The extraordinary $350,000 two-bedroom, one-bathroom home in Hazel Park, MI, was built in 1937 by its original owner, who set the ends of 20,000 blue and green bottles into the concrete walls.
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He wanted it to look like the home was covered in sparkling jewels.
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The home was owned by the same family, the Klines, for nearly 70 years. However, when the matriarch passed away, her relatives decided to sell the property to someone who would take great care in restoring it.
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While exploring their options, the grandson did a Google search for cash homebuyers in the area and found the website HouseFullOfCash.com, run by local home-flipping and development expert Carl Schiller.
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When Schiller started work on the home in 2021, “it was rough,” to say the least.
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As Schiller dug through the rubble, he also dug into the home’s history, which began with Omar Reese, who began building it in 1935.
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He decided to construct his home out of concrete blocks because timber workers were on strike, making it difficult to get building materials.
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Reese poured his own concrete blocks and, inspired by a child’s kaleidoscope, decided to cleave bottle butts and set them into the wet cement blocks to add bright color.
