Last seen on the blog in November as a trashed
and thrashed fixer upper is this now-renovated 1960 Palmer & Krisel
Tucson Flair Home that’s been flipped and flopped. With four bedrooms and two
bathrooms in 1,611 square feet sited on a 8,700 square-foot lot, the asking
price on this home is $175,000.
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Front of home |
Selling above ask at $102,500 in January of this year, the
current owner has admittedly done a lot with a small budget. They’ve cleaned
the property, painted inside and out, replaced trashed baths and given the home
new windows and a kitchen. Of course there are flipper hallmarks everywhere –
boob lights, vinyl windows, a weird corral carved out of a kitchen doorway and
bizarre placement of the master bedroom door.
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Front of home - gravel matches paint colors |
Out front, new dark red gravel has been added to the front
yard, replacing the lighter salt & pepper gravel that in place. A lighter
pink gravel serves as the driveway, and the original landscape was cleaned up.
The home has been painted the same color as the driveway and yard gravel, light
pink and red.
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Living room |
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Living room, master bedroom entry and entry hall |
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Living room and view to kitchen |
Inside, the rear facing living room has been floored in wood
laminate, and new windows and sliders look out to the unfinished yet cleared
and cleaned backyard. The entrance to the master bedroom has been relocated to
the south living room wall, making couch and television placement in the room a
challenge.
And where one door was added, interestingly, another was
taken away. The kitchen to living room ingress
and egress has been removed and raised to a half-height wall, creating a
strange portal opening exposing more of the kitchen – and the side of the
to-be-installed-fridge - than before to the living area. Sometimes in an effort
to open spaces up, consideration to detail is overlooked resulting in new
problems being created.
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Kitchen |
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Kitchen |
The kitchen is now a small corral, accessed only from the
family/dining room area now. Granite counters sit over shaker cabinetry, and
the hanging cabinetry has been removed reducing the amount of storage space available.
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Dining/family room |
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Dining/family room |
The dining/family room still maintains its original
clerestory windows, and serves as the central hallway accessing the three
secondary bedrooms as well as the laundry area, now concealed behind a set a
bi-fold doors. The former jack and jill bath between the two original secondary
bedrooms has been reconfigured, with the doors to the bedrooms being removed
and a new doorway now faces the dining area, an unfortunate consideration for
dining guests.
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Added fourth bedroom at rear of home |
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Secondary bedroom |
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Secondary bedroom |
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Guest bath |
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Master bedroom |
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Weird master bath entry through closet - this was a flipper add-on |
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Master bath |
The secondary bedrooms all feature boob lights and brown
carpeting, both of which are improvements over previous condition. The master
bedroom still features its original clerestory windows, and the configuration
has been altered, with the entrance placed at the living room and the former
entry converted to a closet. This new configuration also now means that the
master bathroom is now accessed through the closet, which isn’t really an improvement
to the floor plan.
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Back of home and backyard |
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Backyard |
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Wishing well - I wish the mid-mod gets put back into this home |
The backyard has been cleared and cleaned, but otherwise is
a blank slate, because the flipper handbook tells readers not to landscape a
backyard as a buyer’s mind is typically made up by the time they see the house.
The improvements made to this property don’t acknowledge the
history or architects behind the property, but they definitely made the
property livable once again. Hopefully the new owners will choose to return the
home back to its modernist roots.
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