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Remodeling notes from Middle Tennessee houses
Written by Michael Blair, owner of Nashville's Remodeling, from the trade’s own practice.
October 19, 2026
Selling a House With Unpermitted Work in Nashville
A finished basement or an enclosed porch with no permit behind it tends to surface when the house is listed. Here is what the state form asks, what a lender’s appraiser does with it, and how to find out what was actually done.
Read itOctober 12, 2026
Finishing a Basement: Egress, Ceilings and Radon
Before a basement in Middle Tennessee becomes a bedroom or a family room, three things decide whether it can: an escape opening the code accepts, enough headroom, and a radon number taken before the slab disappears under flooring.
Read itOctober 8, 2026
Adding a Primary Suite to a Nashville House
A primary suite can go out the back, up a story, over the garage or into rooms you already have. Each one changes the house differently, and the code and the lot set limits on all four.
Read itSeptember 28, 2026
Starting a Remodel in the Fall, Into Winter
A project started in October runs into the first freeze, wet winter weeks and the holidays. Some of the work cares about the temperature and most of it does not.
Read itSeptember 21, 2026
Converting a Garage Into Living Space in Nashville
The garage already has a roof, a floor and walls, which makes the conversion look easy. What it usually lacks is a floor at the right height, insulation, or a permit.
Read itSeptember 14, 2026
Adding a Bathroom Where There Is No Plumbing
Supply water goes anywhere. The drain has to run downhill to the stack, and that one fact decides where a bathroom can go and what it costs to put it there.
Read itSeptember 7, 2026
Lead Paint and Asbestos in Older Nashville Homes
Intact and left alone, neither is usually a problem. Renovation is the work that turns both of them into dust.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Taking Out a Wall That Might Be Structural
Many open-plan renovations run into a wall that is carrying something, and that makes it an engineering job before it is a demolition one.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
The Order a Renovation Has to Happen In
A lot of renovation rework comes down to sequence: something built before the thing it depended on.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Adding On or Reworking What You Have
Plenty of people who ask for more space really want better-arranged space, and that is usually a smaller project than a new wing.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Living in the House During a Renovation
Staying in the house is normal for most projects and genuinely difficult for a few of them.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
Which Renovations Return Their Cost
In the latest national estimates, the projects that recover the most are the least glamorous ones.
Read itSeptember 1, 2026
What to Expect Renovating a Pre-War House
Old houses were built to different rules, and very little in them is standard-sized or square.
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