Home improvement plans
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Denny and I are trying to get motivated to make some improvements to the house. We need to finish painting the kitchen. Right now they have the hideous wallpaper mostly removed and the walls are primed, but not painted. Also, when the previous owners put in the wallpaper, they did an extremely thorough job. For example, they seem to have actually moved out the stove and refrigerator, wallpapered the walls, then moved the appliances back. That means that to finish the wallpaper removal job, we’re going to have to move those bad boys somehow.
We also want to paint the living room, put laminate floors down in one of the rooms in the basement, and do something to the basement walls other than that creepy ’70’s paneling that’s there now.
We also really need an entertainment center or two, because one TV is sitting on the floor in the living room, and the other one is sitting on an old end table handed down from my parents.
I don’t really know where we’re going to find the time or money to do these things, but I guess we’ll figure it out somehow. Denny recently went to a seminar on how to be a millionaire, so I’m really hoping that pans out for him, what with his money being half mine and all. We could buy a really great entertainment center for a million dollars. It would be made out of solid diamonds and saffron.
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HGTV did a really cool thing with dark panelling on a show last year. After painting it a soft beige/tan, they did a sponging technique with a variety of different colors. It turned out beautifully. Aunt Suzy did something similar in one of the rooms in her house, and your dad even mentioned how much he liked it.
A saffron-stuffed pillow would be even awesomer, because it would be not only needlessly wasteful but invisibly so. How decadent! Like pre-revolutionary France.
I totally feel your “trying to get motivated” thing. We have tons of crap that we could/should be doing to our place, but we’re both enervated at the prospect (and I’m intimidated by anything vaguely handy or craft-y). I knew home ownership would have its ups and downs, but I never imagined it would be a focus of vaguely worrying guilt and inertia.
While you’re thinking about remodeling, you should check this out. Mmm. Kitchen pr0n.
Funny, I also invoke saffron when I’m making “expensive!” hyperboles. I think saffron is a pretty clever alternative to the ol’ Fabergé egg.
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