At that time, we were very naive & ambitious and wanted to take on a fixer-upper. Because we had no money, we had to buy a house that could use some work, but didn't require a major overhaul & repairs that we could not afford to make. And thus we ended up with our house, which I now lovingly (sort of) call our "Practice House."
This house has been a major pain in our butts!! But we are grateful because if we had had more money at the time, we probably would have purchased something that needed a whole lot more work & thus would most likely cost a whole lot more in repairs than we EVER dreamed. :)
So now, the remodeling streak in us has been put in check & if ever we DO decide to tackle another fixer-upper, we'll have a MUCH better idea of what's in store for us!!
You see, the trouble with doing work on an older house is that NOTHING ever goes as you planned.
For example. Our current project is the kitchen. . .that we started gutting not quite 3 years ago. . .. I'm in the process of refinishing the cabinets. (YUCK!) This required replacing one that we tried to make work from the previous existing floor to ceiling unit, by cutting it off and turning it into just a wall unit. Unfortunately, it didn't work so well. So off to Lowe's we went to pick up a 2 new cabinets to replace it as we have had to do one other time.
So we're sailing along the cabinets are going up great and then we put up the last one.
It sticks out more than a half inch more than the others!!!
Good Grief!
After much problem solving (and a few choice words) we realize that one of the studs behind the cabinet is bowing and pushing the wall out and thus the cabinet!!!!
Nate pulls out the hammer and we end up with this:
Not how I would have solved the problem maybe, but it did prove to be effective. :)
So, crisis averted, cabinets hung, we're good to go.
So I start sanding down the new doors.
UH-OH!!!
Lowe's has changed doors on us!!!!!
Now, instead of just a rounded outer edge, it's a routered outer edge!!!!!
We just can't win, can we????
***** I should mention that currently, while all this crazy kitchen stuff is going on, we've also had our garbage disposal go out, the toilet isn't working properly, and our heater died. It is 55 degrees in here right now! I've got on 3 layers, gloves, and am curled up under blankets on my couch watching the olympics. Thank God for portable heaters in the bedrooms!!!! (the part to fix it should be here in a day or two.) *****
xoxo—Lori
(I really won't be sad when we finally move.)
