Fall Projects?

[Blueyes]

Paula, I did my kitchen cabinets like yours, only opposite. The cabinet doors are white with color behind. We've been in this house 3 years and I've redone the whole thing, lol! Mike and I have downsized twice. I don't understand why people buy huge houses after their kids leave home... I wanted smaller and easier. As long as I have a couple of extra bedrooms for my kids when they visit, I'm happy

Do they still sell plastic rakes with shag carpet, lol?!?!?!

[paula1961]

Oh Betsi, you're so funny! I'll have to ask the carpet installers about the rake They're here now laying the carpet, I think I'm really going to like it. I'll post a pic of it later.
I know what you mean about a big house. My hubby built this one when his daughters were small. Now they are in their 30's and have their own homes, and we have a 3000 sq ft house I feel like you do... enough room for the two of us and couple of bedrooms for the kids when they visit. I would love to have a one story house. Hopefully this one will sell and if it doesn't, I'm doing everything in the colors that I like.

[Janet]

LOL...I'm the opposite when it comes to size. I would like a larger house. I grew up in a two bedroom home with 6 people. Of course Mom and Dad had their room, but us 4 kids shared the other. It was a very small room, maybe 10 X 10. Everything was crowded in there and I grew up really not liking holidays. Mom insisted everyone come to our house (and they did) for the holidays and it was so crowded and most were miserable but didn't want to upset Mom.

So...I wanted bigger...and I still do, even though it's a nice size 3 bedroom home. Trouble is....I keep getting stuff. I want to get rid of so much stuff, but just don't know if I'll regret getting rid of it and end up buying it again.

If I could just win enough money to fix it the way I want it I'd be satisfied...at least with the house.

[Blueyes]

Janet, I grew up in a small house with 6 people, too. My dad worked at night so I shared a bed with my mom and the boys shared the other one.

Mike and I built a big house a couple of years after we got married, and lived in it for 24 years. I had to get rid of SO much stuff to fit in to our next house! Now I get rid of things as it accumulates so I don't have clutter...not that clutter bothers me...I just need to keep my life as simple as possible

[paula1961]

Ok girls.. here's a pic of the new carpet. After the installers left, I called in the inspectors to make sure it was installed properly
Lucy looks like she is peeing but I promise she's not.

[gja1000]

Hi Paula! I really like the carpet!!! And the inspectors look like they are doing a great job!

[gja1000]

I grew up in a tiny 2 bedroom house with five people - only I was the step child........

My step sister moved out shortly after I moved in (at age 5) and my step brother had the second bedroom, so I slept on a rollaway bed that we kept in the hall during the day and I had to roll out every night. There was a tiny tiny closet in the hall with 2 drawers where I kept my stuff. When I was 13 my s-brother went off to college and I got the bedroom, but had to vacate every time he came home!

Everyone I knew lived in a similar house, so I really didn't know much else existed.

When I got married (the first time) we built a 3 bedroom house, about 1500 sq ft, I think. It was nice, but got sold in the divorce.

Then Gary and I got married and moved to Austin. I was in school so we bought a little 1200 sq ft 3 bedroom house. We have just stayed in it, but 8 years ago, Gary built on 800 sq ft more, a den, an office, and a BIG closet. We'll probably never sell this house, unless the neighborhood just gets really bad. Right now it is a funky little multiethnic neighborhood and we have known some of our neighbors for 24 years, and other neighbors change every six months!

I don't have too many projects I'd like to do, cuz I'm not much into my house - but I would like to paint the kitchen cabinets. They are the cheap original ones in the house that was built 28 years ago. My daughter says I need to get rid of my butcher block formica counter tops, but I still love them. They don't show a THING!

Betsi, you should post a picture of your cabinets since they are opposite of Paula's - I really need to do something, but not sure what to do. I like Paula's and I'd like to see yours.

We will need to change out the tub in our bathroom sometime, as it is fiberglass and has some chips in it. I'd like to do some more rock work in the front yard - get rid of more grass = less watering. I'll do that sometime, not sure when.