WWTBAM Bored

Finally! We are wired. Or wireless. One or the other. Or both.

More than two weeks after the first service call, and we finally have all parts of the cable/phone/internet package up and running. I'll spare you the details, but just know that TW blows and their contracted installation peeps suck. I'm writing a letter. I never write letters.

We are moved, connected, about 80% unpacked, and I even got myself registered to vote here. (Had to insert something political, you know..but I'm not touching that Pro-Life thread with a 10 foot pole..) And now....the remodeling shall commence. We have some moderately ambitious plans. The entire house, from curb to backyard, will be updated. The kitchen remodel will be the biggest part, but it really needs it. We need a new roof as well, and discovered that the AC unit probably needs replacing too. Hopefully the housing market will have improved by the time we've finished turning it into a full-on creampuff. I look forward to the day when Ohio is a distant memory.

I grew up with parents who love to remodel and flip houses and whatnot, so none of this is new to me....but this is the first big project I've ever done myself. It's a little scary, considering everything we have planned! But we are ready for the challenge. Game on!

Game on!

I will give you some advice my s-i-l gave me and I rolled my eyes and discounted her as being a california whacko. She was so right in her advice I acknowldge it every chance I get.

Live in the house - let it speak to you and tell you what to do. What you choose today, may not be what is right for you or for your house. Don't be in a rush. Live in the house un-done for a bit.

peacock2121 wrote: Live in the house - let it speak to you and tell you what to do. What you choose today, may not be what is right for you or for your house. Don't be in a rush. Live in the house un-done for a bit.

I think this is good advice. I want to be in a rush for some stuff, but I realized I needed to slow down the other night while sitting on the floor amid a heap of paint chips and flooring samples. None of them were calling out to us just yet. This is NN's old house, and he is so used to seeing it as-is that it's hard for him to imagine it differently. I don't know the light yet.

I think we should start with the floors. The whole color of those rooms will change once the wood is down.

Good luck! Definitely one step at a time. If you're talking about removing carpet and doing hardwood, that may be your first step.

Then focus on one room at a time. The kitchen may be the next most important, although it's the most traumatic while it's being done and you're living there at the same time.

marrymeflyfree wrote:

peacock2121 wrote: Live in the house - let it speak to you and tell you what to do. What you choose today, may not be what is right for you or for your house. Don't be in a rush. Live in the house un-done for a bit.

I think this is good advice. I want to be in a rush for some stuff, but I realized I needed to slow down the other night while sitting on the floor amid a heap of paint chips and flooring samples. None of them were calling out to us just yet. This is NN's old house, and he is so used to seeing it as-is that it's hard for him to imagine it differently. I don't know the light yet.

I think we should start with the floors. The whole color of those rooms will change once the wood is down.

I'm glad to see that GW isn't the only one to do this. We intend to take up the carpeting in our stairway and upstairs hall/computer area along with the rug in BD's room, and put in hardwood flooring. Not to mention painting the stairway/hallway area. I figure it'll be spring 2009 at least before GW figures out what she wants. The painting will come first. No point dripping on a nice new floor.

kayrharris wrote:Good luck! Definitely one step at a time. If you're talking about removing carpet and doing hardwood, that may be your first step.

Then focus on one room at a time. The kitchen may be the next most important, although it's the most traumatic while it's being done and you're living there at the same time.

Hardwood floors are nice as long as you don't have someone living upstairs.

Bob Juch wrote: Hardwood floors are nice as long as you don't have someone living upstairs.

Maybe you should give your housemate some really nice cooshy non-frumpy house slippers for Christmas.