Home Improvement Projects - What am I getting myself into?
Have you ever stood there on the brink of diving into a home improvement project, and stopped for a moment to ponder what you are about to undertake? "Wait a minute," you say. "Just exactly what am I getting myself into?"
My dh and I haven't exactly done every home improvement project imaginable, but we've done more than our fair share of them in our handful of years together so far. For three years we rebuilt, restored, and remodeled a little 1949 Cape Cod brick house, which seemed like the Money Pit at the time, but in the end netted us around $30K. Now we're on to a 1986 cookie-cutter Colonial. We might have thought buying a newer home meant less work, but all that has happened is we have a lesser-quality house to start with (they don't build them like they used to), and it needs everything, just as much as the Cape Cod did. So we are starting some new ones now.
This blog will be our way of sharing with you the nitty gritty of the projects we have undertaken, or presently have underway. That way, if you are thinking of doing something that we've already done (or tried to do), you'll have the benefit of our experience to give you a heads-up before you dive in.
Our lack of professional expertise in anything remotely related to home improvement is exactly why we are the perfect "experts" to describe projects to other novices. We speak in lay terms, and define the new words we've learned along the way... you get the picture. (Did I mention we will share pictures? Lots of them!)
So keep an eye on home-remodeling-help.com and see what you're getting into!
