This summer my bride and I began working together. This required that we convert an unused bedroom into her office. At the time, she made a reasonable request to paint the room first.
I noted that this would also be an ideal time to replace the carpet. I had planned to ditch the aged 25-year-old carpet throughout our home next year anyway, so we picked out and ordered the carpet for the entire job.
Candy’s office was painted and re-carpeted on schedule. However, re-carpeting the rest of the house set in motion a chain reaction, which I call the domino effect of home improvement.
It was pointed out that before installing the rest of the carpet, it would be preferable to have all the non-carpeted areas redone first, not later. That too had been planned for next year.
However, the existing bathroom cabinets—also planned for replacement in two years—had a larger footprint than what is currently available. So, new cabinets were picked out and installed first.
Between the cabinet replacement and redoing the flooring, both bathrooms have been out of commission for a couple of weeks. (Fortunately, the guest bathroom was still functional.)
Of course, this was an ideal time to repaint the bathrooms.
But, with the flooring tore up, it was the window of opportunity to try to fix the squeaking floors. The list goes on…
In the midst of this, I decided to move my office next to my bride’s, as opposed to being at the opposite end of the house on a different level. This meant buying a new desk since the other one wouldn’t fit in the new room.
At this point, every room in the house—save the guest room — is either in various states of remodeling or is storing furniture from the other rooms.
I think that our home is currently at the peak of disarray and can now anticipate steady movement towards getting back to normal.
As for dominoes, I think I’ve had enough of them for a while.
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