[LMB] OT: home decor rant

[sylvus tarn]

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Peter H. Granzeau wrote:

> 
> The one thing I have in mind for a fixer-upper:  Budget for the 
> fixes, but have at least half again as much cash available when you 
> do it, because you will find other things that need doing when you do 
> the work.  No one ever meets the budget.
> 
> 

Man oh man, ain't *that* the truth!  We moved into a supposedly
``finished'' house, figuring we'd only have to make a few changes to
convert the florida room to my studio.  That project proved to be
roughly what we thought it would be, once we decided that the original
construction, though it needed to be completely ripped down to the
foundation to really be made right, was simply not worth it so we merely
replaced the floor, removed the wallpaper (& painted to cover the
sheetrock scars from improperly applied same) and installed a hood.

But then, we decided to take these hideous fake bricks off the living
room alcove.  That project went not to the studs, but all the way to the
exterior sheathing (in January).  2, 3 or 5K of materials' later (we did
the work ourselves, and I've mercifully forgotten exactly how much we
spent, except to say on multiple occasions that really, we should invest
in Home Depot, on the theory that we'd get some of that money back) we
finished that project.

Since then, we've discovered an almost infinite number of time and money
sucking projects we could do on this house...and it's not that old,
*that* poorly maintained, or, originally, that poorly built.
Fixer-uppers are for folks who *enjoy* spending their weekends on home
improvement projects.


sylvus
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