{"id":37310,"date":"2017-11-19T19:04:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T00:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=37310"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T15:04:41","slug":"the-fixer-upper-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=37310","title":{"rendered":"The Fixer Upper #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s time for another look at the fixer upper.\u00a0 If you missed the first two posts, you can see them here<\/a> and here<\/a>.\u00a0 You know that saying that things have to get worse before they get better?\u00a0 Well, the house is literally down to the studs with no electricity or water.\u00a0 The fireplaces have been torn out, too.\u00a0 Now it’s time to start putting it back together.\u00a0 I have just a few photos today because we had to cut our visit short and head to the emergency room.\u00a0 The no floors and no electricity mean that even on a sunny Sunday afternoon, the interior was pretty dark.\u00a0 So, Mr. Right promptly fell into a pit where a fireplace had once been.\u00a0 If you knew him, you would understand.\u00a0 The man is driven, and he just puts his head down and goes.\u00a0 He cut a huge slash in his forehead that required stitches, and got some pretty bad bruises, too.\u00a0 He was leaving that week for a bicycling trip in New Zealand, and thankfully, he was still able to go.<\/p>\n

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Although it is clearly still a fixer upper, the exterior has improved.\u00a0 First off, the roof has been replaced, and the house has been treated for termites.\u00a0 The ailing trees have been cut down, the awnings have been removed, and the ugly, dirty outdoor carpet on the porch is gone.<\/p>\n

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It is literally down to the studs.\u00a0 There’s Bobo smiling his big grin.\u00a0 He is so happy.\u00a0 You would think he was about to own a castle.\u00a0 He wants to change the floor plan and has some really great ideas.\u00a0 The dining room will be the first room on the right followed by the kitchen.\u00a0 The bedrooms will move to the back of the house where the kitchen and mudroom were.\u00a0 If I can figure out how to do a floor plan on line, I will show you all in the future how it will be laid out.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0That dark hole in the bottom left of this photo under our watermark is where Mr. Right fell.\u00a0 It was very dark in the house that day.\u00a0 I lightened up these photos in editing before putting them in the blog.\u00a0 Did I mention to you that the house had absolutely ZERO insulation?\u00a0 There was just plaster and studs.\u00a0 Nothing else.<\/p>\n

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There you can see that insulation has been added.\u00a0 The crawl space will get sprayed-on insulation under the floor to help keep the floors warmer.\u00a0 Mr. Right is big on insulation so it will be everywhere there’s a spot to put it.<\/p>\n

Keep coming back for more updates.\u00a0 I am headed over to the fixer upper today to take some photos.\u00a0 The subfloor is being installed.\u00a0 This is going to be a slow process, but it will be done right so that Bobo will have a nice home for his family.<\/p>\n

And by the way, if you live in Lexington and have a table, chairs, end tables, bed headboards, etc. you want to get rid of,drop me an email or mention it in the comments.\u00a0 Bobo needs everything – even dishes, pots and pans, towels, sheets, etc.<\/p>\n

Take care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s time for another look at the fixer upper.\u00a0 If you missed the first two posts, you can see them here and here.\u00a0 You know that saying that things have to get worse before they get better?\u00a0 Well, the house is literally down to the studs with no electricity or water.\u00a0 The fireplaces have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[3,13,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37327,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37310\/revisions\/37327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}