One new dishwasher = completely remodeled house

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It is just endless. Also ripped up the baseboards to put new ones on.

As far as flair....my wife and I are a good combo. She points out what she likes and if I don't dislike it I'm the affordablility guy. However, with the home equity line going into the improvements it's going to be hard to say "that's $50 more than I wanted to spend on the faucet". Really considering I was planning on about $4K for flooring about 1100 sq ft and I got all the stuff for 2200 (love lumber liquidators).

Where I'm having a hard time limiting expenses is on the new kitchen counters. We can get a new tile counter custom built for about $35 a linear foot, but I'd rather have some sort of fake stone (like dupont corian kind of stuff), but that over 50 a square foot at the low end.

Glass door on the fridge? Not on your life.