For those of you saying that not much was done after having spent $35,000.00 - here is what was done. The entire condo was painted; floor in office replaced; floor in main bath replaced with marble; countertops in kitchen and bath replaced; sinks replaced with undermount sinks; faucets replaced in kitchen and bath; kitchen walls tiled; appliances replaced; cupboard doors replaced; new kitchen and bath hardware; light fixtures throughout the condo; outlet covers replaced (there may have been minor electrical repairs done as well); mirrors in bath; accent wall over fireplace; floating shelves in kitchen; cost of labor; and finally, the cost of staging.
People don't understand cost obviously. Heck my master bath cost me over 20k and I did all the work. My father was a master carpenter, so I picked up a thing or two. I already had an amazing kitchen, so didn't cost as much to repaint the cabinets, add new paint, counters, floors, lighting and appliances. Oh and I did subway tile in the kitchen to cut cost since my beautiful marble tile was 100x more. I do wish I could throw everything in this house away and start fresh. Hubby's mom and granny left him so much I feel that really just dates it so much. Even thought I have a ultra modern bathrooms and kitchen. I think the actual furniture and design Is one of the most important aspects.
The renovation you did on the Condo was night and day difference. Anybody who starts and stops projects toys she did has no business even starting because they can take the value of the home DOWN REAL FAST!!!! I wish you guys would tell us what the houses sell for like you did in the beginning. I definitely appreciated that❣️ Great job ladies♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
She is nervous about selling a newly renovated condo!?? I would be nervous about doing DIY electricity work as a novice, then throwing the covers away because you don't need them! 🤦♀️😮😮😮😮😮 The reno is beautiful.
Having a very definite taste of your own and not accepting other people have one also seems so weird. When you sell , you cannot expect other people to live in your choice of colours. But what is common sense is to leave at least a safe place behind with electric wires covered.
I thought that same thing. I wonder if she meant she threw away the outlet covers to replace them with new ones? That makes sense. I don't think she truly likes it but it's not for her to dislike. She's selling it. Appeal to the buyers.
Love, love, love watching you sweet sisters. It is so funny when you say the same things at the same times. Love your staging so much, so cool. Such fun to watch.
She couldn't get herself to the store and buy more electrical plates for 1.00 each?? She starts something, gets bored, and walks away." She's like a big immature baby. As for the cost, I had a partial reno of one bathroom and it cost me 11K. This place was totally redone and it's beautiful.
When I'm shopping for a house, empty is exactly what I want to see, but that is so rare. I can't see myself in a house with other people's idea of their home. I want it gone so I can see the real house with all the faults and all the possibilities. The furnishings get in the way of my possibilities. All houses should be shown empty, but evidently most people are easily swayed by artificial distractions that play on their emotions in order to manipulate them.
Ppl are stupid. Average IQ in USA is 89. And HALF are stupider than THAT. I don't understand how these idiots find jobs and are able to pay their bills.
I completely agree. I came down to the comments to say something very similar. I've been shopping for my first house for a while now, and it bugs me when the first two photos, which pretty much always the living room and bedroom, are "virtually staged to show the potential". No, it shows YOUR view, I need to see an empty space to be able to visualize what I will do with it. The other thing that bothers me about the photos on websites is that the pics are all kinda random, out of order, and too zoomed in. I'd almost rather have the floorplan instead.
@@nuttybutnice1 I was a commercial space planner designing office space for leasing people in a large city. When I retired I was happy to let go of that work which was high pressure time wise, and preparation of drawings for construction permitting and cost estimating was anxiety producing. I down-sized to a new area and tried in vain to convince residential realtors there to pay to have simple floor plans prepared for posting online along side the photographs. They all looked at me like I had no idea what their business was all about, even when I tried to entice them with only $100 or even free to demonstrate the value of a floor plan. Nope. But they'll pay for staging sometimes or get the seller to do so. They would never even ask a seller to pay for a floor plan. I just don't get it.
@@virginiamoss7045 Very interesting post about the skills used in your career. And Floor Plans! They are widely used in other countries as an aid to sale. Sometimes even shown on the multi-image sales board at the front of a property. BUT....now you've got me wondering. Are Floor Plans losing favor in the RE industry. Are they considered 'old fashioned' or 'unnecessary'. One suggestion is that a younger generation, who've largely grown up without map reading skills, may not be able to read a Floor Plan. I'm with you...a Floor Plan, with it's look-down view, gives a good feel for the flow of a house, and how it will be used. Love the description of your work 👏
@@mattyd3079 Possibly, but having watched a number of these abbreviated videos many are cut off several minutes before they end. It is probably to fit a certain time frame required by TH-cam. Who knows. I just find it aggravating.
@@tropicaldepression8202 So they got the price they wanted, and a little bit more. It's a lovely space to live in. I don't know the area at all, but in Australia where I live, something like that would be triple that price.
That dog pee means she did not only take care of it, but neither did she take care of the dogs. Only in one room, she had left them there for who knows how long😭 This is the first time ever I dislike a person on HGTV. Hope her mother won't let her have animals at her place. She needs to grow up. I am admiring L&L for not yelling at her, like she would have deserved.
The Realtor should have told her she needed to fix things before selling. Her Realtor did not seem to give her a good dose of Home Truth about styling and cleanliness. I can't believe how STUPID that owner was. No Electrical plates, fake brick ( The wall paper was not even well installed), No Kitchen Cupboards and a room stinking of Dogs wee. If she thought she was into DIY and style she is sadly mistaken. Talk about ruining a perfectly ok place and then trying to sell it in that condition. It looked beautiful after the reno although it was not cheap at $35k.
Not a fan of removing kitchen storage and replacing it with a few little decorative shelves never meant for kitchen stuff. No kitchen has too much storage. I don't think the owner is stupid. She was just in way over her head with the DYI projects because she didn't know enough to understand the scope of what she wanted. She needs to start very small and get some experience. Maybe take some classes first. As for throwing away the electrical covers, I can't imagine why she would think she didn't need them.
It always amazes me how stupid people can be fooled when a designer uses less furniture to make a space look bigger. I always love how designers avoid the fact that people actually use electronic media like video and computers and just don't always sit in a cozy corner reading and visiting.
Many people like minimalism and the look of an uncluttered stage looking home. A media center is easy to integrate and so is a small office. This comment is quite stupid.
@@danasamiere2160 My opinion is no more stupid than your own. A good media center is not easily achieved and an idiotically placed TV set over a fireplace is not a media center. Even the people on HGTV that everybody worships like Joanna G or the Property Bros sometimes are especially clueless when they ignore that their clients have a TV, a Stereo and a computer in a room before they remove it to create a reading nook or an insipidly placed study room that only might be used for a year or two before everyone in the family tires of it. Do you have a degree in Interior Design or just lame uninformed opinions.
A lot of things could have been done cheaper and better. Marble is porous and a bad choice for "wet" areas. The kitchen worktop also looks very expensive.
At first, I felt a bad for the owner trying to DIY her own electrical problems. I thought maybe because she couldn’t afford to hire a licensed electrician... Then found out she wanted nothing more than fame and fortune by being a famous TH-camr! Seriously, who was watching her Channel... People with bad taste? Two words come to mind, “Mint Green”. I honestly don’t think she appreciated the two women who fixed her condo, not with her attitude... And saying, “I’m going to put Mint Green in my new house!” I’m sorry, that comment doesn’t exactly scream grateful to me!
yeah the price is ridiculous. but the tiles in the bathroom were 900 dollars floors alone and this is without the vanity. new flooring in de bedroom, wood on the mantle. kitchen tiles etc. yeah i think 35 grand is a bit overpriced the real price is probably about 6000 dollars.
Next time know you get overwhelmed that you cannot hold your thought and do not attempt renovations which then cost you dear, mentally and physically. Best of luck in your new home.
I just don't get how she left the outlet plates off. I changed all mine in probably less than 2 hrs in my condo. Also did you all notice that she didn't even have doors on the bottom kitchen cabinets? WTH??? On the other hand, I usually don't like open shelving but I have to say the tile on that wall is gorgeous! Also that owner was very immature.
@sandralnwebster3204 There's a post from @tropicaldepression8202 up the thread. Saying it sold for $260,000. So the owner receives $212,000 for the sale - instead of the original asking price of $199,000. And the sisters clear $13,000 over their $35,000 renovation costs.
If the new owners could have used a little imagination they would have saved a ton of money, bought the condo at a much cheaper price and did the few renovations themselves, or even hired someone. People have lost the ability to create.
In what universe is that rather plain, a little awkward, and pretty small space worth a QUARTER OF A MILLION dollars. Holy gods. Real estate is a gigantic fucking rip off.
@@Jessicaro changing the floors, diy back splash, removing the outlet face plates, terrible wall color. Wasn't anything original from the pictures 4 years that was a perfectly nice looking house
So they spend money remodeling and staging it, but left the ugly and torn up blind on the door. Ugly!! The owner seems very immature and needs help on how to dress herself.
@patriciarobinson5909 There's a post up the thread from @tropicaldepression8202 who wrote that the condo sold for $260,000. So, job well done - everybody happy!
You can tell the owner is quite child-like, it's nice that she has people like Leslie and Lyndsay that she can reach out to and can help guide her.
I literally have a "what the he** were you thinking" moment with all of her way of thinking and ideas about the house. She's soooo lucky.
Exactly my thoughts. Don't know if she deserves the help.
“Child-like” you’re way too nice... I was thinking more like stupid, lazy and immature.
@@janedoe805 I wanted to make my point without being rude and judgmental.
@@janedoe805 Guys the woman is highly anxious, why all the nasty adjectives?
For those of you saying that not much was done after having spent $35,000.00 - here is what was done.
The entire condo was painted; floor in office replaced; floor in main bath replaced with marble; countertops in kitchen and bath replaced; sinks replaced with undermount sinks; faucets replaced in kitchen and bath; kitchen walls tiled; appliances replaced; cupboard doors replaced; new kitchen and bath hardware; light fixtures throughout the condo; outlet covers replaced (there may have been minor electrical repairs done as well); mirrors in bath; accent wall over fireplace; floating shelves in kitchen; cost of labor; and finally, the cost of staging.
People don't understand cost obviously. Heck my master bath cost me over 20k and I did all the work. My father was a master carpenter, so I picked up a thing or two. I already had an amazing kitchen, so didn't cost as much to repaint the cabinets, add new paint, counters, floors, lighting and appliances. Oh and I did subway tile in the kitchen to cut cost since my beautiful marble tile was 100x more. I do wish I could throw everything in this house away and start fresh. Hubby's mom and granny left him so much I feel that really just dates it so much. Even thought I have a ultra modern bathrooms and kitchen. I think the actual furniture and design Is one of the most important aspects.
A wall was removed making the project go up 10 thousand and they had to replace flooring.
Lovely makeover. Looks fresh, open but cosy.
The renovation you did on the Condo was night and day difference. Anybody who starts and stops projects toys she did has no business even starting because they can take the value of the home DOWN REAL FAST!!!! I wish you guys would tell us what the houses sell for like you did in the beginning. I definitely appreciated that❣️
Great job ladies♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Scares me to think what she will do with her new home.
I love these girls. I just don't understand why so many shows uploaded don't show the ending.
So you buy cable or their streaming service and then get to watch more about it or how it ends. STONKS!
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She is nervous about selling a newly renovated condo!?? I would be nervous about doing DIY electricity work as a novice, then throwing the covers away because you don't need them! 🤦♀️😮😮😮😮😮 The reno is beautiful.
I took it as she was nervous about buying the actual house she was moving into. Maybe?
well she invested 35 thousand extra probably nervous if she gets her money back
She's so clueless about DIY. Should learn first what she should and shouldn't do 😓
@@Jessicaro The girls put the money up into the house not the owner.
Sue here: lol!!!
These 2 sisters are so talented. How do they come up with these design ideas? All transformations look so beautiful and inviting.
Great job and that tile work is banging
That homeowner wrecked that condo with her "DIYs" - it's so much better now!
I honestly think, based on her reactions that she doesnt like it. But she tried to be polite but it's transcending. hahaha
She doesn't have to like it since it was tarted up for sale.
Having a very definite taste of your own and not accepting other people have one also seems so weird.
When you sell , you cannot expect other people to live in your choice of colours.
But what is common sense is to leave at least a safe place behind with electric wires covered.
I thought that same thing. I wonder if she meant she threw away the outlet covers to replace them with new ones? That makes sense. I don't think she truly likes it but it's not for her to dislike. She's selling it. Appeal to the buyers.
I don't want ANY open shelves in my kitchen.
"I threw away the wall plates because I didn't need them anymore." Huh?
These ladies are really good at decorating.
People who bad taste shouldn't be allowed to do DIY - the home owner almost ruined her house
If #PinterestFail were a condo.
Love, love, love watching you sweet sisters. It is so funny when you say the same things at the same times. Love your staging so much, so cool. Such fun to watch.
Owner should do no DIY in her next house
She couldn't get herself to the store and buy more electrical plates for 1.00 each?? She starts something, gets bored, and walks away." She's like a big immature baby. As for the cost, I had a partial reno of one bathroom and it cost me 11K. This place was totally redone and it's beautiful.
When I'm shopping for a house, empty is exactly what I want to see, but that is so rare. I can't see myself in a house with other people's idea of their home. I want it gone so I can see the real house with all the faults and all the possibilities. The furnishings get in the way of my possibilities. All houses should be shown empty, but evidently most people are easily swayed by artificial distractions that play on their emotions in order to manipulate them.
Ppl are stupid. Average IQ in USA is 89. And HALF are stupider than THAT. I don't understand how these idiots find jobs and are able to pay their bills.
I completely agree. I came down to the comments to say something very similar. I've been shopping for my first house for a while now, and it bugs me when the first two photos, which pretty much always the living room and bedroom, are "virtually staged to show the potential". No, it shows YOUR view, I need to see an empty space to be able to visualize what I will do with it. The other thing that bothers me about the photos on websites is that the pics are all kinda random, out of order, and too zoomed in. I'd almost rather have the floorplan instead.
@@nuttybutnice1 I was a commercial space planner designing office space for leasing people in a large city. When I retired I was happy to let go of that work which was high pressure time wise, and preparation of drawings for construction permitting and cost estimating was anxiety producing. I down-sized to a new area and tried in vain to convince residential realtors there to pay to have simple floor plans prepared for posting online along side the photographs. They all looked at me like I had no idea what their business was all about, even when I tried to entice them with only $100 or even free to demonstrate the value of a floor plan. Nope. But they'll pay for staging sometimes or get the seller to do so. They would never even ask a seller to pay for a floor plan. I just don't get it.
@@virginiamoss7045 Very interesting post about the skills used in your career. And Floor Plans! They are widely used in other countries as an aid to sale. Sometimes even shown on the multi-image sales board at the front of a property. BUT....now you've got me wondering. Are Floor Plans losing favor in the RE industry. Are they considered 'old fashioned' or 'unnecessary'. One suggestion is that a younger generation, who've largely grown up without map reading skills, may not be able to read a Floor Plan. I'm with you...a Floor Plan, with it's look-down view, gives a good feel for the flow of a house, and how it will be used. Love the description of your work 👏
Do you get an owner after making the house over NOT wanting to sell cause its so beautiful.
My exact thoughts!
so... did they sell it?
I always want to know how much a property sells for and that is getting cut from too many of these videos.
Maybe she got no offers and had to go back to her original price - and they didn’t want to show it 😂
@@mattyd3079 Possibly, but having watched a number of these abbreviated videos many are cut off several minutes before they end. It is probably to fit a certain time frame required by TH-cam. Who knows. I just find it aggravating.
They sold it for 260K
@@tropicaldepression8202 So they got the price they wanted, and a little bit more. It's a lovely space to live in. I don't know the area at all, but in Australia where I live, something like that would be triple that price.
She bought a condo & Totally Trashed it in 4 yrs & then wonders why no one wants to buy it
The owner destroyed the condo in four years.
That dog pee means she did not only take care of it, but neither did she take care of the dogs. Only in one room, she had left them there for who knows how long😭 This is the first time ever I dislike a person on HGTV. Hope her mother won't let her have animals at her place. She needs to grow up. I am admiring L&L for not yelling at her, like she would have deserved.
The Realtor should have told her she needed to fix things before selling. Her Realtor did not seem to give her a good dose of Home Truth about styling and cleanliness. I can't believe how STUPID that owner was. No Electrical plates, fake brick ( The wall paper was not even well installed), No Kitchen Cupboards and a room stinking of Dogs wee. If she thought she was into DIY and style she is sadly mistaken. Talk about ruining a perfectly ok place and then trying to sell it in that condition. It looked beautiful after the reno although it was not cheap at $35k.
If she thought that mint green paint was going to convince anyone to tour a second time, she was sadly mistaken.
Didn't they say the owner is selling it?
Boy, do I ever agree with you. This lady lacks common sense with all the issues you mentioned.
Not a fan of removing kitchen storage and replacing it with a few little decorative shelves never meant for kitchen stuff. No kitchen has too much storage.
I don't think the owner is stupid. She was just in way over her head with the DYI projects because she didn't know enough to understand the scope of what she wanted. She needs to start very small and get some experience. Maybe take some classes first. As for throwing away the electrical covers, I can't imagine why she would think she didn't need them.
MOST buyers have absolutely no imagination!
It always amazes me how stupid people can be fooled when a designer uses less furniture to make a space look bigger. I always love how designers avoid the fact that people actually use electronic media like video and computers and just don't always sit in a cozy corner reading and visiting.
Many people like minimalism and the look of an uncluttered stage looking home. A media center is easy to integrate and so is a small office. This comment is quite stupid.
@@danasamiere2160 My opinion is no more stupid than your own. A good media center is not easily achieved and an idiotically placed TV set over a fireplace is not a media center. Even the people on HGTV that everybody worships like Joanna G or the Property Bros sometimes are especially clueless when they ignore that their clients have a TV, a Stereo and a computer in a room before they remove it to create a reading nook or an insipidly placed study room that only might be used for a year or two before everyone in the family tires of it. Do you have a degree in Interior Design or just lame uninformed opinions.
What?
I love the area above the fireplace
You could have put a much cheaper porcelin tile on the bathroom floor with a marble pattern... and not had slippery wet tile.
A lot of things could have been done cheaper and better. Marble is porous and a bad choice for "wet" areas. The kitchen worktop also looks very expensive.
$500 for kitchen hardware???!!! And marble floors in a BATHROOM?!! Smh!
At first, I felt a bad for the owner trying to DIY her own electrical problems. I thought maybe because she couldn’t afford to hire a licensed electrician... Then found out she wanted nothing more than fame and fortune by being a famous TH-camr! Seriously, who was watching her Channel... People with bad taste? Two words come to mind, “Mint Green”. I honestly don’t think she appreciated the two women who fixed her condo, not with her attitude... And saying, “I’m going to put Mint Green in my new house!” I’m sorry, that comment doesn’t exactly scream grateful to me!
what?!?! she doesnt have a youtube cannel
I would love an update on the sale of this condo.
The owner had terrible taste
What cost $35,000?!? A little tiling in the kitchen and a macrame on the mantel?
yeah the price is ridiculous. but the tiles in the bathroom were 900 dollars floors alone and this is without the vanity. new flooring in de bedroom, wood on the mantle. kitchen tiles etc.
yeah i think 35 grand is a bit overpriced the real price is probably about 6000 dollars.
Oh! Those macramé and furniture are stagings only, they're rental, 34k is only the reno. Home buyer gets empty house.
I was wondering the same thing
What kind of ending was that? Where is the bit that tells how much they sold it for and how much they put in?
Next time know you get overwhelmed that you cannot hold your thought and do not attempt renovations which then cost you dear, mentally and physically. Best of luck in your new home.
I really hope that boho macrame trend has gone bye-bye now
The condo turned out cute. But please, no more staging with macrame.
That's amazing that she thought that condo would sell with that dog pee smell and all of her unfinished DIY work and unflattering colors🙄
I wanna know how much it was sold for.
@wintersonnet There's a comment from @tropicaldepression8202 up the thread saying it sold for $260,000.
35,000 for the reno⁉️ Where⁉️
One or two open shelves but not taking away from enclosed kitchen cabinets. It is a "trend" that is fading out of necessity and practicallity.
I just don't get how she left the outlet plates off. I changed all mine in probably less than 2 hrs in my condo. Also did you all notice that she didn't even have doors on the bottom kitchen cabinets? WTH??? On the other hand, I usually don't like open shelving but I have to say the tile on that wall is gorgeous! Also that owner was very immature.
She’s a horrible homeowner, her attitude is so crummy
HGTV has sooooo many "different" shows. I'd like to host a show called... take down the main wall for open concept with shaker cabinets.
Ah,what happened? How much did
they sell for,etc.???????????????????
@sandralnwebster3204 There's a post from @tropicaldepression8202 up the thread. Saying it sold for $260,000. So the owner receives $212,000 for the sale - instead of the original asking price of $199,000. And the sisters clear $13,000 over their $35,000 renovation costs.
If the new owners could have used a little imagination they would have saved a ton of money, bought the condo at a much cheaper price and did the few renovations themselves, or even hired someone. People have lost the ability to create.
Everett? Really? That explains some things.
Haha! That's my exact thought while reading through the comments
In what universe is that rather plain, a little awkward, and pretty small space worth a QUARTER OF A MILLION dollars. Holy gods. Real estate is a gigantic fucking rip off.
I wonder if she wanted to stay living there?
Something seemed a miss with that girl…
Oh no, don't allow this seller to do any more DYI BECAUSE she is so bad at it. I agree she ruined her current home. Thank heaven for these sisters.
Crying over a first house that she destroyed
well removing the doors of three kitchen cabinets and some socket plates isn't exactly destroying a condo
@@Jessicaro changing the floors, diy back splash, removing the outlet face plates, terrible wall color. Wasn't anything original from the pictures 4 years that was a perfectly nice looking house
@@danztheman83: I bet she also threw away the kitchen doors she took off to create the open shelving.
So they spend money remodeling and staging it, but left the ugly and torn up blind on the door. Ugly!! The owner seems very immature and needs help on how to dress herself.
Guess it didn’t sell!
@patriciarobinson5909 There's a post up the thread from @tropicaldepression8202 who wrote that the condo sold for $260,000. So, job well done - everybody happy!
took off electrical plates and cupboard doors. Good thing she stopped before she could do more damage.
Well?
I didn't like her disposition or her attitude.
Pros vs laymen... quite obvious.
She threw away the outlet covers because she didn't need them any more? This chick is clueless.
Hate the kitchen shelves.
she destroyed it and these ladies had to come back? oiy!
Owner has zero common sense.
🍒🏡🏠🙄😁😇
The home owner destroyed her beautiful home with her DIY.
i like the condo it looks amazing but i highly disagree mint is still super in my opinion
She is so immature and completely wrecked her first place.
First world issues. Shame on her.
Do not try DIY to the owner! not her cup of tea
Home owner is a one trick pony. Maybe. Only able to perform her real job
Mint green🤮
fake show cancel just like all the rest