{"id":2599,"date":"2023-06-13T19:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/a-surprise-inside-whats-going-on-with-this-130k-ohio-home\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T19:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T19:58:16","slug":"a-surprise-inside-whats-going-on-with-this-130k-ohio-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/13\/a-surprise-inside-whats-going-on-with-this-130k-ohio-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprise Inside: What\u2019s Going On With This $130K Ohio Home?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At first glance, you might overlook this three-bedroom, brick house in Akron, OH<\/a>, and never know what colorful interior (and past) lies behind the front door.<\/p>\n

But it shouldn\u2019t be too hard to catch the spirit of this 1,441-square-foot charmer\u2014whoever wrote the listing sure did!<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a few, creativity flows like an unending stream, painting the canvas of our world with strokes of brilliance that endure on walls and canvases, across wood and stone, upon floors and ceilings,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n

Indeed, this house abounds with imagination. From the ceilings and walls, awash in hand-painted murals, to the flower-adorned kitchen cabinets, the Cape Cod-style home<\/a> has been a showcase for artistic expression.<\/p>\n

The dwelling\u2019s surprising interior has made the home a social-media hit.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the heartwarming story of this house, which was built in 1942.<\/p>\n

\u2018One mural turned into 8 or 9\u2019<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe guy who used to live there, Don Nichols<\/strong>, was a really interesting guy,\u201d says listing agent Eric Cooper<\/strong>, of Coldwell Banker Schmidt Realty. \u201cHe was a Navy veteran who served in Vietnam. He was also a boxer, a semipro wrestler, and the three-time president of the boilermakers union.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently, he also appreciated art.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe commissioned a local artist named Ralph Herzog<\/strong>, who painted murals mostly on commercial buildings, to come to his house and paint one mural,\u201d Cooper explains. \u201cOver the years, they struck up a friendship, and one mural turned into eight or nine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Herzog and Nichols established a creative collaboration in which Nichols provided the canvas, and Herzog turned his creativity loose on it throughout the house.<\/p>\n

\u201cNestled within the humble confines of a brick-and-mortar Cape Cod dwelling, a man was bestowed a canvas to express the vivid tableau of his soul,\u201d the listing rhapsodizes.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Herzog died in 2020, and Nichols died in 2022. The murals remain as a legacy of their friendship\u2014at least for now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI went to high school with Don\u2019s daughter, and she was hoping to find someone that would make every effort to preserve the home,\u201d Cooper says.<\/p>\n

\u2018Several offers on the home\u2019<\/h2>\n

The nominally priced abode is already in contingent sale status, after just a week on the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have had several offers on the home already and initially made it a point to vet people, with the hopes they would keep the home and not paint over it,\u201d Cooper says. \u201cObviously, we can\u2019t guarantee that they won\u2019t, but we are hoping they will keep it that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Living area<\/p>\n

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He says the majority of prospective buyers were interested in the home because they knew the artwork was there.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people just wanted to have a look, but most came in because they appreciated it was there and stated they will be leaving it as is,\u201d Cooper reports. \u201cRalph used a style of painting called Fresco that involves painting on wet plaster. He used this technique in the dining room.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dining room<\/p>\n

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Even the sunroom has a storied history.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has these wooden floors that came from a West Virginian church close to where Don grew up,\u201d Cooper says. \u201cWhen they razed the church, he took them and added them to the sunroom. There is also quite a bit of stained glass in the home, as well as an antique weather vane.\u00a0It really has a lot of character for a small home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunroom<\/p>\n

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Realtor.com At first glance, you might overlook this three-bedroom, brick house in Akron, OH, and never know what colorful interior (and past) lies behind the front door. But it shouldn\u2019t be too hard to catch the spirit of this 1,441-square-foot charmer\u2014whoever wrote the listing sure did! \u201cFor a few, creativity flows like an unending stream,…Read More→<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}