#rehabbing houses

[sassygrrl32]

Rehabbing Three Houses in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee | Ground Zero by Sassygrrl32 by Rachel Holbert Jones

My new blog at https://rachelholbertzero.wordpress.com which is Ground Zero By Sassygrrl32 is about the three houses I’ll be rehabbing in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. I’m going to be here awhile due to the amount of work that needs to be done to the houses. They’re very old and need tons of repairs, updates and also need to be brought up to current city codes to be considered habitable which I…

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Gorgeous 1829 townhouse fixer upper in Philadelphia, PA has 6bds, 3ba. I hope a flipper doesn't come in and modernize the bejeezus out of it. It has 4 levels and is so historic, it had a little shop in front. They're asking $950K, but when it's done, it will be worth about $2 or $3M, I bet. Maybe more. (I hate the remodel next door, though.) Well, let's see what we've got here.

So, the entrance to the home is on the side, b/c of the shop in front. I would have to open something in that shop, if I had a house like this.

This looks like an original gas light outside.

This is so beautiful, it needs an expert in historic restoration. Look at the cupboards, the doors, ceiling, and brick.

Closet in the corner of the room.

Step down from the residence into the shop. Is this cute or what?

And, it has a little restroom with a marble backsplash. Look at the light switch- it's the old pushbutton kind.

Back in the residence, there's a lot of restoration needed. Don't forget that the house has 4 levels.

These walls must be restored. No drywall. It looks like someone already started to paint the ceiling.

Great fireplace in here. Ditch that paint, it reminds me of an old public restroom beige.

I wonder why they have bars on this door and a little window. Who or what was in there? I wouldn't mind taking that plaster off and exposing the brick, but that's an outer wall. I don't know if brick would be on the other walls.

Stairs to the 2nd level. Note the steepness.

A front room on the 2nd level has a fireplace and the outer wall is brick. This must be a sitting room. B/c of the shop, the living quarters would start on this floor.

Closet behind the fireplace.

Pocket door to the kitchen.

I think that this would be the dining room.

Then this would be the kitchen.

This may be where the stove would go.

There was a bathroom in the room to the right.

Got to be a bedroom with 2 closets.

Here we are on the 3rd level. Someone started to dismantle the house, but the buyer will have to finish it.

They stripped all the ceilings, and maybe they could stay that way. In this bedroom, they have a lot of doors that were removed.

So, 2 brick walls in here. This home is going to need so much rehab, I'm beginning to think that if it's done right, it could be worth as much as $5M, now.

The attic rooms on the 4th level.

We can see how bad the ceilings are and why they have to be torn down.

Now, this is the basement. There's even a fireplace down here. This could be stunning w/a bar, like a little speakeasy.

This is cool- there's a door to go out on the roof. I wonder if you could put up a pretty iron railing and make a deck.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1221-Pine-St-Philadelphia-PA-19107/10196788_zpid/

[jameswilsonsupremacy]

my offering for House MD tumblr, brought to you by my friend (who doesn’t watch House)

what does this mean abt me guys :(

[moodboardmix]

Rehabilitation of a Historic Building, Sitges, Spain,

Courtesy of Rado Architects

[despazito]

Remember those like 90 raccoons that were seized from a shady "rehab" in Ontario? They were all euthanized

[bioethicists]

irt poverty/homelessness + alcohol use (esp with @butchfeygela‘s tags on my post)- people really underestimate the function that substance use/alcohol use can have for someone who is unhoused. being unhoused is boring, cold, painful, + lonely. substances can allow the 8 hours panhandling to get the $45 you need for a motel to fly by. alcohol reduces your perception of the cold + can knock you out whben you can’t sleep. substances can help you cope with the physical deterioration from malnutrition, constant stress, + sleeping outside. substances can provide social connection with others who you would otherwise not enjoy or help you cope with being alone.

not only that but- many unhoused people are stuck in a seemingly inescapable position. the pathway to financial stability or even housing is difficult or even impossible. in the wake of that hopelessness, the downsides of substance use start to seem insignificant. arrest? you’re getting arrested anyway for sleeping outside, peeing outside, standing in the wrong place, etc. physical danger? you’re already beat the fuck up, anyway, right? loss of relationships? you’ve lost most people already. inability to keep a job? nobody will hire you + you can’t stay employed, anyway, because you have no car + no shower.

perhaps for you or me, the cons of heroin use or binge drinking nightly greatly outweigh the pros. that isn’t the case for everyone. if we are really serious about ending overdose/addiction, we need to start looking at giving people lives worth recovering into instead of shaming them for their own hopelessness.

[lazybakerart]

wilson coming to house's defense by going on the offense and telling stacy 'you can't toy with him'

[laniidae-passerine]

what I love about the Ushers is, yes, some of them didn’t deserve it. Leo was just any drug addicted asshole who treats the people around him like shit but he clearly cared about his family even when they hated him and he grew up around drugs and addiction. Tammy was emotionally and verbally cruel to Bill and coerced him into a life he didn’t want but she did love him no matter how hard she tried to hide it and she wanted to be a better person. Lenore was just a girl who hoped for a kinder world for her mother and herself, who did nothing wrong but trust in her grandfather. That’s the point. Some of the children are horrible and violent and unkind and some of them are just people, messy, disturbed people. They deserved a chance just like anyone else. But they don’t get one. When somebody gambles your life before it begins, before you’re even conceived, you lose. When we let the rich and the powerful play God and do awful things, the poison seeps all the way down. Even to the good ones. Even to ones who could have been good. Nobody ever wins.

[notbecauseofvictories]

I realize this is a weird question for a Sunday morning, but does anybody have particularly incisive articles about the tension between architectural preservation and the need (because I do think it's a need!) for new buildings, new spaces, and revising the landscape of a city?

I'm watching a piece on Richard Nickel, who is almost single-handedly responsible for photographing the work of Louis Sullivan and other architects of the Chicago Prairie School, prior to their demolition in the 60s. It's a great piece, and I love Nickel's photographs, but as someone who knows only the Chicago that sprang up in the wake of Nickel's, I can't help but wonder if there's more than simple aesthetics at play here.

[thoughtportal]

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Addiction and class

[shots-of-whiskey-and-wilson]

wilson if you don't put those big sad wet puppy eyes away right now...

[sassygrrl32]

First Post of Brand New Blog-Rehabbing Three Houses~Rachel Holbert Jones Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Here I am, all set up and ready to go. I’m in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee to rehab, not one but three houses. This means I should be here awhile. We (my Uncle and his business partners) decided to get me set up in a camper on the property of the first house we are rehabbing. It’s quite a large piece of property and we found a relatively flat place to set this camper up since I will be here…

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I want to go thru this 1890 mansion in Plainfield, NJ with you. It needs rehab and I hope that the new owner will preserve its beauty. It has 19bds, 11ba, and is $399,999 and they want cash, only, so clearly, they're looking for a flipper or developer to buy it. Let's take a look.

I think that the wood can be saved.

It was used as a business, most recently. Look at the rounded wall. It appears that the ceilings are the worst- lots of water damange.

Wainscoting along the hallway walls.

Beautiful fireplaces still intact. Look at that, it looks perfect.

Beautiful oval leaded glass window and an original light fixture.

I can't believe how the fireplaces are preserved. Isn't this a beauty?

Here's another one. I would say that these are bedrooms.

Wow, the roof or plumbing must've leaked, b/c the ceilings are the worst. There are pocket doors to this room, which is probably a sitting room.

Rounded room with a beautiful fireplace and chandelier. Look at the crown molding and wainscoting.

I'm surprised that when the business was in here, they didn't ruin it.

I hope that they preserve this. Somebody put an ugly lock on it.

By the looks of that thing on the house, there's a commercial kitchen. Maybe it was a restaurant.

Details of the exterior. What would you do with this? Give it a light power wash? Leave it?

The house next door is an eyesore.

There's a nice screened in porch. The lot is .69 acre.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/808-Central-Ave-Plainfield-NJ-07060/2075267636_zpid/?

[jameswilsonsupremacy]

sometimes I’m like

damn it makes sense that nobody who knows me actually likes me???? Because like—I am violently transgender/queer, plus I’ve been to rehab. (I live in a small Catholic village in the Midwestern USA)

but then I open tumblr and see everyone loves House for the exact same things???? so basically i think I should move to New Jersey and be a doctor

[garashir]

the implications of crosscutting chase and camerons wedding with wilson dropping house off at the psych hospital

[funguy-not-fungi]

what difference does it make by the smiths is hilsons song-----you cannot convince me otherwise