a cardboard box under the motorway

[the_siobhan]

Kitchen renovation plans continue apace. We have had more people in this house over the last two weeks than in the entire year previous. It has been surprisingly stressful. I'm not good at having people in my space any more.

The guy we are probably going to hire isn't the cheapest, but I like how up-front he is about timelines and cost and he was very willing to explain everything in detail. The whole tear-down and rebuild is going to take longer and be more expensive than normal just because you can't get machinery into our backyard so it all has to be done by hard manual labour and hard manual labour charges by the hour.

On the plus side, we won't have to move out while the work is going on, so that will save us a bit of dosh.

I am occasionally tempted by listings of houses in other cities where properties aren't going for a billion dollars. But I'd probably end up starting the renovation process over again from scratch, and I'm not sure I'm ready for that either

Comments

[hel_ana]

I think it's because it's so performative, like a jock's idea of what "goth" is.

I also always wonder about people who need that many angles to see themselves having sex.

[the_siobhan]

What does it say that my first thought was to look at the stairs and think, "Hey, that's not code!"

[elusis]

Sio, he's a basement waterproofer, not a basement stairs-er. Have some patience.

[elusis]

He's apparently a horror film fan, a group that also has a tendency to imagine what "goth" is in some rather party-store type ways.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/business/real-estate/bs-bz-goth-house-20210329-seybhhhr4zf67mmko6hs7bepxi-story.html

[greylock]

Some people like what they like.

I mean, I can't figure out why they half-arsed a Munster's vibe, with grid iron shit, and destroyed the re-sale of the house, and had a sexless sex dungeon; and in my experience weirdos who like mannikens put them out the front to let their freak flag fly...

That house is owned by the guy who loved the 2002 Twilight Zone theme. You know it.

[elusis]

He totally, totally did. He also loved that cover of the Halloween theme.

[greylock]

I am so out of the loop, I have no idea what cover you mean!

Unless this is a Lil Nas X reference, somehow.