Camellias & Copper – And Our Houses

Happy Hump day, friends! I am so excited to start sharing some of our renovation projects with y’all! For whatever reason I’ve mostly kept that part of my life {our family business} separate from Camellias and Copper, but with some exciting projects on the horizon, I wanted to begin sharing a few things here – because I think you will enjoy them! Don’t worry, I’ll continue posting about having my legs waxed and the crazy things the kids are up to – this is going to be in addition to all of that.

Today I’m going to start with a house that we are working on in a sweet, “older” neighborhood. One where, if you went for a walk, most of the folks you would see would be grandparents. And don’t get me wrong, I live in one of these “older” neighborhoods myself and I love it immensely. Give me hardwood floors, big old trees, camellias and front porch stories all day long. We are hoping that this little area will start adding in some new and young families as well, and even that one will purchase this renovated house once it’s complete.

The house we bought, just a few weeks ago, is next door to a precious couple, Bruce and Betsy. They are an older, retired duo and I got to spend about 45 minutes chatting with them outside one day last week – when it wasn’t raining. {It has rained SO much lately!} This sweet couple told us how happy they were that someone had finally come to pick up all the stuff that had been left from an estate sale {y’all…it was so bad}. I posted a couple of videos on our Instagram page about the trash haul…I personally haven’t seen that much stuff in a house, under a house or behind a house in a very long time. It.was.bad.
Ms. Betsy told me that the big red box we had there at that time was either the 11th or 12th one that had been there… I felt so bad for her, that these sweet neighbors had lived next to something that brought on many feelings of displeasure and frustration. They couldn’t do anything about it and the people that could, weren’t willing to.

As ‘flippers’, our intention is to bring value to the home, the neighbors around the house and the immediate community. We clean up the derelict as Ms. Betsy called it, and make it better than it was. We want the people who buy our renovated properties to drive up and be overjoyed with first impressions and then for that excitement to build with each step into the house.
I don’t do ‘cookie cutter’ – each house is unique in my mind. It’s going to be a special family, person or couple that will purchase it, and though I don’t ever know the end buyer, I try to always put myself in their shoes. ‘How would I use this room, this space, etc.?’ and how can we utilize the space in the most efficient manner.

I’m super excited to share with y’all how we do this. What some of the processes we go thru before we purchase a property, my thought processes when it comes to tearing down walls, figuring out layouts, colors, finishes, etc.

It’s gonna be fun.

In the meantime, enjoy these “before” pictures of the house next to Bruce and Betsy, that we are close to finishing. I can’t wait to show y’all the reveal in a few weeks!

If you have any questions about this post or the house so far, drop me a comment!

Until next time…