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[The SRZ]

Old crib. 2700 sq ft 1.5 acres. Owned it 6 yrs, got divorced 3 yrs ago, sold it 20 months ago and lived w/ a friend for a few months and been living in a hotel since.


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Down sized to build on 3.5 acres w/ a acre of wetlands to the west, 1100 sq ft small custom 2bd 2bth w/ attached heated and cooled 25x25 garage 10' ceilings in entire house. That's my 30x50 in the back. 2 post life, motorcycle lift will go in...but not any time soon as I spent way more money just trying to survive the last 16 months . It'll have to wait til next yr. Should've taken 6 mos to build and has taken 16 months and still haven't closed. Maybe next week but not holding my breath, it'll be mine soon enough. Just me and my 3 cats!
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[popo8]

Wow... just beautiful man!!!

LTXtech.com IS my drug...
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[SexyTransAm]

My shack. And shop in the back were the black car and blue car sleep


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[Formula218]

Here's a pic of my place from last spring. We have way too big of a back yard, I need to fill it in with a pole barn.
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[Fastbird]

@The SRZ -- Silas those floors are AMAZING. Stained concrete?

Here's my new place. Took a few years but finally landed upright and got re-situated after everything went crashing down back in 2010.

It's 3192 above ground footage, and has another 900 foot partial basement that's roughed in with insulation/electric already. Have plans for that. Three car split garage, connected inside, in an L shape. Builder garage, so unfortunately both sides are narrow, but deep at least. This ended up being the first place we looked at, and I know that's a rule not to buy the first one, but every other house we looked at within the same price range gave up around 1/3 the size in living space (most were 2000-2200 sf).



Living room after I ran some boxes and hung the TV (the speakers aren't in there anymore, just didn't look right, so it's a TV and soundbar now).


View out of the front living room, it's VERY nice being on a cul-de-sac for the kids.


Kitchen. Needs updating. Plan is to eliminate the dining room, turn front living room into that, and extend/widen kitchen through old dining room.


View from doorway to dining room to back of living room. There's a eat in/breakfast area between the great room and Kitchen.


Dining room that's a home school room for now.


Front living room that's overflow space for now.


Entryway through front door.


My space. The office right off the front door. MY room only I decreed. Do my line locks and harnesses in there, have my computer, and my cards.


Upstairs at top of stairs. There are 4 bedrooms. Master is at top right of stairs, had dual closets, a HUGE bathroom with dual vanities, huge soaker whirlpool tub, and big walk in shower, separate room for the toilet within the bathroom. Two bedrooms on either side of the hallway at house mid point, ok size. One HUGE double size room at the end over the garage, that has a bedroom section and a entertainment room section, it's the actual largest room in the house. No pics of all that.


Garage:


Tucked safe and sound in her own area.


House was built in 1998, and is on a FUNKY .4 acre lot. Narrow, but VERY wide since it's on the "corner" of the cul de sac. We initially wanted to purchase in the country on some land, but decided to go for a neighborhood for the kids sake, and we couldn't have found a better one. Everyone around is SUPER friendly and there's a TON of kids around our kids age in the neighborhood. House is showing it's age in terms of appointments, but we're going to slowly update as we see fit.
@meissen......show it off man. And all the technical wizardry.

[The SRZ]

@The SRZ -- Silas those floors are AMAZING. Stained concrete?

Sean, funny you asked this. Initially it was supposed to be stained concrete but after the house was framed I noticed no power for the island. They had a pipe there and I thought they'd run it through the pipe but that was for plumbing! LOL I've been at my site EVERYDAY and my contractor only when big stuff was being done. So I mentioned it to him and he was like "oh sh!t, that's an oversight". I couldn't believe it but from what all my contractor friends say down here, GC's can't catch everything. So because they had to cut my floor 8 ft in length the concrete wouldn't match and he said we'll come up with another solution. The real funny thing is, when I started searching for designs on stained concrete floors in the planning stages before I signed a contract, images like the above were popping up and that's what I wanted. So when we finally got to the point of actually doing the floor after the oversight we didn't know that this was a 3D epoxy setup. LOL Mine is a water based 2 stage metallic slate and since he messed up my initial floor plan he had to eat it but I absorbed 50% of the cost because the materials are expensive. In FL for the sq ft I have, it's a 15k floor. It's all in the prep and I can believe it. I've got a few flaws in it but it adds character to the floor so I'm not butt hurt over that considering stained floor only cost 500 bucks to do. And the real kicker is since this build took as long as it did and I didn't sue for breach of contract, all the money I've put out I get back and he built at a net loss. God don't get me started...

[Formula218]

Some of your houses make me hate my house lmao.

We like in a kinda shitty city (Lansing, MI) and have a 5-7ish year plan to move to someplace with a little more property and privacy. I want at least an acre, but at the same time don't want to be more than 10-15 from town (most importantly a grocery store)

[meissen]

That house is awesome Sean! I'm jelly on that garage -- even being a builder garage and narrow on the sides, at least it holds the 3 cars.

Thanks for the tag. We've been doing a ton of work at my house. We took possession November 2015 and have painted damn near every single room in the house. The only two rooms we haven't touched are the spare bedrooms.

2600sqft colonial, 4 bedroom 2.5 bath, unfinished basement, wide 2 car garage but shallow depth - I literally only have inches to spare between my Camaro's bumper and the garage door. The other down side is it's technically a site condo belonging to a home owners association. Otherwise it was pretty much everything we were looking for in a house. We wanted a wide garage, a big kitchen, basement, decent sized rooms.

Trying to find pictures to show - I realized I have a bunch of before pics but not so many recent pictures.

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Not the best pic, but you get an idea of what the garage looked like when we took possession:
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And how it looks now - note how tight it is for both fbodies front to back:
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Master bedroom and the on-suite bathroom:
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Master Bedroom after paint:
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My son's room before it was painted - I don't have any photos of the "after"
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Added a fence to the back yard:
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My den / home office before:
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Den / home office after -- pics were taken at different stages lol
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What used to be a blank corner of my basement:
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Now a perfect spot for my workbench:
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Foyer before:
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Foyer after:
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Kitchen before:
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After paint -- notice the stupid ass ceiling fan. Who does that? And it's off center, which drove us nuts.
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Got rid of the stupid ass ceiling fan, added chandelier, centered:
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Most recent pic I have with the tile floor - will need to snap some completed pics:
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Half bathroom on the main floor off the kitchen - before and after collage:
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Great room before:
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Great room after:
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Added a gazebo to our back patio - cigar smoking heaven:
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And as Sean mentioned - I've been a complete home automation / techy geek in the new house. Especially with multi-color lighting:
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[Fastbird]

@meissen Brian your house is super nice man! I love how you have the stairs overlooking the great room. We've just got a little 3x5 landing over one corner of ours.

[meissen]

Thanks! Yeah we love having the stairs right there too. I love coming down the stairs while Josh is in the great room and he sees me coming down the stairs and just gets a huge smile on his face