oldcarfan Posted November 3, 2019 Posted November 3, 2019 I am going to be seriously unable to build anything much for the next few months. I will be out of town most weekends. Now for the good news: We bought an old house about 2 hours north of Austin in a place called Brownwood and are rehabbing it for a planned summer move-in. Second part of the good news is that the old house comes with a new shop which means I have a 14x 25 area for 1:1 car builds and a 12x12 area for model building. In addition I will have an overhead storage are for models and stuff. So happy. We've started gutting the house and I'm collecting ideas for the shop.
High octane Posted November 3, 2019 Posted November 3, 2019 Sounds good, and good luck with your project Gary.
tbill Posted November 3, 2019 Posted November 3, 2019 Congrats, that’s awesome! Best of luck on a quick house re-hab, then you can focus on the important part, the model room and garage ?
stavanzer Posted November 3, 2019 Posted November 3, 2019 What a cozy little house! The shop looks bigger than the house. Sounds like a great place to have and a Killer Project. Now, go rent a copy of the "Money Pit" with Tom Hanks, and watch it once. Then have fun with the rehab.
Tom Geiger Posted November 3, 2019 Posted November 3, 2019 Whoa! You stepped in it now! ? I've done the whole house renovation twice so far! A lot of fun, but also a lot of work! Good luck!
cobraman Posted November 3, 2019 Posted November 3, 2019 Money Pit was/is a funny movie. It is a remake of an older movie called Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. That one is also funny.
OldTrucker Posted November 4, 2019 Posted November 4, 2019 Cute little house and an awesome garage!!!LOL My kind of place!!! (if I could afford it now) That is what we did for years, buy an old house that needed work and rehab it while we were living there. Then I would find another and we would sell and move to it and do it all over again! Worked great until I busted my back had back surgery and couldn't work any more. We lost everything.
10mm Nut Posted November 4, 2019 Posted November 4, 2019 I lived in Brownwood and have a ton of relatives there still. The town is picking up in the last few years.
Jantrix Posted November 4, 2019 Posted November 4, 2019 Wow that is quite a project. Lets hope some AC is in the plans. I'd be excited with that shop too. Very nice.
espo Posted November 6, 2019 Posted November 6, 2019 I like the look of the old stone building. That should go a long way to help with the insulation of the structure. Very nice "Man Cave" next door.
Lizard Racing Posted November 8, 2019 Posted November 8, 2019 Looks like you will have a slice of Paradise when you're done.
oldcarfan Posted November 16, 2019 Author Posted November 16, 2019 On 11/3/2019 at 4:53 PM, alexis said: What a cozy little house! The shop looks bigger than the house. Sounds like a great place to have and a Killer Project. Now, go rent a copy of the "Money Pit" with Tom Hanks, and watch it once. Then have fun with the rehab. We moved to Austin years ago for the schools and our oldest graduated last year and our youngest graduates in May so we started to look for something affordable. The house is 740 sq. ft. and the shop is 648 sq. ft. so it's not far off! We were planning to have to gut the house so we only bid $19k for the property. The appraiser said the shop alone was worth that. We've been driving up on the weekends and have realized it needs a lot less work than it first seemed. We've gutted the kitchen and bath, biut the living room and bedroom are only going to need fairly minor work. So happy!
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