what kind of house pretty-up? how’s your plan coming?
i had our contractor here today, going over the final plans for our kitchen re-do. He’s going to order the cabinets tomorrow, and said 2-3 weeks for them to come in, he anticipates starting in Sept and figures we will be out of a kitchen for 3-4 weeks. With xsboy back to school in a few weeks and the rest of us dieting and eating mostly salads we should not be too inconvenienced. we have a small refrigerator, sink and dishwasher in the butlers pantry downstairs, as well as a microwave. Oh and the foreman grill, which is mostly what i use to cook chicken.
To do some outdoor pretty-up for sale-make it look more like a house and less like a fort. I’ve decided on a realtor-a person who deals in just rural stuff only.
The big companies I talked to acted like they were doing me a f’in favor to list something “out there”, and wanted me to pay their workers to make the thing look manicured like it is in some la-de-da enclave in the city-I don’t think so...
Are your cabinets being custom made? I’ve found it is actually less expensive to do that around here, unless someone is just so charmed with something off the rack that nothing else will do. Also, custom made means less cutting or shimming to get that perfect fit.
I’m hopefully having the same person make the same cabinets for my next house as did this one-I know it sounds boring, but when I find a style and price that works for me, I tend to stick with it-and I saved nearly $3000 over the price of the ones I liked at the home store that were just the same...