Help! I hate my new flooring! Should I tear it out?
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The bad news is I am tearing out my garden!
Comments (9)Alexis, Congratulations on the new house! What a great adventure you and your DH will have doing all the landscaping and garden building after you get settled into your new home, Your garden looks so lovely right now---it would break my heart to have to yank it out, but sometimes you have to make tough decisions like that. You'll have a lovely garden next year and every year thereafter. I assume you're going to disassemble all the raised beds y'all built and take them and your great soil mix with you? That will give you a great head start on the new garden. Look at it this way---the 100 degree days are arriving this week in the parts of OK that haven't already started hitting 100 degrees and once they arrive, the plants begin to struggle in the endless heat, so the garden productivity would start dropping off anyhow. That fact ought to make tearing out the garden somewhat less heartbreaking. I do hope you tear out your tomato plants last thing so that you can harvest as much as possible from them. Remember that any tomatoes that make it to the breaker stage will color up fine and taste great, so pick and save all those when it is time to take out the plants. What a wonderful adventure you two are about to embark upon. I have such fond memories of our first home and how much fun we had not only with furnishing and decorating our home, but also with landscaping it, planting fruit trees and berries, and putting in our veggie and herb gardens and flower beds. So many wonderful decisions lie ahead for y'all and I know the two of you will create an awesome landscape and garden around your home. Keep us posted on how its going. Have you broken the news to your dog that he's going to have a much larger yard? I bet he'll love it. Dawn...See MoreHelp - I hate my new backsplash!!!
Comments (12)Don't know how to help without pictures. From all that I have read here, the BS decision is the #1 decision nightmare. Feeling your pain here. In my case the actual tile came in the wrong color and crackle finish. My contractor did install it (knowing full well he may have to tear it all out) but with a change of grout color, it looks warmer. It actually looks like I knew what the heck I was doing :) He did have to rip some tile out around the garden window, b/c he not like how that running board looked, but there was no damage to the cabs. A good contractor will have the right tools to remove you tile carefully if that's the way you want to go. Take a deep breath, have a glass of wine, and don't rush into a hasty decision. Best of luck to you!...See MoreShould i tear out all the drywall in the living room or not??
Comments (11)For the ceiling, I would leave the drywall, cut holes as necessary and add (glue and screw) new drywall over the existing ceiling. I'm in an area with a large percentage of pre-WWII housing and working in an older house can be a challenge. My preferred electrician is an old house guy who understands how to run wires and where to cut holes to get maximum benefit for minimum disruption. If you are lucky enough to have a single story with attic access, there's very few spots that need patching. Some electricians can't seem to run wires unless they can see every single stud and other obstruction. Painters and electricians have quite a bit of friction since electricians trim out after walls are painted and painters have to touch up afterwards. Something about black fingerprints or smudges on a fresh white ceiling irritates the painters every time....See MoreI hate my new backsplash! Help with possible paint color?
Comments (23)If you want to try to save the backsplash before changing it, you could try painting the walls the same white as the cabinets. If possible, paint the ceiling also. Paint would eliminate one if not two warm tones that the tile is currently competing with. From there you could also try changing out your hardware (fairly easy and inexpensive). If you have stainless appliances, go with a silver color, which will provide another gray tone; or else brushed brass/gold, which would work well if you can't change the ceiling color. Mixed metals in the kitchen are in right now so you don't have to worry about the sink faucet :) white walls and ceiling, silver hardware white wall, original ceiling, gold/brushed brass hardware...See MoreUser
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