The One With The Rambling Addition Complaint
April 12, 2005 | Filed under: Stuff
This is my middle daughter and dog, happily playing in snowmelt at Donner Lake. You can look at this soothing picture while listening to my complaints, LOL …
We’re putting an addition on our house. When I say “we”, I mean my husband and the mouse in his pocket. I have taken myself right out of the equation because we’ve only demo’d one bathroom so far and I’m already losing it. Dust everywhere. No bathtub. Floorboards gone.
And the spiders are going to take over, I know it.
Our house is in a lovely spot, you’ve seen the pictures. But it is admittedly WAY too small for us. We’ve got two kids in a postage-stamp size room, and another in a room that she can’t even turn around in without bumping her elbows on the walls ( of course if she stopped spinning around like a diva, it might help) . With all five of us in the living room, there’s waaaaay too many of us in a tight space, and someone is always saying “she’s touching me!”. The kitchen needs serious help as well because currently you can’t run a toaster and the can opener at the same time without sparks. There’s an entire downstairs we don’t utilize because it’s too cold and was never insulated properly.
(plus there’s spiders down there)
Luckily my husband is a builder, so one of us knows what we’re doing, but the thought of what lies ahead makes me need to lie down. I’ve heard that adding on is harder than getting married. Or divorced. Or getting an agent.
I hope I make it … More so I hope I don’t end up killing my husband. I hear there’s no chocolate in prison …
Posted by Jill @ 5:09 pm | Make a Comment
Suzanne says:
Ack, good luck! My husband wants to demolish our bathroom and start over and I am thinking of just throwing myself off the back deck.
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 6:10 pmCarrie says:
Now you tell me there is spiders down there….Will you still have a guest suite? :confused:
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 6:18 pmJill says:
Suzanne, I’ll join you in the plunge off the deck …
Carrie, LOL! There are spiders EVERYWHERE as you know all too well, and for you, there’s always a guest suite … of course it might be in the tree house …
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 6:32 pmSasha says:
There might be snakes in the treehouse. :crazy:
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 7:35 pmJan says:
Lol, Jill. I’ve been the remodeling route and can say I’m a survivor! Though there were times during the tear down/rebuild stage that it could’ve gone either way.
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 8:16 pmJill says:
LOL, Sasha my husband doesn’t have a lot of phobias but snakes … he is not so happy about snakes, and on our first day here he found a snake in the garage. I’ll never forget the look on his face, LOL …
Jan, oh boy. This is not good news.
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 9:11 pmDanica says:
No Sasha, there’s probably BEARS in the treehouse! :O Imagine, cuddling up with that nice soft fur, and there’s this growling in your ear… but it’s not who you think it is!
Okay, someone’s had waay too much sugar or something today.
Jill, I feel for you. My husband is also in the construction industry, and I swear, if I find one more unfinished project in my house, I’m taking that stack of 2X4s that lived in my parking spot in the garage (until I made all sorts of ugly threats because I HATE having to scrape my car) and I’m shoving them up… er, okay, you get the point… projecting here…
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 9:11 pmTammy says:
Good Luck Jill! I hope your hubby is better at finishing projects than mine. I would really like to know why every guy I’ve ever known has said " no, don’t hire someone else for that… I can do it! :crazy:
Posted on April 12th, 2005 at 9:30 pmSasha says:
LOL @ Danica!
I doubt there’s Bears IN the tree house, but Guests might never LEAVE the tree house due to the Bears parked beneath it! :laugh:
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 12:31 pmMichelle says:
I married an engineer. He’s a do-it-yourselfer, too. It’s good, on the one hand, because he does the jobs well and they tend to last. But he takes FREAKING FOREVER to do them! It took around 10 months to build a fence. 2 days to install the front door. Sigh… :crazy:
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 3:34 amSela says:
My "darling" husband decided that he should gut and rebuild the kitchen. While I was pregnant. It took 6 months.
Every once in a while I take my medal for sainthood off the mantel to polish it.
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 3:59 amJudy says:
a good friend of mines hubby does construction and she has the same complaints. The jobs get done but they take f o r e v e r……
I will sneek in some chocholate for you
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 4:37 amSue says:
oh yes (mine didn’t know what the hell he was doing) I’ve been there it took for ever. I was ready for the nut house but finally got my bathroom done
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 4:51 amso it does work out
soon or later hang in there
but I will sneek in some chocholate for you if you just have to go!
Mary says:
My husband is a project freak. He is presently painting the laundry room the color "he likes." Next the guest bath. I just let him amuse himself.
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 5:40 amMargery says:
(((Hugs))) Jill. I’m so thankful the biggest project my dh has started was a remodel of the bathroom. He did do a great job, but I’d never survive a whole house re-do.
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 7:05 amCheyenne McCray says:
LOL. If you end up in prison, I’ll send you chocolate.
Good luck with the remodeling. We are SO not do-it-yourselfers. I wish we were. We’d get a lot more done around here!
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 7:45 amraeleigh says:
If I didn’t know better, I would say my mom has become an author and goes by the pen name of Jill Shalvis. Would you like someone to commiserate with? Cuz uh, like I said. I swear she could have written that post.
RaeLeigh
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 8:30 amJill says:
Today my husband said he might start the footings for the add-on. I pointed out the torn out bathroom, and thought um MAYBE he should finish that first.
Definitely I’m going to prison by the end of this …
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 9:07 amCynthia says:
Jill, NEVER question your husband when he’s also a builder. LOL.
My hubby’s a builder, too, so I feel your pain. We’re living in a dinky rental house right now and hoping to move into our house at the end of May/beginning of June. It’s nowhere near being finished. But when I asked my hubby why he didn’t finish the one wall…well, let’s just say I got the lecture about the ways of building.
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 10:10 amKate Hardy says:
Eek, Jill! Now you tell me about the ‘like getting divorced thing’ – and I’ve just booked a builder to do our extension… But our kitchen is tiny, I need a proper office with lots and lots of shelves, and DH isn’t doing any of it himself (on pain of … I dunno. Something nasty).
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 10:12 amKatie says:
Ack! Remodeling! Take a deep breath and keep repeating, "It’ll be so great when its done, it will be so great when its done." And walk away Quickly.
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 10:57 amkacey says:
Bummer. Chocolate. Strawberries. Wine. Hard liquor.
Whatever it takes to make it through!
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 1:10 pmJill says:
There are clouds moving in! Damn it. Now I’m going to have to do the DON’T SNOW dance. This requires lots of girl scout cookies and possibly alcohol …
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 2:40 pmJordan says:
I hear you can get anything in prison, but that may be just a rumor.
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 3:34 pmJodi says:
Where do I begin! We are seriously thinking about adding on to our house. The housing market here is booming, (only 20 houses on the market!) and the prices went through the roof. So, we were too late in buying a bigger house. My DH decided that he would do it himself, and I about fell over laughing! I, like Michelle, married an Engineer, and yes, they are all the same. He’s been working on one bathroom for over a year! We did get one room done, but it took 2 months. Ugh, I’m done! (and we haven’t even started the major stuff!)
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 3:40 pmSasha says:
At christmas time my brother gave my dad a list, and email joke type of list, of Rules that Men should give women.
The one they liked the most, and they were happy to share with us after my Mom tried to tell my Dad how to cut the turkey, was. "They can ASK you to do something, OR TELL you how to do it. But they can’t ask YOU to do it and THEN tell you how to do it. "
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 4:01 pm:rolleyes:
Jill says:
Men.
‘Nuff said.
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 5:55 pmDonna M says:
Good luck Jill!!
Posted on April 13th, 2005 at 9:06 pmMy Mom & Dad built their first house (after WWII) with a lot of help from family & friends. When we moved in it was not finished! My Mom said NEVER again!! When they moved to a bigger house it was one that was completed & built by a contractor!!!! It will be great when it is done. Keep saying that & make sure you never run out of chocolate!!!
Jill says:
Donna, LOL, I understand your mom’s sentiment!!
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