It's all over but the shouting. And the door.

[darkemeralds]

Hoo-whee, I'm tired. And boy do my hands hurt.

The interior portion of the mudroom is pretty well done. The concrete is set, the walls and floor and window trim are painted, the floor paint is drying, the tools are mostly put away, the sheet of plywood acting as a back door is screwed back up to the frame, and I'm calling it a weekend well spent.

There are three or four punchlist items I still need to do, and then it's just a matter of waiting for my new door.

And then? The back garden. But not till my hands stop hurting.



Remember this?


Now it looks like this, including the concrete wot I poured:

Comments

[rainkatt]

Wow.

[darkemeralds]

Heh. Yeah. Normally this is the kind of thing you bother with when you want to sell the place. I'm kind of pleased to have it nice for my own continued use.

[rainkatt]

As a non-homeowner, I've always been confused about that whole wait-to-fix-it-only-to-sell-it thing. I would think it would be nice to actually enjoy all that hard work yourself, so congratulations for now being able to use such a lovely space, even if it will just get dirty. :-)

[darkemeralds]

It seems like a conspiracy between realtors and contractors to me: people spend tens of thousands of dollars on "curb appeal" and other fix-ups deemed necessary to sell the place, only to go move into another house where someone else has done the same so that they can sell it.

Since I expect to be in this house the rest of my life, more or less, the only measure of whether the expenditure and effort are "worth it" is my own enjoyment. I've had more than one realtor and contractor tell me that the location and size of the house make remodeling "not worth it" but I say screw that.

[rainkatt]

That makes sense to me. "Worth it" should be in the eyes of the human who is using the space.

I always figure most of the cosmetic stuff done to sell a house will get trashed by the new owners, anyway, but I'm happy in my one-bedroom apt., so I may be missing some crucial concept.