Saturday, June 09, 2012
Life is not like HGTV
I need Candace Olson. When someone wants a new bathroom--they say "I want a new bathroom" Candace goes back to her office and opens her drawers and picks out tiles, and fixtures, and lighting, and paint colors. Then she sends the people away and when they return--WAH-LAH--there is beautiful new bathroom.
My life is not like that. We have to not only pick out the tiles but guess how many we will need. We have to choose a vanity with an ugly fake granite top because it is the only one that will fit the space. We have to tear out the wallpaper (fun) and flooring. We have to take out the old toilet and choose a new one. We have to find a paint color that will go with the floor and the ugly vanity and not look too washed out. The samples I get don't work out. I pick out a color from a chip but then it looks too washed out so we buy a gallon of a darker version. (We have to paint tomorrow so no more samples).
Bart the plumber is coming Monday to install the new shower valve. I ordered the valve cover (the thing you use to turn the water on and off) online--but it comes in about a million pieces. I hope Bart knows how to put it together or we will have to follow the directions in 3 languages.
Bill is coming on Tuesday to start working on the tile and the shower. We still have no idea about how the door will work. (I can't order the door until the tile work is done).
Bathroom remodeling is hell. Never again. It doesn't help that we have the world's tiniest bathroom.
Nor does it make any sense to spend big money on a bathroom in a small cheap house.
My life is not like that. We have to not only pick out the tiles but guess how many we will need. We have to choose a vanity with an ugly fake granite top because it is the only one that will fit the space. We have to tear out the wallpaper (fun) and flooring. We have to take out the old toilet and choose a new one. We have to find a paint color that will go with the floor and the ugly vanity and not look too washed out. The samples I get don't work out. I pick out a color from a chip but then it looks too washed out so we buy a gallon of a darker version. (We have to paint tomorrow so no more samples).
Bart the plumber is coming Monday to install the new shower valve. I ordered the valve cover (the thing you use to turn the water on and off) online--but it comes in about a million pieces. I hope Bart knows how to put it together or we will have to follow the directions in 3 languages.
Bill is coming on Tuesday to start working on the tile and the shower. We still have no idea about how the door will work. (I can't order the door until the tile work is done).
Bathroom remodeling is hell. Never again. It doesn't help that we have the world's tiniest bathroom.
Nor does it make any sense to spend big money on a bathroom in a small cheap house.
# posted by Carol Harma @ 7:31 PM 
