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One thing to remember is that a house that suits you perfectly when you're younger may not work for you at all when you are older and can no longer drive and are finding ladders, stairs, and heavy physical work harder to manage.
This is sooo true! We're already discussing what we will need when we're old or if we're ever injured. A first floor master suite we have decided is a necessity. We don't have one here, but we will in our next house. Also the width of hallways is something to consider. The size of rooms as well. Small rooms are really tough. We're having a huge debate about whether we should go with a large Victorian or build a custom home....first world problems.
On a lighter note three of four bedrooms are painted, one more to go tomorrow. New dishwasher ordered and carpet will be installed early next week.
Super, Zarick. Hope you start to enjoy the home a little bit once you get these new things in.
My son and his wife just bought a split entry raised ranch. They are thrilled to pieces -- planning on opening up a kitchen wall & bringing the house into the 21st century with refinished wood floors and a contemporary gray color scheme. It will look fresh & modern, like a young person's home.
I am not a big fan of hardwoods. I have them in my current place and they are a pain in the butt to upkeep. And of course when you get lazy with four kids they look aweful a lot.
A word of advice for all you out there. I just finished pulling up carpet, scraping glue, and pulling staples. PAY someone to do it. 12 hours it took and I hurt everywhere. I still have to clean everything.
I am not a big fan of hardwoods. I have them in my current place and they are a pain in the butt to upkeep. And of course when you get lazy with four kids they look aweful a lot.
A word of advice for all you out there. I just finished pulling up carpet, scraping glue, and pulling staples. PAY someone to do it. 12 hours it took and I hurt everywhere. I still have to clean everything.
If anyone in your house has allergies, carpet is AWFUL on them....hardwoods are much better. They have been for both of us. My husband loves carpet. I love wood floors. He grew up with carpet and I grew up with hardwood floors from the 30's. When I was a teenager, I would wash my bedroom floor on my hands and knees. I LOOOOOVED that floor!
Crazy man for doing all of that work at once! No wonder you hurt, but in a few days you'll forget about it and be happy with progress. I've pulled out so much 25+year old carpeting in this house. Much of it had mold and mildew living in it....good times. Staples on stairs are fun.....if you've just escaped from the looney bin! we even found some nails in the carpeting....why??
I just finished the stairs last. I am pretty sure whoever did the stairs had a fetish for staples because each step had about 20. The pads in this house were in good condition, no mold or mildew except the stairs.
I just finished the stairs last. I am pretty sure whoever did the stairs had a fetish for staples because each step had about 20. The pads in this house were in good condition, no mold or mildew except the stairs.
Good times! We kept finding a staple here and there for a few days afterwards. We wondered how we missed any. We also wanted to beat to death whoever stapled the hell out of that carpet along with the flipping nails.
"A 5 minute walk thru? Maybe your first walk thru, but I've never spent only 5 minutes in any of the 3 houses I've owned! First one I bought, I spent an hour there and then went back a few days later to sign papers and walked around for about 30 minutes. The second house we built and toured a model.....took us about 2 hours. The house I'm sitting in right, I was here for an hour and a half."
I meant the "5 minutes" figuratively; not literally. Of course you'd make several visits and spend hours but, considering the weight of that decision, that's relatively little time. Can you spend a week discovering its quirks or even a weekend? No, although you can keep that car for a day and that shirt for a week...
So there seems to be an inverse relationship between the time spent trying and amount spent buying!
"A 5 minute walk thru? Maybe your first walk thru, but I've never spent only 5 minutes in any of the 3 houses I've owned! First one I bought, I spent an hour there and then went back a few days later to sign papers and walked around for about 30 minutes. The second house we built and toured a model.....took us about 2 hours. The house I'm sitting in right, I was here for an hour and a half."
I meant the "5 minutes" figuratively; not literally. Of course you'd make several visits and spend hours but, considering the weight of that decision, that's relatively little time. Can you spend a week discovering its quirks or even a weekend? No, although you can keep that car for a day and that shirt for a week...
So there seems to be an inverse relationship between the time spent trying and amount spent buying!
It is quite dumb if you think about it. In many houses we spent an hour several times. You still don't get to really eval everything.
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