Flip in Utah

So I’m working on getting all the after photos together, and should have something posted by the end of the week. Here’s the first…

Before:

After:

Before:

After:

So many of you have asked me where the latest update on the progress of the house is. Well, I haven’t done one for a while. Truth is, I’ve been pretty busy seeing that it gets finished. But the good news is, that it’s nearing completion. The end of this week nearly all the major components will be installed, and I’ll be ready to post the “After” photos you’ve all been waiting for. Stay tuned.

Hallway bathroom:

Master Bathroom:

Chris has completed all the trim work in the house, other than the one closet door and the front door that are still on order from Home Depot. Abraham and I have begun to paint it, and have finished most of the public spaces of the house. Check out some snapshots:

Doorknobs are also starting to be installed!

The granite was installed today, and here’s a couple shots of how it turned out:

Kitchen:

Hall Bathroom:

Master Bathroom:

All the backsplashes will be in travertine tile that matches the other tilework in the house.

I decided on the granite I was going to use today. I’m using a company called TL Custom Countertops that I had seen in the Parade of Homes.

Bathrooms: I chose remnants for both the bathrooms that looked very close to this (remants save you a lot of money):

Kitchen: And for the kitchen I chose Santa Cecilia:

Either picture is not really accurate, but it gives you an idea of where I’m going - very neutral. The granite is a solid 3cm (the good stuff), and has a very simple flat edge. (I didn’t want anything too fancy.) They’re coming to do the measure/”template” for it tomorrow morning.

I picked out the lighting for the house and thought I’d share my choices before they are shipped my way and installed in the house. It’s one more of those details that will become a part of the big “after” reveal.

Kitchen Pendants: These will go above the island and above the sink.

Dining Room: This Chandelier matches the pendants, and both are a part of an Energy Star collection of lighting.

Stairwell: The stairwell will get a simple sconce. You can see some more of the detail of the glass and metal (this matches the other two lights above)

Hall Bathroom Vanity Light:

Master Bathroom Vanity Light:

Porch Lighting: Since I’m going with the clean lines of a Mission Style, and some accents are going that direction, I thought I’d commit with the light.

Secondary Bedroom Lighting: As far as bedroom lighting, each one has a “boob” light that looks like this (this is a picture of it already installed):

Master Bedroom: And the master has the 4 can lights, and a ceiling fan in the middle. I couldn’t find a picture of the fan we got, but this one is similar. We will be NOT putting a light kit on the fan (I detest those - yuck!)

So I had mentioned before that I liked the glass on the previous front door I had picked out, but wasn’t quite happy about the bottom part. Well, that thought turned me to finding a new door. The door is on special order, so I don’t have a picture of it yet, but here’s one that’s similar that I found online:

The door will also have a “dentil shelf” that is included just below the windows that gives it that traditional craftsman style look. I like how the bottom part of the door looks similar to the interior doors, and the upper part echo’s some of the roundness of the other doors and kitchen cabinets. Here’s what the shelf will probably look like:

There’s always the risk with ordering something site-unseen. Let’s hope it works out well this time.

As we near the completion of the upstairs, all the details start to come together. So I thought I’d share some of those in a big post.

We picked the faucet for the kitchen. It has a nice basic shape, but will look good with the other brushed nickel hardware and granite countertops.

We picked some interesting heat registers to go over the areas of wood floor. (We could have just used white ones… but I guess I cared a little too much what it would look like.)

Door hardware is brushed nickel, with knobs that are rather shallow and flat. I think they’ll match nicely with the doors and trim.

The cabinet hardware is long and thin. A mixture of traditional and modern. It will add some real “bling” to the cabinets and correspond with the other brushed nickel around the house.

And toilets. Man, I never knew how difficult it would be to shop for toilets. There are so many things to compare and all of them seem different. Low flush, eco-friendly, chair-height, etc. I ended up choosing two different toilets styles, one for each bathroom. The winner will also be put downstairs.

Can covers. Now how exciting are those?

Kitchen backsplash. Since the kitchen is the center of this home, and the big selling point - I decided on a glass tile for the backsplash. It has a brick pattern that picks up the floor and cabinet colors. (It’s the one on the lower right.)

Doors and trim have begun to appear all over the house as installation progresses. After going to 2 Home Depots on several occasions to get doors and trim (they seemed to be out of stock at one or the other), visible progress has started to take place in the house. Here’s some snapshots:

This is the new trim I had mentioned in an earlier post (Above). Since I didn’t have the ceiling height of the example I mentioned in a previous post, I decided to make the wall board slightly shorter. We had some tricky points on making it work on the inperfect walls, but I think it’s looking rather sharp.

We went with a simple craftsman style trim on the windows and doors and chose a door with a “Santa Fe” style. Since most modern builder-grade homes don’t use window trim, I thought by trimming out the windows in this house we could give it a more traditional charm.