amiencc's Profile

You need to start over. If you replace just one thing, it will instantly be mismatched and make everything else look even dingier. The shower tile looks fine, so yes, I would reglaze the tub. I have a reglazed tub and three years later it still looks brand new. I would also replace the drain, as I'm sure it is rusted, and the spout and dial. Get rid of the horrible linoleum and install a nice neutral ceramic tile floor. New toilet (they are inexpensive and you can learn how to install it yourself), new vanity (make sure you replace the vanity before you replace the floor). If this is your main bath, do not put in a pedestal...you need the storage. A lot of the bath can be DIY except for the tub reglazing!

I used to do the laundry, cooking, cleaning, taking the trash out, AND all the technical things like home repairs AND I took his car in for repairs...he didn't do anything except watch the game and yell 'What's for dinner?" I unloaded my 200 lb infant (Bitter, party of one!) and now my time spent doing housework has plummeted and it has become much more pleasant...AND my house is much cleaner and stays that way longer.

Your neighbors have a right to peace and quiet, and it sounds like you have disregarded that on numerous occasions already. I used to have to be up at 7am on Saturday mornings for work, so I certainly didn't appreciate my college-age neighbors blasting Justin Timberlake and screaming and laughing loudly on their deck at 11pm. I did call the cops, because I have a right to be able to sleep and they can take their party inside. Since it does not sound like this is a 'once a year event' I would take the party elsewhere and leave your neighbors be.

I could just do without seeing naked children on AT, thanks!

A door in the middle of a stairwell? So you have to walk up the stairs, step back down a few stairs so you can open the door all the way, then go back up the stairs....that is just dumb to put a door there...

The fact is that only a small percentage of homes are actually in foreclosure, and these are people who bought way too much home in the first place. They couldn't afford it when they bought it, and their ARM adjusted, and now they are boo-hooing that there is a crisis. There is no housing crisis for the intelligent people who bought within their means, saved a proper downpayment, and made sure their credit was good enough for a fixed rate instead of an ARM. You talk like everyone is experiencing this, like we're in the midst of the Great Depression. Stop contributing to the panic. The reporting in the meida overall has become so SO irresponsible! And those pictures are horrible.

I love how you say this was a project for a 'client'...the 'client' is your mother or some such family member...I recognize the kitchen from a previous before and after (and the odd-man-out chair still bothers me)

This contest has dragged on waaay too long, it's very cumbersome, and the judges didn't choose very well. I voted once, and that is it. It's actually turned me off of AT and I am visiting less and less frequently. Apparently, they didn't take any reader suggestions from last years contest seriously enough to fix these probelms.

So is *everything* vintage worth keeping?

This is why I'm not voting...it isn't set up fairly