{"id":30135,"date":"2015-01-15T10:39:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T18:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=30135"},"modified":"2015-01-15T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T18:40:36","slug":"turn-1475-sqft-lot-half-million-dollar-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/15\/turn-1475-sqft-lot-half-million-dollar-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Turn a 1,475 sqft Lot Into a Half-Million-Dollar Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Seattle\/comments\/2sfdjb\/extreme_makeover\/\" title=\"Reddit Seattle: Extreme Makeover\">spotted by a user over on Reddit&#8217;s \/r\/Seattle<\/a>. The images below are of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@47.553425,-122.28157,3a,90y,199.33h,85.7t\/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1spWEztD6ztoLRMj11D1ysUw!2e0\">3941 South Brandon Street on Google Street View<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>2008: Empty 1,475 square foot lot.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2008.jpg\" alt=\"2008: 3941 S. Brandon St., Seattle, WA 98118\" width=\"1114\" height=\"981\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30136\" title=\"2008: 3941 S. Brandon St., Seattle, WA 98118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2008.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2008-250x220.jpg 250w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2008-350x308.jpg 350w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2008-700x616.jpg 700w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2008-556x490.jpg 556w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2008-278x245.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1114px) 100vw, 1114px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>2011: Foundation<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2011.jpg\" alt=\"2011: 3941 S. Brandon St., Seattle, WA 98118\" width=\"1114\" height=\"981\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30137\" title=\"2011: 3941 S. Brandon St., Seattle, WA 98118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2011.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2011-250x220.jpg 250w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2011-350x308.jpg 350w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2011-700x616.jpg 700w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2011-556x490.jpg 556w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2011-278x245.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1114px) 100vw, 1114px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>2014: 1,687 sqft, 3-bed, 2.5-bath modern home<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2014.jpg\" alt=\"2014: 3941 S. Brandon St., Seattle, WA 98118\" width=\"1114\" height=\"981\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30138\" title=\"2014: 3941 S. Brandon St., Seattle, WA 98118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2014.jpg 1114w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2014-250x220.jpg 250w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2014-350x308.jpg 350w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2014-700x616.jpg 700w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2014-556x490.jpg 556w, https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/3941-S-Brandon-St_2014-278x245.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1114px) 100vw, 1114px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The resulting home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/WA\/Seattle\/3941-S-Brandon-St-98118\/unit-B\/home\/55242491\" title=\"3941 S. Brandon St., Seattle, WA 98118\">sold last June for just under half a million dollars<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the listing description:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From this cool modern stand alone home you can walk to all the restaurants, shops &#038; bakery in the heart of Columbia City. Enjoy city views from the floor to ceiling windows and also from the large deck off the m. bedroom. The spacious 2 car garage is wired for your EV vehicle, but you can also enjoy a short walk to the bus line or the Light Rail. Lake Washington is just a few minutes to the east. The kitchen features a large island and Pental quartz countertops. Welcome to your new home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smart feature to wire the garage for EVs, even though they redundantly advertised it as &#8220;wired for your electric vehicle vehicle.&#8221; Can&#8217;t say I&#8217;d ever spend half a million dollars on a skinny house wedged into such a tiny lot, but it&#8217;s probably better than sprawl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was spotted by a user over on Reddit&#8217;s \/r\/Seattle. The images below are of 3941 South Brandon Street on Google Street View. 2008: Empty 1,475 square foot lot. 2011: Foundation 2014: 1,687 sqft, 3-bed, 2.5-bath modern home The resulting home sold last June for just under half a million dollars. Here&#8217;s the listing description:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"On the blog: How-To: Turn a 1,475 sqft Lot Into a Half-Million-Dollar Home http:\/\/wp.me\/pe2Bv-7Q3","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[1082,1081,699,1080],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-30135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-columbia-city","tag-density","tag-new-construction","tag-reddit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How-To: Turn a 1,475 sqft Lot Into a Half-Million-Dollar Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/15\/turn-1475-sqft-lot-half-million-dollar-home\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"How-To: Turn a 1,475 sqft Lot Into a Half-Million-Dollar Home\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"This was spotted by a user over on Reddit&#8217;s \/r\/Seattle. 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