Comments on: There are no pictures. . .

By: Mom101

Mom101 — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:18:38 +0000

I just cannot figure out where you find the time to be all prolific and gramatically correct and stuff when you’re going through all this. It just isn’t fair.

By: Lady M

Lady M — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:07:53 +0000

The copper-wall-to-be sounds fantastic. Maybe you should go for a mural in the kids room – that will keep you arms aching for weeks, just what you need!

Good luck with the bank adventures with the bank.

By: Melanie Marie

Melanie Marie — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:55:10 +0000

OH. MY. GOD… wow… another reason not to buy a house! Well, I guess it doesn’t really matter. I had the pleasure of walking in on my maintenance man using my bathroom (he left the door wide open!). Now I’m friends with his wife! Um, yeah… I saw her husband’s p***s, that’s not akward!

By: Shalee

Shalee — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:44:47 +0000

Well, at least your arms and chest will look toned if you keep the painting up… Hey, I’m trying to find a bright side here because painting ranks up there with dewallpapering… Ugh.

By: ScottsdaleGirl

ScottsdaleGirl — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:07:22 +0000

*running away from post*…screaming.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:38:31 +0000

D! Oh no…

By: Summer

Summer — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:08:02 +0000

If I ever had any doubt that women are superior to men, they’ve been erased by your contractor story. It wouldn’t have been a problem for me, as I am always prepared with my Purse of Power. A packet of tissues and a little bottle of hand santizer (from the dollar store, smells overpoweringly of raspberry yogurt, but what do you want for 2/$1?) would have overcome the issue of the unstocked bathroom.

I’d also like to tell Angel not to fear the Ralph Lauren metallic paint. When I did the green in my dining room, it only took two coats, and that was going over both dark red and a patch that was only primer, where I’d had to fix the plaster. You do have to be very careful with your roller strokes, though, especially on the final coat, but the final effect is quite worth the extra effort.

Mir, perhaps you could appease Chickadee with some sort of birdy accoutrement for her casino?

By: tori

tori — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:43:48 +0000

After reading all these comments about the people using buckets and things, I am no longer upset that the guy who finished our basement spent hours in our bathroom stinking up our house. We had toilet paper, towels AND soap in the bathroom and considering the alternatives suggested in the comments above and your story, I suppose I was lucky!

By: Cele

Cele — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:08:11 +0000

I think I need therapy now. I hope you survive, I’m going to have nightmares. Oh shudder.

By: Evelyn

Evelyn — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:46:48 +0000

In the house I lived in in college, the contractor who was redoing the basement used a bucket in the garage… and was walked in on more than one occasion since one doesn’t expect that to be happening in a garage… This despite the fact that there were two fully functional bathrooms.

Anyway! Good luck with the moving! There’s nothing better for a new marriage than moving a long distance and home decoration, if you can make it through that, you’re golden :)