House Projects

I’ve rebuilt and flipped four complete houses and worked on countless others, but a few projects really stand out. Fortunately, I was able to capture some of them in photos.

Serenity Basement Before

Unfinished Basement

Serenity Basement Before

It was a raw storage and dumping ground. But it had potential.

Serenity Basement Afterwards had an infrared sauna, hidden rooms and stairs all kid sized with art area, slides, ball pit and so on. The doorbell to the door going up the stairs was wired to an Olaf doll from the movie Frozen which I rigged to move with parts of a microwave and coat hangers. When you press the doorbell it would ding and Olaf would open the upstairs shutters and says some things before closing the shutters again.

Serenity Library

We used a LOT of cherry slabs to make the shelving. The pile of sawdust in the garage was 4 feet high and the footprint of a car!

Luther Bathroom

Two more since this one, and I am not doing any more bathroom remodels for a while, please stop asking.

Wine Wall

This nook was just the wrong size for everything else.

Luther Sauna

8 person, 6kW cedar sauna from scratch. Ok, I bought the cedar planks, but everything else.

The trick to doing this well is to measure obsessively.

I made the door with some plate glass from a table, and clear ash from a neighbors tree.

Piano Stairs

Oak stair caps, on sale. I just like how this project turned out. Since then used on three other stair projects.

Luther Basement Chill Zone

The basement is a gorgeous, pictures don't do it justice. It was another raw basement that is now a showpiece. My dad did the walnut slab table from scratch, I fixed his welding.

Luther Fireplace

We moved the walls in to open the space, converted the fireplace to gas, and stone wrapped the entire chimney.

Luther Fireplace Grand Side

Each brick had to be custom sized, so each brick you see above 5 feet high is at least three times up and down a ladder. I got so bored doing it that I started writing words in Morse code using the bricks - and even put a couple Tetris inspired bricks in there.

Concrete, lots of concrete

Building a runoff channel into the pond