Steph! That's exciting! Also, my parents didn't have a closet in their bedroom when I was growing up, and they just had racks in the wall, which worked fine.
Also, you can tell it's not gonna have a happy ending when the main guy's all bumpy.
Tara ,'First Date'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 03, 2007 4:27:35 pm PDT #8295 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sue - Sep 03, 2007 4:30:00 pm PDT #8296 of 10001
hip deep in pie
I almost think when you refinish floors, it is best to leave town if at all possible.
Except if you hire people who seem to need to be called daily to see if they'r eoging to friggin show up. Which is the reason why I'm glad I didn't get them to do the main floor.
sarameg - Sep 03, 2007 4:32:34 pm PDT #8297 of 10001
My friend found nice wardrobes (some from IKEA, some antique) for use in her closetless apts. But she was renting, so it was a temp solution. But if you've got to put something off for a bit, that's doable.
(whee, Steph!)
Scrappy - Sep 03, 2007 4:36:20 pm PDT #8298 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We have spent a LOT of money on the new house. Had the floors in the public rooms sanded and refinished ($1,700), and popcorn scraped off the all the ceilings, skim coat to smooth them out and everything painted ($3,000), house, garage and fence primed and painted, rotted patio roof torn out and removed, and bad adjoining roof repaired ($4,200). Next we will have an electrician come which will probably be another thou, and have the tub refinished for about $500. We did budget for this, though, and saved on lots of other things--we are keeping the same kitchen and bathroom cabinets and most fixtures. (we had to buy a stove, but we got it at the huge labor day sale at Sears). We tore out the old kitchen floor, and bought industrial tile which is only $1 a sq. foot and are putting it in ourselves. It also took the house from severely undervalued to worth more than we paid for it, even including the repairs.
Steph L. - Sep 03, 2007 4:42:14 pm PDT #8299 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph! That's exciting!
Heh. Also a little scary. But mostly exciting.
Also, my parents didn't have a closet in their bedroom when I was growing up, and they just had racks in the wall, which worked fine.
Yeah, there are a lot of storage options, which I'm actually nerdily excited about
My friend found nice wardrobes (some from IKEA, some antique) for use in her closetless apts. But she was renting, so it was a temp solution. But if you've got to put something off for a bit, that's doable.
IKEA and even Target have some nifty not-killer-expensive movable wardrobe things (not armoires, but more like canvas on a frame with a rod for hanging off-season stuff in the attic).
(whee, Steph!)
We're both thrilled....and then occasionally terrified. Because moving in together is, like, all grownup and shit!
sarameg - Sep 03, 2007 4:43:18 pm PDT #8300 of 10001
On one hand, your plan is one I'd like, Robin (start with something untouched, do the stuff important to you yourself, not subject to someone else's designs) on the other....aaaaaack!
But I also know me. When I buy, if it isn't ideal, but it's new? I won't change it, just hate it. So better I start with something that I get to change. Just without, you know...having to redo all the plumbing or something.
DavidS - Sep 03, 2007 4:44:06 pm PDT #8301 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
We're both thrilled....and then occasionally terrified. Because moving in together is, like, all grownup and shit!
Yay! I'm very excited for you both. That is grand good news.
Scrappy - Sep 03, 2007 4:48:41 pm PDT #8302 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Hooray for Teppy and the Boy for deciding to live in geeky sin--the best kind!
Liese S. - Sep 03, 2007 5:06:18 pm PDT #8303 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
How much of that stuff will I not have immediately, though, because I'm doing a new build? I mean, I'm paying for paint (and painting myself, you betcha), but it's coming out of the construction loan. beth's savings account is a good idea. We can do that, and then maybe by the time the new things start breaking down, we'll have some money to work with.
It's insane that we're building, first. We've never owned anything bigger than our car, and the car we just got rid of is the only car I've ever owned myself. We figured we'd be vagabonds always, so it's all so weird. Property taxes, homeowner's association fees (which in our case turn out to be lake fees, yay.) it's all new to us.
And like, how often will I need to have my septic serviced? Stuff like that. At least by now I know what part of the toilet to jiggle, because we've had largely absentee landlords for the past several years. But it sure is different to be responsible for it altogether.
sarameg - Sep 03, 2007 5:19:31 pm PDT #8304 of 10001
Lises, I'm sure it depends on your septic size and the drainage of the soil, but my parents have had it done maybe 3 times in 15+ years. Unfortunately, they have a desert willow in the yard that's become invested in the tank, and killing those things is a bitch. So also think of it when you do plantings.