For this Good Bones project, Mina and Karen took on a project of a slightly different sort. Rather than purchasing a house to renovate and flip, they agreed to take over a partially completed renovation for a client who had already purchased the home.

Half of the home's interior — one of the duplex units — had already been renovated, but the remainder was incomplete. The exterior mainly needed some general freshening up and new landscaping to deal with overgrown shrubs and ivy.

The home's owner wanted to retain the home's purple exterior. Mina and Karen's renovation retained the purple palette, but the house got a fresh coat along with white trim and vibrant, darker purple to accent the brick surround.

The home's worn siding and old windows were replaced. New wood siding was used — in the style in keeping with would have been used when the house was built in 1910 — in order to conform with local restrictions for improvements to homes in the historic district.