PROJECT NASHVEGAS

Saturday, July 21, 2012

SUPER POLL- PLEASE VOTE!

As mentioned in the previous post, we need help deciding the finished “curb appeal” of Project NashVegas (look near the top right of the page)! I have my siding installer scheduled for next week however I need YOUR help in picking out the color & accessories. You can quickly see the current exterior of the house by looking at the top/background of this blog and here is a link to show the new roof color;

http://www.iko.com/images/res/swatches/Cambridge%20-%20Driftwood.jpg

This poll will end on Monday so please vote as soon as possible- I need to bring in the material from Ohio at the beginning of next week. There will be some upcoming poll questions regarding landscaping, etc so stay tuned! While these polls are kind of restrictive, I welcome any and all advice on exterior possibilities- simply comment on this post and I will see your suggestions. Please feel free to show this page to anyone you’d like and please solicit their opinion on design choices- I would appreciate any input I can get!

POLL QUESTION #1- PICK A SIDING COLOR

I haven’t figured out how to post pictures for poll question answers so I am asking you to review the link below and vote for your favorite siding color (click the icon that says “See Available Colors). Since there may be some people who are not super “tech-savvy”, I have added an “other” slot so you can write in “Dark Gray” or “Mastic Siding Inc. Tuscan Olive”, etc…;

http://www.mastic.com/Products/Siding/Ovation%E2%84%A2.aspx

POLL QUESTION #2- FRONT PORCH: PICK VINYL OR WOOD

ALSO, I am going to do something different with the front porch area- I really like the shake/shingle look however I am not sure what direction to take it. Our options for this area will be either a vinyl shake product or an actual cedar shake that I will stain- here are links for a vinyl shake and a gallery of wood shake- note that they are about the same price and they will need to “work” with whatever vinyl siding is ultimately decided;

VINYL SHAKE (Pick a style and click “See Available Colors);

http://www.mastic.com/Products/Siding/Cedar_Discovery%C2%AE_Double_7%E2%80%9D_Perfection_Shingle.aspx

WOOD SHAKE (Scroll through the gallery to see options);

http://cedarshinglesdirect.com/galleries/index.php#solid

POLL QUESTION #3- PICK THE SHUTTERS

LASTLY, I need to put shutters on the house. This question pretty much revolves around what style of shutter do YOU think would look best. I have included a link of styles below;

http://midamericacomponents.com/homeowners/products/category.aspx?GID=1144

2 comments:

AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 7:37 AM
Board and Batten shutters are a must. WP
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AnonymousJuly 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM
I'm not sure where you are supposed to comment on the colors if you don't like any of the ones on the quiz. I say - pebblestone clay or some dark grey color for siding. a natural colored wood (like that house on shelby) for the shake - vinyl or wood - whichever is cheapest. or you could go rugged canyon - and then paint the shutters the same color. cc
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JOE'S INTRO

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! Since I have started this forum a week into my project I thought it would help if I gave you some background on the events leading up to my relocation. In addition, I have posted a few brief posts on each room just so you can see some “before” pictures and the initial work that has been done over the last week- most of this has been demo/rough work so there won’t be any glamour shots just yet. I am tagging each post by room so hopefully you will be able to see the rooms develop simply by looking at the
history of each tag. Like I said in the blog description, please send over ANY and ALL comments regarding the blog and
the house. I am looking for everything from design ideas to technical advice to blunt criticism- all of this feedback will help me in some way! Also, please look around the page as often as you can because I hope to add features and rearrange the layout as time progresses. Lastly, please take a minute to complete the survey in the right sidebar. Being that I am color blind and male, I have no idea how to decide on the “cute” details for the finish work (paint colors, materials, trim options, etc.). I will be changing these polls frequently and they will play a huge part in how I complete each room.

Thanks again for checking in on me!

Joe

THE PROJECT

My name is Joe and I have created this blog to document the progress of my first complete home remodel. In May of 2012 I left my job & life in Ohio to attempt to make a living by remodeling distressed homes for a profit- I have relocated to Nashville to follow my girlfriend as she begins a 2 year fellowship in the area. Armed with the knowledge of my father, the support of family & friends and the financial backing of an investor, I started work on the first house and hopefully a new career path on Friday, 31 May 2012. Please keep in mind that this is my first attempt at a blog so consider it a “work in progress”! Also, please post any and all comments because I would appreciate all of the feedback I can get as this thing evolves!

THE BACKGROUND

While the entire Nashville plan was technically set in motion in the spring of 2011, my dad and I made our first house hunting trip on Saturday, 14 April 2012. In February 2012, I was connected to a fantastic agent who specializes in dealing with distressed properties in the Nashville area. We decided to center our search around Historic East Nashville. From my research, this area entered a rebirth about 15 years ago and is now a very progressive, eclectic neighborhood within minutes of downtown- I would compare it to Ohio City/Tremont for my Cleveland friends and Oakley for my Cincinnati people. Unfortunately, with our timing, the heart of East Nashville has been turned and the houses are now beautifully restored and extraordinarily expensive! In an effort to stay as close to this community as possible we continued looking into the nearby Inglewood neighborhood. We actually found a house and struck a purchase agreement within days after our first trip however we decided to pull the offer because of some negative street information that surfaced at the 11th hour. Our agent continued to email similar listings & comps and I took a solo trip down on 23 April to tour our eventual house. The home was horribly neglected and virtually uninhabitable after going into foreclosure/abandon almost 2 years ago however it showed a ton of potential if we could get it at the right price. We then began what we would later describe as one of the most inefficient and insanely bureaucratic processes of all time-dealing with Fannie Mae/The Government! Fannie Mae uses a program called HomePath which requires a mountain of paperwork for the realtor and a negotiating process that is completely tilted in the governments favor. We made our initial offer on 25 May and spent the next FIVE WEEKS renegotiating, filling out paperwork, waiting for emails/phone calls, etc. - it was extraordinarily frustrating and will probably mark the first and last time we deal with this type of purchase. We finally closed on 25 May however we had to wait almost another week to go through the process of having the electric
connected (up to this point we had no idea if anything worked in the house and had only toured a couple of the areas with a flashlight). I made a trip down with a friend on 30 May to drop off my personal effects in a storage locker and attended a “Walk Off the Earth” concert downtown- the trip was a great time and the concert was as amazing as we expected. I went back to Cincinnati the next day to pick up my dad and our family’s 30’ Mallard camping trailer which would be my home for the next 3 weeks! My dad and I parked the trailer on the front lawn and started working on the home the morning of Saturday, 02 June 2012.