If you’ve been waiting for a post with a little meat on the bones (not that we all don’t love This Old House’s best products of 2010), here we go. Lately I’ve started to feel like a straight-up homebuilder, considering the work on 414 East Duffy and our plans for 528 East Duffy, and now 102 West 31st Street. We’re still waiting for another lot on 313 East Park, which is tied up in some legal issues. But now I have a straight-up renovation on my hands, just like the old days. 521 East Charlton is in the Landmark Historic District, in the Beach Institute neighborhood. It’s an unusual house by the standards of the Landmark District, because it’s actually a small cinderblock cottage that was probably built in the 1940s or early 1950s, measuring about 900 square feet, with 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. There is carpet AND linoleum over the original hardwood floors, a funky little addition in the back, off the second bedroom, and very low ceilings. What, pray tell, is interesting about this house, then? For starters, it’s in a great location, just one block from Troup Square. It has a great yard with what will be 2 parking spaces. And there is very little inventory in the sub-$140k range, which is where we plan to market the finished product. It will also give me a change to work on a style of house that I haven’t done yet, which is a straight-up cottage. I’m thinking beadboard in the kitchen and baths, clawfoot tub in what will be the new second bath in the addition. Plus refinishing the original floors, adding HVAC, new plumbing and electric and tearing out the low ceilings and exposing the rafters. Should be a major transformation.
Image 1: Front Exterior
Image 2: Living Room (Yes, we will be replacing that weird old heater with central HVAC)
Image 3: Floor in Living Room (Hardwoods under three layers of junk)
Image 4: Bathroom (We'll need to jack up the floor a bit, not to mention EVERYTHING else.)
Image 5: Bedroom #1 (This will turn into a full wall of closets because the next bedroom will have a walk-in closet of its own.)
Image 6: Kitchen (Picture new cabinets and appliances and a dining nook in that right back corner.)
Image 7: Floor in Kitchen
Image 8: Soon to be Master Bath & Closet (This is the weird addition. Picture walking through a large closet into the master bath with clawfoot tub.)
Image 9: We'll be tearing out the ceiling and exposing these rafters.
Image 10: Backyard (The lot is about 100 feet deep and the parking pad will be about 20 feet wide.)
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