Urko Añorga Recarte

Chris decided to rip out this fence around the back of the house last weekend so we can have this big sloping lawn.

Oh right… the interview.. We’ve already spoken about Scott’s thoughts on types of finishes that you should use on an income property and we’ve talked about how you might approach an income property differently in a small town versus the big city in my last post with him..The next thing I wanted to know about was just the basics.

Realistically, we don’t all have an extra $60 000 laying around to renovate when we want to put together an income property so I asked him what would be the one thing he would focus on if he could only complete one renovation.I thought for sure he would say the kitchen.They always say the kitchen, don’t they?.

Or maybe light fixtures.Scott’s been known to recommend using just a teeny bit of “bling” here and there..

But you know what he said?

Safety concerns!The decorative molding goes right over top!.

It looks super simple but of course we know that there’s a little bit of DIY magic hiding hiding under that basic molding!.At the bottom, a basic 2×2 piece of lumber allowed him to create a little “sill” for the chalk to sit on.

He finished it off with some more decorative molding.The end result looks pretty and classic, and it’s exactly what I had in mind!.