I dreamed for years regarding my strawberry plant crawling into my window, it was sending out runners, I now have French Strawberry plants. Okay Jo Jo if you want send the picture with the seed and plant to me directly to my email address. I will ask John Trager, Now I really want to know. Guessing doesn't count. Tell him where it was found, in what state and city you purchasedi, and Nursery. I can't wait to find out. It not growing like a vine to me, it is growing too straight.The leaves do remind me a plants that I do have, and I just saw the seeds for the first time Mon. so perhaps? Norma He's pretty good at this an very accurate.

Both Macv and Manhatten are on point, but i would add one thing as I'm planning on doing an additon to my cape, consider the full second floor. I'm not saying its cheaper, it isn't but its not all that more expensive, it really depends on finishes etc. You're going to add the expensive room doing your half dormer, the bathroom. if you do both, you can keep the 1 bath upstairs, and make it 3-4 bedrooms up there. $$ that were thrown around when we were considering the half dormer were in the 45-55K range, for the full in the 75-90K. Again, it really depends on what you want to do. put in a master bath on top of that, central air etc, you start being more etc etc. Basically I had a real hard time finding anyone who was really willing to do the half dormer given the current prices of houses in my area.

Second guessing is second nature when you're spending a lot of money. The whole remodeling process is very stressful! Forgive yourself for finding it unpleasant at times. We were forced into a major remodel by a fire. While we knew we'd need to update when we bought our 1956 ranch five years ago, we were nowhere near ready to do it. In our last house we thought about the kitchen remodel for SEVEN YEARS before we finally got to work. Once it was done, we were very happy, and during the work it didn't seem so bad. I think that's because we'd thought so very hard about every detail. In our current situation, I anticipate a lot of buyer's remorse. Remodeling an entire house is just too much to do all at once, at least for us. My take-home lesson from my experience is that I will never be able to build a dream home with my husband, unless I plan on using that to break up our marriage. Here is just a brief glimpse into our daily life. Our house is currently gutted down to framing. The new roof is about 2/3 done. The new ceilings are about half framed. We have one interior room that is going to get an 11' ceiling (!!). The framer did it wrong and put it at 10'. He showed it my husband and said "what do you think?" Instead of saying, no, that's not right, my husband told him "hmmm, looks pretty high! I'll talk to my wife and see what she says." He reported this to me last night at 5. I was baffled as to how he could not just tell the framer to do it right. Changing the ceiling height dominoes into a bunch of other decisions, none of which my husband thought of. sigh. So I went over to the house and looked at the new framing. 10' is high, but 11' is what we planned and what we wanted. So I thanked the framer for bringing it up and asked him to redo it. Which he gladly agreed to. ARGH! Every day we go through something like this. It is not fun. I'm looking forward to June when I can break out the vodka in my new house and toast the end of this part of my life! It's great advice above to accept that some of your decisions won't be right, but you can always go back and change it.

I am about 150 miles south and just pulled out all tile and carpet replacing with new tile throughout except 4 bedrooms. i entertained the idea of polished concrete... love the look. But decided on tile and glad I did. Once everything was pulled up, found surprises. Cracks, funky chipped away part in three spots, and at some point some portion had linoleum or something (black glue gunk all over). Plus, if house is built right you should have expansion openings (the are called something fancier). If/when you tear out tile, be sure you have a budget to replace if needed.