The creator narrates his journey of renovating a dilapidated, abandoned house for his growing family. He showcases the initial horrific conditions, the major demolition and structural changes, the struggles with overwhelming issues like nicotine-stained walls, and the race against time before his baby is born, ending on a cliffhanger about a hidden secret.
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Follow my crazy DIY journey @realiferenovation
A lot of people told me not to buy this abandoned house and for a long time they were right!
But slowly I’m earning my family’s dream home the hard way 🥹
I still have the hidden room to renovate & TWO unfinished basements to DIY by myself so follow me to see how it turns out!
Transcript
Hey, I'm Alex, and I bought an abandoned house that the internet told me would be the worst decision of my life. But it's my only chance to give my family their dream home, so I bought it anyways, and let's let you decide if it was worth it or not. I mean, nothing says home quite like discovering a bomb filled with a liquid, dead bats on your floor, rank pipes. And to top it off, there's mold everywhere you look, and it smells like forty years of stale cigarettes. Oh, and did I mention my wife Kylie was six months pregnant? The first thing we tackled was gutting this gross kitchen from the seventies. And once it was demoed, Kylie hated how closed off it still was. So I spent more than I did on our own wedding to tear this massive wall down, which is crazy. But let me know if you think it was worth it. I painted the entire house in one night because the smell of cigarettes was so strong that I just had to find a way to get rid of it, and it didn't work. Baked in nicotine was starting to bleed through the paint, and I was prepared to burn the house down. But now the problem is I've never renovated an entire house before, and I'm desperately running out of time. So my friends traveled from across the country to sleep here in a tent and help me lay this hardwood floor. It felt like the boost I desperately needed, but the baby could come any day at this point and this house was driving us into bankruptcy. But then, everything changed when I just