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You might be a Redneck gardener if........
Comments (32)You know you're a stuck up bi*ch if you... think your manicured yard looks better than everyone elses and you love to make fun of anything original. OK Carolann.....I'm rotfl with that! :) Down here, we don't make fun of the way people live. So true Janie..... :) Us southerner's *have* been ridiculed for all sorts of things related to our lifestyles, especially our garden/yard/home conditions. We've seen both sides of the coin. (I know a certain northern girl with a planted tub, and another texas young lady who wanted to scour the world for a pink toliet for her yard.) :) Both examples could be considered "redneck" but for us with a garden junk fetish, it's nothing related to redneck! It's related to creativity and originality! So, being redneck, can mean lots of things to lots of people, and while *I'm* not offended by that thread, I certainly understand others who may find it offensive. (((Janie))) Angie in NC...See MoreYou might be a compost wacko if...
Comments (24)@JTCsai dirt makes very poor compost. There is someone in Park Merced who is a compost wacko. He or she had lots of earth machine, but they must have forbidden it. A few years later I looked and now he has only a tumbler and some garbage cans. I decided to take a tiny little peek to see what was in there, and it was just dirt or soil. It was not compost. So, I figure he tried to use dirt as his browns, and it failed. So, I am looking in there and there is dirt only and worms just dying to escape. So, I guess, in general, you might be a compost wacko if you want to peek at other people's compost....See MoreYou know you have a flip-flopped/remuddled house if..
Comments (3)Some one save me from ignorant or is it lazy homeowners! The ones who: Can't clean or properly prep a surface BEFORE they paint. They try covering the grease and the dirt with paint or wallpaper! Can't fix a leaky valve on a toilet so over a LONG period of time the entire floor rots. It's just DUMB luck that the toilet didn't fall from the first floor to the basement....In my dreams it would have been wonderful tho if the PO had been sitting on it! Can't be bothered to prep the walls properly for wallpaper and just throw it up there. Later when their "taste" change they paint over the wall paper making it nearly impossible to do anything but start over. Couldn't leave the built ins alone decided they had to saw them off. Needed to glue the rug down on to what was a hardwood floor. The ones that paint hardware because they didn't like the shine! The ones who didn't mix the paint BEFORE they started putting it on the wall. The ones who nailed stuff when it should have be screwed together AND instead of using a finishing nail used a penny nail! The ones who thought that duct tape could repair EVERYTHING including: the rip in the tile in the kitchen(bright green goes with everything right?) the broken windows ( they might as well used it for a window covering it covered most of the windows in the one room. the door that came off the hinges (how that happened came about I can only guess) as a sub for electrical tape in a few of the wall switches and for the proper fitting for a leaky sink. I'm sure there's more but those are the ones that make me cringe the most....See MoreHow/if would you remodel this house?
Comments (27)DH vetoed switching the kitchen and dining room, which I kind of expected. I do like stainless, but we've bought all new white appliances (except the fridge) so they'll be staying for a while. We need to get a new fridge next year, and I hate cleaning the textured finish all the white ones seem to have, so I might look at stainless steel for that. My problem with designing a kitchen is that I like so much. That, and I have champagne tastes and a beer budget, but I think that's a problem for a lot of people. I love the kitchen and building a house forums, but they can drive you crazy with all the fantastic stuff everywhere. Since our house was built in '68, the peninsula has that typical half-circle bookcase under it. Well, it did; the shelves were broken so I pulled it out. But the counter is still there. I wonder if when the counter is gone (I think it overhangs about a foot) if the space will feel much bigger. I would still like to make the doorway into the dining room bigger, I think. We're also going to add some sort of counter space behind the back door, whether it's from a built-in or from extending the cabinets next to it. Here's something I drew up really quick. The screened porch is 10x12, the deck is 5 1/2x 14 (so not really big enough for much, but we could fit a table at the far end, which is why the stairs are more toward the middle). The stairs start with that large landing, then go down to the next landing and turn. I doubt they's need that much considering the height, but I did it that way anyway. The gap will have a railing, and underneath will be storage. The blue area is concrete; DH wants a place to play basketball and the kids want a place to ride bikes and scooters. The brown circle is the locust tree, the large white circle is a patio table, the small blue circle is a fire pit and the white rectangle is a potting shed. The line at the rear of the garage is the current fence; on the other side it's at the front of the house. I've also cut off the rounded end of the peninsula, widened the dining room doorway to 5' (might go down to 4'), moved the storage to the corner behind the door and extended the fridge to 36"....See More
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