I have been reading a book lately Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love and it has been incredibly inspiring. I am not quite finished yet, but as far as I can tell it is going to be a great book. There are some BookNotes coming as soon as [...]
Categories: Chicago, Projects, The Green House
Tagged: Chicago, entrepreneur, Real Estate, Real Estate Photography, rehab
Hello to all the house bloggers out there. I have just recently signed up for accounts at The Green House Effect and Houseblogs.net. So while posting my random musings and rants about my eco-friendly condo conversion here at Deconstructing Purpose » The Green House, I will be able to reach more like minded individuals by having my posts [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: houseblogs, Real Estate, syndication, the green house effect
I took some time off around the holidays with a few goals in mind. One was to spend some time with family, which was awesome. The other was to knock off a bunch of things on my checklist around the condo. I had almost an entire week, and I think I did pretty good.
The big [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: corian, counter tops, electrical, garbage disposal, kitchen, plumbing, Real Estate
The new Corian countertops were installed on New Years Eve and there was still a lot of work that had to be done before we were ready for them.
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: cabinets, diy, ikea, kitchen, Real Estate
Since day one I have looked at the purchase of my first condo as an investment first and a place to live second, thus I have been managing it as such; like a business rather than as a home. However, being a first time homeowner I expected to have a certain level of emotional attachment [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: bedroom, paint, painting, Real Estate
We went to Ikea the other weekend, for the 3rd time in almost as many weeks, to pick up everything we needed for the second Stage of 3 for our kitchen. The third and final stage, should becoming just in time for christmas, involving countertops, backsplash, and the upper cabinets.
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: cabinets, ikea, kitchen, Real Estate
We hit the Jackpot on Craigslist again last week. This time in the form of a dishwasher to round out our set of stainless steel kitchen appliances. We picked up a 3 year old top of the line, Bosch 800 series dishwasher for $400.
The woman we purchased it from was remodeling a 3 [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: criagslist, dishwasher, electrical wiring, kitchen, plumbing, Real Estate, the condo
The following photos perfectly describe my life over the past month as I have been rehabbing my condo.
As you can see it isn’t as glorious as they make it out to be in shows like, Flipping Out, Property Ladder, Flip This House, and Flip That House. There is a whole lot of dirty dishes, dinners [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: Real Estate, Real Estate Investing
I’m still here… just been a bit busy, and haven’t had very much time, motivation, energy to post…
In the meantime Grassroots Modern is sponsoring an Affordable Modern Kitchen Design Contenst Go check it out… lots of inspiration… Here are a few gems from my favorite.
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: contest, modern kitchen, Photos, Real Estate
I picked up some pretty nice looking louvered doors for the laundry/furnace room a few weekends ago on craigslist. They were a steal at $50 considering my home away from home, Home Depot sells much lower quality doors for around $100, and with this god-for-saken Illinois taxing scheme, it means I saved well over [...]
Categories: Chicago, The Green House
Tagged: closet, doors, laundry, Real Estate, the condo