We started upcycling furniture in 2020 — we've now made over $1M flipping entire homes
A couple shares their experience renovating a historic home, highlighting key design challenges and transformations including a custom headboard, a newly built en-suite bathroom, and a finished attic space. They also uncovered a hidden brick chimney and discuss their outdoor land potential. The project is part of a broader furniture upcycling and home-flipping business that has generated over $1 million.
Summary
The transcript follows a homeowner giving a tour of a renovated property, discussing the design decisions and challenges encountered throughout the project. In the primary bedroom, the speaker addressed the unusual challenge of having too many windows, solving it with a floor-to-ceiling custom wavy headboard and layered curtains to draw attention away from a window positioned awkwardly behind the bed.
The en-suite bathroom was described as the project's biggest expense, having been built entirely from scratch in a space that previously had nothing — described as a 'weird add-on' to the bedroom. The finished result includes a double sink vanity. The room design process was lengthy and intentional, with the goal of blending historic character with modern amenities.
Moving to the third floor attic space, the speakers note that they recognized its potential immediately from the listing photos, despite it being completely unfinished at purchase. It has since been transformed into a multi-purpose room. A standout discovery during renovation was a chimney hidden beneath plaster — after chiseling it away, they revealed beautiful brickwork that they feel complements the wood floors throughout the home.
Finally, the speakers mention their outdoor space of over half an acre, which they consider a significant asset, and express hopes of eventually building a pickleball court on a portion of the property.
Key Insights
- The speaker solved the design problem of a window behind the bed by installing a full wall-to-wall custom wavy headboard and layered curtains to visually distract from the awkward window placement.
- The en-suite bathroom was cited as the biggest expense of the entire project because it was built entirely from scratch in a space that had no bathroom infrastructure whatsoever.
- The speakers identified the attic's potential purely from listing photos before purchasing the home, despite it being completely unfinished at the time of purchase.
- The brick chimney was an unexpected discovery — it had been completely covered in plaster and the owners had no idea what was underneath until they began chiseling, ultimately loving how it complements the wood floors.
- The speakers view their half-acre of land as a significant asset and have concrete future plans to build a pickleball court on a portion of the property.
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Transcript
[0:00] One of the hardest design challenges I had with this room was the fact that there was so many windows. So, we did a full wall-to-wall custom wavy headboard and did a ton of curtains to [music] kind of distract from the fact that there is a window behind this bed. Our biggest expense to date is on-suite bathroom. Believe it or not, there was nothing here before. It was just kind of a weird add-on to our bedroom. So, we ended up building this entire bathroom from scratch. We were able to fit a [0:32] beautiful double sink vanity. We spent so long designing this room because I wanted it to feel historic, but also have all of…
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