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Murphy's Law

Dec 4, 2006
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Or: Things I've Learned Since We Bought This Damned House Over Three Months Ago

I do not want to paint any part of the house myself. Not even the laundry room/walk-in closet that looked so small before we started. I might want to do it if I had time (read " had no toddler") and was doing it by myself (read "my husband is A Very Bad Painter"), but under the current circumstances? No way. We are going to pay someone else to do the rest of it. We'll probably pay them to second coat the laundry room, too.
Pay close attention to the layout of your new kitchen cabinets, and ASK WHICH SIDE THE DOORS WILL BE HINGED ON. Because I was not smart enough to do this, I have a kitchen full of cabinets that are hinged exactly opposite of what makes sense to me. At this point, I'm just going to live with it.
When shopping for a house, be sure to take into account the height of the ceilings versus the height of your husband. 6' 6" husband + 7' 5" ceilings upstairs = waaaay too much time spent looking for a "hugger" style (flush mount) ceiling fan/light fixture (damn you, Cape Cod style house, damn you). The upside is that what's available that fits our needs is very nice indeed. The downside is, it's so nice it sort of hurts our bank account.
The contractor will install at least one cabinet so that the door can not be opened completely. This one is so stupid I can't even explain it right now. I'ma make 'em fix it, though.
The windows are not consistent widths throughout the house, and very few of them are standard widths. This will make it very difficult to find window coverings that both my husband and I can live with, at a price we can live with.

There are probably a bajillion other things I've learned, but I'm so tired from running out the house all the time to check on the work, trying to get our apartment cleaned so it can be shown to prospective renters, poring over paint colors and trying to convince my husband that he will not hate it if it's not all plain white, and trying to start packing with The Bug underfoot, that I'm just going to stop there.

I'll leave you with the latest photographic evidence that progress is being made, and I'll ask your opinion on the colors for the living room. Main color = lambskin, accent wall = that dark brown color whose name I can't remember, baseboards & trim (throughout the whole downstairs) = white dove.