Last night on Good Bones season 3 we watched as Mina and Karen fixed up a two bedroom, one bathroom house with 2000 square feet of living space. The purchase price on the house was $50,000 and Mina thinks that it’s going to be a complete teardown. It’s an eyesore, to say the least.
The front porch is solid, but that’s about the only thing that is. The entire house is filled with stuff, it was clearly a hoarding situation. There are holes in the ceilings and floors and the back of the house is a danger zone. There is no roof on the house so there is a lot of water inside the house. With all of the standing water, there are bugs, but they decide to tough it out and go upstairs to check things out up there. When they get upstairs, they notice that a lot of the floor joists are broken and it’s pretty dangerous to be up there.
Mina wants to go back downstairs, but Karen decides that she is going to try and get back to the attic access stairs. She almost falls through the floor but decides to keep going anyways. There is a lot of stuff inside it and the house itself is falling apart, but Karen thinks that they can save it. Mina is able to convince her that the house has to come down and they have to build a new house on the lot. Here is what the house looked like before!
Gallery: ‘Before’ the Good Bones Renovation
The house cost $50,000, to rebuild the house, it will cost about $200,000 which would put them all in at $250,000 and Mina thinks she can sell it for $280,000. The start of demolition is cutting down the trees in the front yard and ripping down the house. During the demolition of the house, some of the house fell into the neighbor’s yard and they had some more close calls with falling debris, but they managed to get it down without damaging any neighboring houses.
They get the lot cleaned up, the foundation poured and now they finished framing the first floor and put in the floor joists for the second floor. Mina knows some potential buyers so once the framing is done, she is able to bring Kelly and Joe in to look at the house. They have been renting a house from Mina for about three years and have been looking to buy a house for the last two. Kelly and Joe are really excited about the plans for this house, but Kelly really wants a fireplace and they hadn’t planned for one in the budget. Mina says that if they really want a fireplace, they can make it happen.
They get the insulation in the walls so that they can start doing some more interior work. Meanwhile, Mina and Karen are having a design meeting to pick out tiles, cabinet color and wallpaper for Kelly and Joe’s new house. They have figured out how to work a fireplace into the budget and the tile for the fireplace has been picked out too.
The house is coming along really quickly and they are currently working on pouring the concrete stairs and picking out wallpaper for the backsplash. They are able to pick one and then get started on the flooring. The hardwood floors that they picked out for this house match both Kelly’s farmhouse style and Joe’s modern style. After they get the flooring in, Mina and Karen visit a store that makes things out of reclaimed wood. They are able to get some really great live edge floating shelves for the kitchen.
They had picked out a cherry blossom wallpaper for the kitchen which is going to go great with the green island cabinets. Karen and Mina work on putting up the wallpaper and Karen is doing so with a ladder on top of the counters, which isn’t the safest thing in the world. While she is doing this, the ladder actually loses her balance and she almost hurts herself.
I am in love with the wallpaper in the kitchen with the live edge shelves. The furniture is now being brought in and the house is being staged for Kelly and Joe. It is reveal day and this is what the brand new house looks like!
Gallery: ‘After’ the Good Bones Renovation
The house was bought for $50,000, it cost $200,000 to rebuild the house and they sold the house to Kelly and Jo for $275,000. After closing costs, Mina and Karen made a profit of about $15,000. What do you think about what they did with this house? Let me know in the comments below, on Facebook or on Twitter!
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