635 N. Bentalou- Day 1

We're happy to announce a new rehab in Baltimore City. This house is a semi-detached rowhome in a great area for both homebuyers and investors looking for solid rental properties. We were attracted to the property because it had great interior space (1300 SF), 11 FT ceilings, a garage and a full basement. Another added bonus was that it already had forced air heat, which saves a ton of money on HVAC costs.

Here is the house after about three days of work. A good amount of the demo was finished, and we'd already started working on running new plumbing lines.

Here's the house from the outside. It's kind of a mess. We're eventually going to take down all of the awnings, repaint, and install new windows. We also want to clean up the existing bushes and plant some flowers to add some curb appeal.

Here's one half of the kitchen. It's huge. This area will be tiled with 12 x 12 ceramic tile throughout. We're also adding a large peninsula/breakfast bar in the center.

This is the left-hand side of the kitchen, where the sink, stove and fridge will go. The window on the left will be framed over because the cabinets are going to extend into the space. The window and the glass in the door should provide more than enough light. We also already installed 6 recessed lights in the kitchen.

This is the dining room on the first floor. This picture was taken before the ceilings were gutted, but this ceilings are easily 11 ft tall. Roger, the guy on the left, is 6 ft 4 inches, to give you some perspective. The floors look rough in this picture, but they're actually in surprisingly good shape. We will sand and refinish them at the end of the project.

This is the main bathroom upstairs. We totally gutted it because the walls were in terrible shape. In fact, the entire house looked like this after all of the demo was finished, because the plaster throughout wasn't straight enough to drywall over. You could literally stand in the rear bedroom and see through the bathroom and two additional bedrooms and see the wall on the front of the house.

This is the master bedroom. The duct work is just terrible. In addition, the bedroom had no closet, so we ended up framing over the pass-through door and building a large closet. The closet door is on level with the ducts, so it hides the huge bulkhead.

Here's the main hall. Like the pink? It's gotta go. You can just make out the skylight, which was covered over probably 50 years ago, but we're going to cut it out and put in a new one. It should do wonders towards brightning up the place.

Here's the garage, in the backyard. We filled up this space three times with junk from the house.

Check back soon to see progress. Thanks,

Dave