https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:08:18 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521972 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:57:57 +0000 2PeasinaPod 521972@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house was 20 years old and filled with wallpaper when we bought it. So while we certainly moved in and lived in it, we already started to make it our own. We removed wallpaper from several rooms and painted. Replaced the carpet in several rooms and completely gutted and redid our half bath. I think our windows and master bath are next! It's a work in progress! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521935 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:50:34 +0000 Vegmama 521935@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are in the market for a new home right now. We either want a turn-key home (at the top of our budget), or a fixer-upper towards the bottom. We live in Portland, Oregon where homes are insane ... the market is fast &amp; quite pricey, so honestly, we'll just be happy with what we can get!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521919 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:47:32 +0000 autumnlove 521919@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: No, but the wallpaper was stripped, the decorative hutch was removed from the fireplace, the frilly wall stuff was removed, walls painted and carpet replaced! I will take a pic this week! :-) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521899 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:43:44 +0000 ladyfingers 521899@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Meh, sorta. Yes because it was flipped and they gutted pretty much everything and updated the kitchen and bathrooms, put a family room addition on the house, and put in new floors and added new paint/molding. No because they kind of did a shitty job on little things. Like, instead of using real baseboard molding, they just pieced together door molding for the baseboards, so there are visible joints where the pieces weren't long enough to cover a whole wall. WTF? A piece of transition strip (also laid in three separate pieces) wasn't cut properly to fit the wall so juts out, and just came recently came loose because they didn't nail it down properly. There are visible nails where they nailed window trim on crooked. Door stops are popping out of the walls. </p> <p>Then there are personal preferences, like, the beige contractor-grade paint they used throughout was innocuous enough, but I like more color so we had all the rooms repainted to suit us. While I'm grateful they repainted the pink exterior, they painted it peach, so that's on our to-do list. The floors are so beautiful, but are also not the most durable laminate, so they're already completely scratched up from the cat and dog and will probably need to be replaced. The grout in the kitchen wasn't sealed so the brand-new tile floor already looks disgusting.</p> <p>Etc. Nothing is ever perfect, though, and I'd much rather have these issues than having to gut and completely renovate from scratch! The bathrooms and kitchen are totally a great style for us, so we don't have to worry about saving up and doing any of that. Our biggest, most costly project when we get around to it will be landscaping -- there is zero. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521801 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:26:40 +0000 Bao 521801@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: do you have an after pic?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521776 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:21:00 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 521776@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope! There was a ton of wallpaper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521746 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:16:28 +0000 mrsmenow 521746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house is 20 years old, so it wasn't too bad-just not decorated in our style. We have painted every wall (atleast once), installed laminate and tile ourselves. My husband completely finished our basement himself. And we had new carpet installed. We also built a fence in our back yard-dug the holes, cut/stained the wood-everything.</p> <p>It has been so much work, but doing the projects together has been a lot of fun. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521738 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:15:07 +0000 Smurfette 521738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We close next week and for the most part the current owners have updated everything. We want to replace the kitchen countertops but that it just cause we like granite, the ones they have are new. </p> <p>We will have to finish the basement in a couple years once we save up the money for that project. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521711 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:07:06 +0000 PrincessBaby 521711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>God no! It needed major updating and had wallpaper in every room!!!!!</p> <p>The laundry room had wallpaper with clothes and hangers all over it that said "Laundry Day!" And the master bath had white wallpaper with a bazillion palm leaves printed on it, it was so busy! DH would walk in and start singing GNR "Welcome to the Jungle!" Fortunately we had painters taking care of it all within a few weeks!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521706 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:05:49 +0000 fairefaire 521706@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>OMG noooo. I wish! We bought a fixer-upper, and three years later we still aren't done. We have some major projects done but still a lot more to go! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521693 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:03:17 +0000 Springtime 521693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@autumnlove: you need to post an after pic! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521609 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:43:38 +0000 PurplePumps 521609@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Nope, it was partially updated, but has a lot of work to do. A brand new or totally renovated home was way out of budget (about 150-200k more) for the towns we wanted to be in. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521570 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:34:30 +0000 Chillybear 521570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house was move in ready in that there was nothing that "needed" to be done, per say. But in the 1st week of owning the place we were knocking out a wall to inset the fridge in the kitchen, reinstalling cabinets, painting and adding lighting and outlets everywhere. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521569 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:34:23 +0000 Alivoo01 521569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We bought a fixer upper realizing we'd be doing a lot of it ourselves. However, that's prior to us buying and running our own business so now we have zero free time to do any of the renovations. =( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521566 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:33:32 +0000 rachiecakes 521566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bluestriped bee: our vacation home was and our next house will have to be. DH is the least handy man I know. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521545 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:29:20 +0000 Minnie_Girl 521545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house needed (and needs!) work. But I don't mind. I'd be so bored with a house that was already perfect! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521536 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:27:19 +0000 MrsTiz 521536@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Noooo, far from it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521535 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:26:47 +0000 ShootingStar 521535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup, I bought a brand new townhouse. I bought by myself before DH and I were together, so it was really important to me that everything be maintenance free. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521526 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:23:08 +0000 autumnlove 521526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Heck no! :-) This was my house about 2 weeks ago! </p> [attach=1791/13/mh3ag3.435x351.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521522 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:22:19 +0000 yoursilverlining 521522@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our home was turn-key. Neither of us have any interest in spending our weekends fixing up stuff around the house! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521519 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:21:16 +0000 Bao 521519@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>The house we are trying to buy needs some work, and some updating. We wanted a little challenge though. I guess we will see how handy we really are ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521517 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:20:34 +0000 Rescuemom10 521517@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We were totally willing to get a "fixer-up-er" and actually thought it would be fun to buy one needing work. Ended up getting one that was perfect and move in ready. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/was-your-home-turn-key#post-521510 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:19:15 +0000 BSB 521510@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are not home owners yet but we will probably buy a home that is 'turn key' or move in ready.</p> <p>I can do DIY small projects here and there but DIY home renovation is not for us. We would have to hire someone to finish the basement, if we had to. </p>