Downtown Luxury Slum

I designed a kitchen with the IKEA Home Planner and researched our historic designation.

We paid our due diligence and earnest money, met with a couple architects, decided on a contractor, and started looking into historic restoration tax credits.

Although we had hoped to purchase a house downtown eventually, we weren’t really looking yet. But a friend asked us to go look at a house with him and we fell in love. After consulting with a couple contractors about the cost of renovation, we put in an offer and after a few counter offers,…