What’s been going on with that mod home renovation in Woodshire that was featured on Swamplot last September when it was aiming for a $775,500 sale price? Plenty!
The property appeared in a Chronicle featurette in October. Later, it went on a short holiday vacation from the MLS — interrupting a sequence of 6 separate price reductions and one relisting. It stood and beamed for a whole new portfolio of listing photos (shown here). And today, the home’s redesigner, Jamie House, has posted her own account of many of the decisions and efforts that went into the transformation of the 1956 property she worked on with Dave Seeburger of P&G Homes — along with an entirely different set of before-and-after pics.
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P&G bought the 3-or-4-bedroom, 3-bath home in May of 2013 — for $240,000. Since the home’s latest markdown last week, it’s available for $684,000. The 9,392-sq.-ft. lot it sits on backs up to Stella Link, 4 blocks north of the South Loop. The home measures 3,304 sq. ft.
Here’s the completely redone studio, held aloft over the carport at the rear of the home:
- Mid-Century Brought Back to Life [Jamie House Design]
- 9231 Fordshire Dr. [HAR]
- Before and after: The revival of a midcentury home in Houston [Houston Chronicle]
- Previously on Swamplot: Where a Cool Half Million Has Taken a Woodshire Mod
This house has already been posted like 6 weeks ago slow news day I am guessing
Maybe theres not really a sucker born every minute!
Silly flippers, real estate is not for kids.
the problem isn’t the house, the problem is that it has a bus stop on the other side of the property on stella link, add in the riff raff that goes to worksource (and yes i mean riff raff, you don’t wear pajama bottoms to look for a job), the newly established game room and 99 cent store as well as part of the way home for dozens of low income kids heading down from pershing on their way to the last apartments on link valley aka death valley on the other side of the loop and you don’t exactly have a desirable lot location…
Painting the front monochrome white did not do that house any favors, especially when the front yard is bereft of landscaping.
The market for mucked up mods is mushy.
who cares – it’s a nice house regardless
Maybe because they plastered over the mid-century charm with a bunch of gray blandness? Someone that wants bland would rather buy one of those boxy houses. And someone who appreciates mid-century design sees this as yuck.
I love the interior design a lot.
This home is beautiful! I love the finishes, but they are my style. And at this price, I suspect it is priced to sell.
The before and after pictures…. Wow!!
My wife and I went by last weekend. Indeed it backs up to Stella Link and the strip center across the street. It was surprisingly quiet however. The front yard has a nice tree. Inside, the kitchen was odd. It was way too wide and did not feel comfortable. If you look in the pictures the distance between sink, stove and refrigerator is too much and the walkway in between in oddly large which resulted in a lot of wasted space. Also you can notice in the pictures something that stuck out right away for me… the quarter round in the kitchen was tacked in and unfinished. It looked like they have not completed work. Also cork floors are not for everyone, including us. I also felt that a house that price should have an enclosed garage space. If it is raining you will have quite a wet walk to get into the house. Overall it showed promise and had some nice spaces but I think they missed the mark on the redesign. (I would still want the kitchen redone.) Plus it is way too expensive for what you are getting compared to the rest of that neighborhood.
Painting a brick facade always requires an explanation.
@Yaya, nice try, an obvious shill is obvious.
they bought it for $240K and are asking nearly $700K? they couldn’t have spent more than $150K on the rehab, and a lot of the furniture they put in is cheap stuff made to looks edgy. i can’t see this being worth more than $500K.
I think they did a great job with the property. However, as I’ve seen done quite often, you can’t buy a dumpy place and make it nicer than the market. It seems that location doesn’t support that quality of house (or rather, that price of house). They over shot. If they could air lift the house somewhere nice, they’d make some $. But I don’t see a buyer paying close to $1m to buy a fixed up $250k house.
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We face that issue with our apartments. In some areas we can spend $5k+ per unit and we know we’ll get that back because there is a market for a nicer unit that’ll pay more. In other areas, no matter what we do to the place, the rent will be the rent. We could drop $5k on upgrades and maybe get $550 vs. $500. Where in other areas that upgraded would raise the rent from $700 to $900.
They may be dreaming on the price, but that is a fantastic renovation.
If anyone has ever slept in that bed in the loft (and that’s a big if), how many times did they hit their head and curse its existence?
I have a (probably) silly question…why, when a house is staged, do they put the fake gift bags with tissue paper in the closet? Are potential buyers not savy enough to know what a closet is for? And how will a couple of empty gift bags show those buyers how to use a closet? Inquring minds want to know.
because women are notoriously bad with spatial relations. figured they’d be more interested to see a shoe box than a gift bag though.
My thoughts from the fall still apply — WAY overpriced for the area. They are unlikely to move it at anywhere close to that price. If they were just naïve, I feel for them. If they’re just greedy, time to take the loss.
HCAD valuation history: http://hcad.org/records/HistoryValue.asp?currenttaxyear=2014&LastTaxYear=&acct=0871990000015
I still don’t get the logic/belief system of folks who expect to move a house that’s ridiculously inflated vs. surrounding properties. Why do you build/remodel a home there when you are unlikely to ever recoup your costs?
Case in point: http://search.har.com/engine/10713-Greenwillow-St-Houston-TX-77035_HAR65655467.htm – relisted for $50K less than last fall, but still grossly out of synch.
I know a lot of families love that neighborhood. One thing that they love about it is that they can move into the area for a reasonable price. This house looks great, and it is absolutely going to make a tidy profit. What it’s not going to make is near $700K. They didn’t overbuild, but they did overask.
Yikes! Why are all the real estate “experts” so concerned w this specific house? why am I even commenting – this is the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. Let’s talk about something positive for a change folks lol
well it appears the house is now pending so I guess all ‘the experts’ got this one wrong saying it would never sell at it’s list price.
Nice house, ok location, I would be interested at 1/3 the price.
I toured this a few weeks ago. Another strange thing is the bonus toilet in the closet. You go through the master bath, into the closet and then on the backside of the closet is a powder room.
Otherwise a well done renovation. Better than most.