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Post by librarylady on Dec 2, 2016 2:16:39 GMT
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Post by jenjie on Dec 2, 2016 2:48:57 GMT
LOL that was a fun read.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 3:49:03 GMT
Ha!
This is why I live in a 1970's house that isn't updated. My silly hubby LIKES 1970's style & I don't have the energy to argue. It's clean, so I go with it.
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Post by Shel on Dec 2, 2016 4:11:59 GMT
I was in tears laughing as I read this to my husband who watched quite a bit of Fixer Upper with me this summer.
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Post by Basket1lady on Dec 2, 2016 4:18:23 GMT
Our biggest argument to date, 18 months into our marriage and 25 years ago, was wallpaper, too!
I love it! DH and I love to watch those shows on the weekends.
We've been This Old House fans for 20 some years, but these houses seem so much more do-able. Buy a house for $35,000 and fix it up? We could pay cash for it! Even if we did $200,000 in reno, it would still be so cheap! Yes, we are fools.
Evidently the great wainscoting wallpaper episode the summer of 1992 has faded just enough from our memory to make this dream seem possible. (And the great irony there is that the base closed down and our house was turned over to the city for low income housing, but it didn't meet code. So it sat empty unless the homeless population moved in. And then it was used for urban assault training in the early 2000s. I hope they all enjoyed my country blue wallpaper with (tasteful) little mauve ducks dotted across the field. You are welcome, homeless folks!)
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 2, 2016 4:27:46 GMT
Yet another life lesson I learned at the expense of my siblings! One of my crazier family members decided to tear up the ENTIRE HOUSE--AT ONCE. Yeah, they're not married anymore. DH and I have done our share of remodeling projects, but thankfully we never tore up more than once area at a time. You can live without a kitchen for a while, or a bathroom or bedroom. You can live with your living room furniture piled in a heap for a few weeks. But it is dang near impossible to live without a kitchen AND a bathroom AND a bedroom AND a living room simultaneously. Say no. Just NO.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 5:24:54 GMT
This made me laugh!
I especially loved the part about "open concept." I HATE open concept. Give me walls and ROOMS!
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Post by georgiapea on Dec 2, 2016 5:46:09 GMT
I can never get away from Chip and Joanna fast enough. Or the Property Bros either. All that smashing! However, I like wallpaper and plan to wallpaper the living room in our Sopchoppy house. Doing so is not going to ruin our marriage. DH probable will even help.
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Post by papersilly on Dec 2, 2016 6:21:19 GMT
Funny article! I like every Chip and Jojo.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Dec 2, 2016 12:07:35 GMT
I read parts of it to my husband. We can identify with some of it. In our case, we both brought previous experience with fixer-upping into this marriage coupled with wicked cases of OCD about HOW to do projects like that. We've learned to trust that the other one actually does know what they are doing and will do a good job without needing "supervision." Haha!
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Post by destined2bmom on Dec 2, 2016 12:28:22 GMT
That was really funny! I love watching those shows; but I know anything major done in our home will need a general contractor. As I watch, my DH is constantly saying to me "Don't get any ideas; it's not happening".  |
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Post by peasapie on Dec 2, 2016 13:30:15 GMT
So true! My husband works on one small project with me and he is overwhelmed. I'm always thinking he's gonna blow a gasket before it's over. His obituary will say, "His wife asked him to replace a faucet,"
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Post by janeinbama on Dec 2, 2016 14:28:45 GMT
Ours was a thermostat! In the 80's we remodeled kitchen, took out knotty paneling, wall paper in hallway and new carpet in hall and bedrooms. My DH is a commercial plumber by trade, so I was given the opportunity to pick out all items PRIOR to beginning project, but no changes once work had commenced. According to DH this is the nightmare of contractors. All I asked was our A/C guy who was a dear friend to move the thermostat about 3 ft. You would have thought I was asking for a second floor!!!
Same project- I wanted a steel gray carpet,I brought home samples and picked one. Came home after installation to BLUE carpet. We have used a decorator on all projects since then.
When we were selling and moving 13 years ago this month eek, we here having trouble finding what we wanted and considered building. I just don't know if our marriage could have withstood it.
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Post by loco coco on Dec 2, 2016 14:34:25 GMT
LOL thats hilarious!! we watched the new Fixer Upper last night (omg that house was gorgeous) and my husband literally said "I can do that"  |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Dec 2, 2016 14:44:48 GMT
LOL, the thing is, my DH probably COULD do it. The problem isn't the level of ability it's the level of commitment so every project takes FOR.EVER. At our old house he got tired of looking at all my art crap all over so he volunteered to finish off the 1/2 story attic space that was already partially "finished" (that is, if you call cardboard walls covered with wallpaper in the 1930's finished). Yay! Except OMG, the project took FOUR YEARS. Not exaggerating either. He gutted the downstairs office and upstairs attic down to the studs. It was nice once it was finally done but holy crap that took a long time!  |
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Post by wallyagain on Dec 2, 2016 14:51:27 GMT
In our previous house, we remodelled every room. We gutted the kitchen to the outside walls, moved appliances, the whole nine yards. We put in hardwood floor in the living room, dining room, halleay. And so much more. We did everything ourselves, it's our happy place.
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