One new dishwasher = completely remodeled house
 

About three weeks, we decided to replace the dishwasher. 14 years old, loud, doesn't clean very well anymore....so it was off to Home Depot.

Well, you know how HD is. Right next to the shiny new dishwashers were shiny new ovens and stoves and spacesaver microwaves. And there was a sale going on.

Well, the next Saturday they were delivered. Looked great. So good, our 14 year old fridge started looking pretty bad. So back to HD, where we found a nice shiny new fridge (all of this is stainless steel).

So we started looking at the rest of our house.

200 square feet of tile installed in the bathrooms. In the process of ripping up all the carpet to put down 1100 square feet of laminate now (I didn't do the tile, I am doing the laminate). Before putting new flooring down, though, it only makes sense to paint the walls that haven't been painted since we bought the house (including my 20 ft vaulted ceiling).

Washing machine broke this past weekend. Coincidence? Or sabotage? Why pay to fix a 14 year old washer? New set comes Saturday.

Kids rooms? Being repainted. Not just with a coat of paint, but thematically. Damned Ty Pennington and his stupid show. One of those done, two to go. Our room was repainted not too long ago.

Kitchen counters? Going to replace. With what? I'll have a better idea after I finish refacing the cabintry.

I have at least 4 more straight weekends of intense home improvement labor staring at me, probably 5 or 6.

I'm probably going to have to replace some windows, too. Duel panes windows that have cracked and allowed water to get between the panes, and the mineral deposits have made it so we cannot see out of so of them.

Home equity lines of credit are a wonderful thing.

All because we needed a new dishwasher.

HA! This is Chris' worse fear realized. He's just gratefut it was realized in your house on your budget. ;)

You lost me at shiny.

I think that's the closest scaeagles has ever gotten to posting a poem ;)

Home improvement rules. We fell into the same appliance craziness when we decided that the dishwasher had to go. It made the range look awful, and when it turned out it needed a repair we tossed it and got a new one. New counters means new sink, new faucet, and a new disposal (though that was free, the fault of the plumbers).

There are so many things that I wish we could make "perfect", but the serious stuff is not in the cards any time soon. More art and decorative touches, yes indeed, new windows, not so much.

Here's to hard workin' spring weekends :cheers:

Sinks! How can I forget about sinks! Of course those go with the counters. Silly me. And faucets, too.

And if you're buying a sink you may as well get a cool one in a specific color or shape....and if you're buying a faucet you're going to get a quality one with a bit of flair, right?

New faucet means new hardware for the kitchen drawers to match as well...

Sucks ya right in, doesn't it, Leo?

I'm having a blast though.

It'll be time to start on the kitchen soon.

I so want one of these. I said nothing about need ;) Want

Sounds entirely reasonable to me :D

It's a slippery slope. I'm putting in a 2 person whirlpool tub, as a result, we had to add a whole new septic system...

Dude, that thing is a monster! All I can think is "I'd have to keep the fridge clean, everyone can see what's inside" ;)