes! HGTV…..Call me 😛
Wow! It looks so great!! Oh that sweet house. Fun memories! 🙂
Thank you Sang! So many good memories for sure. <3
You guys are amazing! Wow!
Thanks Kristy! 🙂
YES. You guys are meant for this, you do such great work!
Thank you so much Brittany! 🙂 We truly enjoy it, so that helps!
This looks so good! I love how simple and clean it all looks!
Thank you Courtney! Me too! 🙂
WOW! You guys have been busy! But you probably learned so much from the process.
Yes and yes!!! It’s always a life lesson!
wow-y’all did an AMAZING job!! no wonder it flipped quickly 🙂
Thank you Elle! 🙂
Wow–looks so good!! What type of wood flooring is that? My parents are flipping a house right now!
Hi Brandi! It’s laminate! If you go with laminate, just make sure to get a really nice underlayment! 🙂 It cushions the sound!
Wow! The house looks amazing! Not surprised it sold so fast. Y’all have been busy!
Thanks girl! You know it. Happy to slow down a bit now! 😀
Can I ask what color you used for the walls? What a lovely choice, it really updated the whole look!
I’d really like to know too! Specifically the color of the long narrow hallway? I’m about to paint my bedroom and that color looks perfect!