My tail started wagging when I saw this one hit the market in late summer 2016! I was so glad we had the proceeds from the Los Osos house to make this happen. This 1898 historic home was just a few blocks from the downtown Paso Robles Park and was in bad shape. Cat stench was everywhere. The attic looked like a dumpster. The interior needed a complete gutting.
But the location and Professional Office zoning made this little property a diamond in the rough. It needed everything: electrical rewire, plumbing, attic clean-out, central AC & heat, interior wall resurfacing and painting, flooring removed and refinished to expose original floors, kitchen and bathroom demolition and remodel, landscape w/drip system, deck removal and rebuild.
You name it, we did it.
We purchased it for $337k and invested about 75k to repair. Once completed, we ran it as a very successful vacation rental for about 1 year until someone made us an offer we couldn’t refuse! I sold it direct to buyer who was a broker for $535k in the summer of 2018 .
This project really tested my limits and left me needing a bit of a break. I’m just starting to think about my next project. Waiting for the right one…
Click on the photos to flip through the before and after slideshow!
The hot mess house 
Looking grungy 
A look of determination 
The old deck 
ripping off the deck 
framing the new pergola 
after paint and deck rebuild 
Looking sharp 
getting ready for landscape 
After paint, before landscape 
New drought tolerant landscape is in 
How the kitty’s got under the house, yuk! 
Before-Living room 
Before-Living room 
Before-Living room, front door opens the wrong direction 
Before-Living room window AC 
After-Living Room 
After-Living Room 
After-Living Room 
Before-Kitchen 
Before-Kitchen 
Before-Kitchen, this is what happens when you clean out the attic! 
Under Construction-finding the original Kitchen floor 
Before-Kitchen built in’s 
After-Kitchen 
After-Kitchen 
After-Kitchen 
After-Kitchen 
Scary Attic 
Ceiling stepped through during Attic clean out 
Before-Bathroom 
Before-Bathroom 
Before-Bathroom 
Construction-a bath vanity once lived here 
Construction-a bath vanity once lived here 
Dad working on the plumbing 
Dad working on the bath plumbing 
Tub is finally set 
After-Voila! 
After-Voila! 
After-shower tile 
After-shower tile 
Before-Back stinky cat room 
Construction-gutting the back room with family 
Construction-finished sanding the back room floors 
After-Back Bedroom with full bed 
Before-Front bedroom 
Before- Master bedroom 
After-Master bedroom 
Before-floors 
Before-floors 
Revealing original floors! 
Construction-My son helps me pull up the floors 
Construction-Look at him go 
so much fun 
Construction-old floor furnace needs to be removed 
Yeh Justin and Zack got the furnace out! 
He think the whole in the floor is super cool! 
Sanding the floors 
Sanding the floors 
Look at the black=many many many hours of sanding 
Sanding the floors 
What are we going to do with that whole??? 
patching the furnace whole in. 
Looking beautiful 
Wow! 
Before-Laundry room 
Construction-Laundry room wall framing 
Laundry-Drywalling and protecting the new electrical 
Laundry-Just needs appliances 
Hi 
The fumes are getting to me! 
Choosing paint 
living room-Love this white! 
Kitchen-painting cabinet doors 
Staining the floors, had to go darker to hide patching 
putting up lighting fixtures 
Living room in progress 
Living room new front door 
Justin & Kellan make a door out of reclaimed barn wood 
Nice work boys! 
front bedroom to bathroom 
front bedroom 
After Bathroom 
Setting up the back porch 
Setting up the back porch 
grape vines planted for trellising 
found a use for that old chair 
Pomegranate tree in bloom! 
My favorite 2 guys help me with landscape 
Landscaping the front yard 
Laying the drip line 
Laying drip line 
Laying the drip line 
These will fill in nicely 
New landscape now needs to grow 
cute new front door 
starting to fill in 
spring is coming, almost done! 
Spring in construction
