Murphy's Law
We seem to be able to paint without incident. We don't knock the paint bucket over, fall off the ladder, or even end up with drips. Sure, there are a few strokes of paint on the ceiling that I wish weren't there - but in the total scheme of things not many - and overall, painting has been successful for us. Yes. I can say that with confidence.
But we have had bigger, more complicated projects involving power tools and measuring tapes and levels and 'stud' finders that haven't been so simple. We pretty much found that if there was a box of decorative shelving in the store that was missing its hardware, we ended up with it. If there was a package of some closet-organizer stuff that has screws that are too long and end up going all the way through the wall of the closet and out the other side right into another room, well, we managed to buy it. (The screws that came with our kitchen cabinet door pulls are too short though, so maybe that all works out in some cosmic way that escapes our understanding at this moment.) "Budget Blinds" simply didn't suit MY budget, and I might be destined to live with (shudder) vertical blinds that simply don't suit MY taste.
Oh well. The place is looking a lot better, in spite of the travails. We got rid of the purple wall, and the orange one and the lavender ones... The wood trim looks quite smart now in its crisp white paint. (All three coats of it.) We have some pictures hung, the dreadful 'fruit' light fixture replaced, and the kitchen cabinet facings cleaned up and restored. The closets are well on their way to being reconfigured to maximize space, and I guess we can always make a 'feature' out of the tips of the screws that stick out the other side of the wall and into the other bedroom. Anyway, we've become experts at repairing walls - a necessary skill to develop when you move into a house where people thought repairs need only involve sticking a piece of tape over all holes, no matter the size, and painting over them.
We are greeted warmly by the employees of our local Home Depot by now - we are, after all, paying their salaries and probably see more of them than their own families.
All in all, we've really made good use of the time we've had with Todd being here. And we've been very glad to have his help and problem-solving skills and positive attitude.
We have one more day together, and I'm sure it will be trouble free. What else could go wrong, after all?
posted by Cathy @ 11:39 PM
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I am going to call you the Murphys said our ignorant but also fat realtor from KY. Hopefully he has found a different occupation as he was an failure as a realtor. We managed to prevail against him and everything that the house and fine chinese manufacturing could throw at us. And we were still talking to each other at the end. Thanks Cathy and Todd
I (unfortunately) share your bad luck with things having incomplete, missing or just plain wrong hardware packages. We recently bought a table and set (of two) chairs for our back patio (made in China, by the way). the table was complete but the chairs had only enough hardware (special steel plates and black bolts, nuts, and washers) to assemble one chair. To their credit Lowes was willing to take them back and give us a new set, but I was unwilling to pack everything back into the box in order to return it. I put it together with "temporary" hardware and we will now take our chances with the "800" number we are supposed to call in case of "missing or broken" parts.
Good grief!
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