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Wynn:

Hey, Wynn Martin here at a project house in Savannah. We’re in the carriage house, we ran into a little bit of a design issue. We got Chris Norman here with

Chris:

Southern Home Solutions

Wynn:

Southern home solutions and Ed, here, with

Ed:

Reliance Cabinetry.

Wynn:

Reliance Cabinetry. So what happened? The original plan had a sink, a stove, and a dishwasher. We looked at the window and as we reconfigured, drawings came out but the drawings aren’t always the scale. And they had a fridge here and cabinets up here so that doesn’t work. So we’re here today meeting and trying to figure out how do we, how do we solve this problem to make it functional and economic? So option one would be, I’m sorry, leave the window. Just kind of make this space kind of, it just wouldn’t look, it wouldn’t flow. Option. Number two would be reframe this window, bring this up to here, giving you enough counter counter space smaller window. And then you put the siding on the outside and, and make it look good. But it’s still, you still have some dead space here. You don’t know where you’re gonna fit fridge. So because it’s kind of limited. So the third option is what I think we’re gonna go with delete the whole window, drive all over it, take it out, frame it in, put the siding on the outside, giving you a whole wall that you can now use for whatever kind of design you want with anything.

Chris:

Alright, so, you know, of course with redesigning anything, we, you know, there’s the pros and cons. So taking this window out, reframing it in, repairing the siding, of course, on the outside. One thing that I would like to point out with clients is, you know, we can try to patch it in, but typically unless we reside it, you’re gonna see kind of a variation in the material outside. So it’s going to look like a patch so much on, on this. I don’t think it’s the side of the house over, over there. It’s not so much of a big deal. It was the front of a house. I was say, let’s tear off some siding, you know, and, and do the length. But here, I mean, we’re talking about about $600. As far as this, you know, re- repairing the siding outside, tearing this out, reframing it, putting sheetrock here so we can have a microwave cabinet of course along with that electricity, venting all’s got to be put in. Moving the stove, you’re gonna have to rerun the electrical for that. And also putting the dishwasher over here, we’re gonna have to lower the electrical for that. So those are just some of the pros and cons, probably looking a thousand, $1,200 by the time you get all said and done. But it’s gonna give you the functionality that you guys are looking for to, to, and, and for the people living in the house to, you know, have some type of functional kitchen.

Wynn:

And as always, when you’re doing a flip, you always want all the money put into a project to be worth more than on the backside. But sometimes we run into issues like this. I don’t know if we’re gonna be able to get the money out of it, but it’s something that you need to do. Maybe we’ll be able to squeeze a little extra money out because it, because it’s gonna look a little bit better than if it would, if it were broken up, you know, you run across things like this all the time. Hopefully not on your projects, but running across it on mine where you just, you come across an obstacle that you never thought of once everything was designed and you just have to, you know, do a little bit of an audible, figure out how to, how to make it work. So

Ed:

Prioritize the, the items, you know, you must have that are most important to you or to the buyer. And then base everything else off that. Step by step.

Wynn:

Yeah. Great point. So before, we didn’t have a dishwasher, there was nothing in the design for a dishwasher. Now that we’re getting rid of this window, having a whole wall gives us more space for everything. We’re able to add a dishwasher over here next to the sink which will be a desirable feature for somebody who, who rents it or buys it. So try to make the best of a unfortunate situation, but that’s why you have a good team around you. That’s why I have Ed. That’s why I have Chris that we all put our heads together and come up with the best, best option.

Chris:

So typically I’m, I’m right around $10k or $12k for, for, you know, the cabinets, the granite and the install on a smaller kitchen. You know, that’s probably more reality. And then you’re gonna have another, you know, $3,500 for, for your appliances. So that’s kind of where I, I look at things. This is a more of a kitchenette, so there wasn’t a lot budgeted for it. Because we were just going with the original thing, but being, you know, the type of rental that you’re wanting to do, is it gas, do they want to make it more and more functional for a buyer to, you know, show functionality, get the most for the rent. So that’s why we’re even having this conversation and, and adding more. So they can actually get more for their rent.

Wynn:

Have 15-inch cabinet. So we’ll have a base cabinet, a dishwasher, and then the, the sink is gonna be diagonal, single-basin sink diagonal we’ll have a cabinet, the stove, microwave, another cabinet. Then the corner’s gonna be the refrigerator. We’ll have uppers along this wall. And I think what we’re gonna do over here just for size, we’ll just put some open shelving, open shelving here to kind of, you know, tie this space in.
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