The Best Lessons...
As I have mentioned, my husband Allan and I are working on redoing house number 7. As we were wiping down some walls and woodwork this morning before painting, (he painted, I went to work at the shop), I thought about how many times we had done this before. Then I thought back to the house that started it all…..
Our first project was a 3 bedroom 1 & ½ bath house in Darlington. The first thing we had to do was clean all the trash out of the house and the large storage area/garage and there was a LOT of it. After that was accomplished, we went to work on the inside of the house. We redid the full bath and the kitchen and painted every room along with doing other projects that taught us some great lessons.
We learned that you shouldn’t walk on floors that you have just sanded with dirty shoes because unless you want to sand the floors again you will always have the faint outline of footprints on your floors. We had already returned the floor sander by the time we figured out the footprints wouldn’t come completely off so we lived with the footprints. We learned that you shouldn’t put in orange kitchen countertops even if you love orange because if you can’t afford to change them in 4 or 5 years…..yep, you guessed it, to this day I am not fond of the color orange. We learned that even though it’s “in style”, kitchen carpet is NEVER a smart choice. We learned that it’s not a really good idea to stain and varnish for several hours in a closed up house unless you wanted to be sick for about 3 days. Dumb, dumb, dumb…
Those were all great lessons but I think the best lessons we learned were how to work with each other, make compromises, do the job right the first time and only think about killing each other, not actually follow through with it…k
February 15, 2015