Rehabs Revealed: Chicago Part 1 of 4 – Exteriors

December 16, 2014

This is a new entry in my Rehabs Revealed series. Each Wednesday for the next 4 weeks I’ll highlight a different aspect of this rehab. It will demonstrate how my team does what they do so well and, hopefully, give you some ideas you can use in your business! In Part 1 this week, we’ll take a look at the outside. Scroll through the images as well as read a little about how we got started on the project below.

Outside Improvement Strategy:

This property is a classic Chicago two-story house with a partial brick exterior along with vinyl siding. Furthermore, the house was built in 1944, it also has a detached garage.

The landscaping was a bit challenging on this house for two reasons. First, everything was overgrown. Secondly, there was a big hole in the backyard where a pool used to be. We had some dirt brought in to level out the back yard. You have to have the vision to see past the ugly things, whether they’re on the inside of the house or on the outside.

Once the bushes were trimmed down and we added flowers and flower boxes, it really created a nice curb appeal. Although this house was only 1,178 square feet, it really turned out with a nice layout on the inside and a great curb appeal on the outside.

Here are some of the SKU’s we used on the outside of the house:
Material list (exterior):
Base Paint – Garden Wall (Behr PP 730D-4)
Trim Paint – Cornerstone (Behr PP 330E-2)
Accent Paint – Intellectual Gray (Behr PP UL260-2)
Front Door Paint – Roasted Pepper (Behr PP 180D-7)
Door Handle – Kwikset Smartkey (745-825)
Numbers – Hillman Group (844-043)
Mailbox – Repainted existing

In next Wednesday’s post, I’ll take you inside the house to show you where we started and what we did to transform from an old house to someone’s dream home.