MANSFIELD — The brick house at 580 Woodhill Road in Mansfield is ready for its debut with Klupp Investments.
After four months of extensive renovations including refinished hardwood floors, new furnaces and air conditioners, and replacing 69 windows, the Klupp family is ready to show off their work in an open house from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday. According to DJ Klupp, four generations of his family worked on the house at some point throughout the renovation process.
“We want to show it off and see what people think,” DJ Klupp said. “It gives us a lot of satisfaction because we’ve put a lot of hard work into this. We want anyone and everyone to come through the property.”
For three years now, parents Don and Amy and brothers DJ and Nic have been flipping houses into homes through their business Klupp Investments. The goal is to buy, revive, sell and rent houses after bringing them back to their former glory, from minor repairs to complete renovations.
The 580 Woodhill Road home is the 14th house the Klupps have flipped, and the 12th house in the Richland County area. It was first built in 1935.
In fact, the Klupps were paid a visit from one of the home’s former residents, who grew up in the Woodhill house in the 1940s.
“Throughout the years she always reminisces and drives by, and the place was just run down from people not taking care of it,” said Don Klupp. “When she did a walk-through two weeks ago, she was ecstatic on how everything looked. She was telling us stories about stuff and remembering things from years ago.”
Keeping the character of the house was important to the Klupps, from the original solid oak doors to details in the bathroom like original tile and built-ins. The room that went through the biggest change was the kitchen, with all-new cabinets, counters, backsplash and tile flooring.
“That’s the biggest thing when we bought this house, you’ve got such a large expense to redo everything because nothing is level; this house was built in the 30s so it’s a lot of work to do it when you do it all at once,” DJ Klupp said. “They can buy something modern and updated, but not modern and updated. It’s character, but it’s still new.”
“In this neighborhood that’s what people are looking for,” added Nic Klupp. “They know it’s an older neighborhood, all the houses are old, and that’s what they like to see.”
Because of the extensive renovations, costs ended up far exceeding expectations for the house. Labor requirements were also more extensive than originally thought. But DJ Klupp noted the investment was worth it to see the house done right.
The Klupps also have quite a bit of emotional investment into the house as well.
“Mom keeps saying she’s going to sell her house and buy this one,” DJ Klupp said with a laugh.
“I have mixed feelings,” said Amy Klupp. “I’m very attached to this house, more than any of the others. I’m sad, anxious to sell it and want to make sure someone good buys it who’s going to take care of it and keep renovating.”
