My Cabinet Knobs Need Updating?????
I love watching HGTV. I seem to watch a lot of the "My House is Worth What?" episodes. I really wonder how those people can keep their house looking like no one lives there. Everything is so spic and span, no dust, no clutter at all, nothing on the kitchen counter, not even a newspaper, mail or book laying around. I wonder where people get sums of money like $30,000 for a kitchen make over or $20,000 for a redo on the bathroom. Do people just have that much laying around that they won't need for retirement, kids college, fix the car, emergencies, etc? I have, I think what you'd call a "craftsman" home, built sometime in the 30's. I am currently on the plumber list to get a new sewer pipe as my old clay one seems to have died sometime ago from tree root invasion. Now some of my meager savings goes to things like that. I recently got a new gas stove and a new Fridge with an ice maker. I felt I deserved an ice maker at my age. My old stove worked but didn't have the updated tubing so while I got new tubing I got a new stove. The hauling guys said they had never seen a stove as big as my old one and they haul for Sears everyday. Once I started using the new stove I see why they said it was big. I hardly have room for a skillet on my new stove. Plus against HGTV's great advice they are not stainless steel and don't match my microwave (have you priced stainless steel lately?). I am afraid everything I have in my kitchen is NOT what a buyer would consider "up-to-date", i.e., cabinet door knobs, floor tiles, marble counter tops and I have a country theme and wallpaper which is a no-no. My bathroom is old fashioned and it is not a "master bath" attached to a "master suite". I have five grandchildren, of which three are below the age of 7 so I seem to always have clutter, the screen on my front door screen needs redone (too many hands have pushed on it). I love my house tho, because I have bedrooms twice as big as most homes, I have high ceilings without having asked for them (don't people know heating bills would be cheaper with lower ceilings), I have an attached carport, and I have a screened in front porch where I spend summers plus I have room for all my garage sale finds!
posted by Ann at
2:28 PM
1 Comments:
Hi Ann, I think your house sounds wonderful! I would love a screened in porch and high ceilings. I bought the stainless appliances last year and I hate them. They are so hard to keep clean. I wish I had white like before. Anyway, I am back online finally and so glad to be visiting my blogging friends. I have a lot of catching up to do. Hope all is well with you.
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