Steel's House (for TAZ and anyone else to look at)

Here you go, Taz. I know you wanted to see them. There's also a bonus at the bottom (it's still just the house, don't get excited).

The house from outside just after I bought it:


The garage (it still looks like this, pretty much):


Looking from front door past living room down hallway (before and after):


Looking at the fireplace in the living (looking left from previous photos - before and after):


Kitchen from the living room (before and after):


Kitchen from the hallway (before and after):


Kitchen sink shot after remodeling (you don't want to see it beforehand, trust me):

Office; used to be a small bedroom - smaller than BC's, so I converted it (before and after):


Bathroom - on the right was a straight wall because the closet for the /office/ was there, on the left is the thinnest vanity I'd ever seen in my life, along with a small linen cabinet. We took care of all that You can't see it, but there's now a rather large (and nice) linen cabinet beside the sink now. (Before and after shots):


Main bedroom (when looking down the hallway, at the end to the left). Room shots are hard, you know? Second shot is from the far corner looking to the hallway. The doorway on the right wasn't there before. My laundry room was this odd shaped thing with a toilet in the back. We decided to split the room in half, making a true half-bath out of the back portion, with it opening up into the main bedroom. (Before, during, and after remodeling.)


Spare bedroom (hard to see, I'll admit; before and after):


There's other things we did that I don't have pictures for, but that's most of the rooms, now to the bonus........

I think only Morty would be able to guess exactly what happened here, so I'll tell everyone else: this is Ike's handiwork. Yep, a hurricane in Ohio. We had sustained winds of over 70mph for more than an hour. Funny thing is, I took a quick walk, was gone maybe 10 minutes, and when I got back, there it was.

I made up a joke about this: What do you get when you cross a tree with a house? A tree house, of course! What do you get when you cross a house with a tree? A large insurance claim!

Hey, at least I got a new roof for free. The tree is over three feet in diameter at the base where it broke, and still stood about 30 feet over the roof afterwards.

There are no Home Depot discounts, but if you have an account, you often get 10% off coupons, and we had an account.

My insurance paid me. I wouldn't be surprised if my insurance company went after my neighbor's insurance company, though.

I was without electric for four days. I guess that was about average. I heard of other people that didn't get power back for nine days. I had my roof done by that time.

Flipping? In this market?