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Oops. Glad I don't live in one of those neighborhoods. (actually, wish I lived in one of those neighborhoods)
Welcome to the club buddy. My wife is so particular about everything. Takes her weeks to make up her mind. She also has little sympathy when I'm working till I collapse. I'm trying to dig up about 1,000 sq ft of weed/sod so that I can lay down plastic and then put down gravel around our fire pit. It's hard work. I can do 100 sq. ft. a day before I'm worn out. Dig, load, relocate...repeat. I proposed that I dig up one side to help with drainage flow, and just cover the rest with gravel..."Won't it be uneven? What about the weeds you're leaving? Is it THAT much more work?" Oy.
Inside the house is the wife's decision, outside is mine. The decision on new counter tops, floor and back splash has been in the decision making phase for the last 6 months.
You wanna come down and do a little gravel patio for me? My gf wants to spruce up our small backyard.
no, went with manufactured wood lap. If we were going to stay in the house, I would have gone with vinyl. Just looking to polish the turd and put it on the market.
What's your point?She's 7 months pregnant...That's kind of the trump card for her.
same boat here. Paint color for a laundry area (a ####ing laundry area) took a month. Worst is when we're out to dinner and the waiter comes back and says that they're all out of ______. I want to tell the waiter that he might as well come back in 30 minutes.
I always feel that Lowe's has much nicer finishing stuff. I only have a Hd by me and they have pretty much everything I need structurally. I never deviate from what they have in stock for the finishing stuff either. I even went and just bought the white vinyl siding right off the shelf. I don't care enough to go through the hassle of ordering anything.
Personally, I prefer more local hardware stores whenever possible, but Home Depot works as well.
The brand positioning of the two has typically been that Home Depot is more angled towards the pro who needs a wide array of stuff in one spot, where as Lowes is more angled towards the DIY home-improvement guy. Neither will ever best a dedicated tile place for tile, or a dedicated plumbing place for plumbing, etc. I LIKE Lowe's better aesthetically, but I have found that Home Depot tends to have slightly better prices and tends to have the more technical stuff I need. I pass a Lowes on my way home from work, so I stop there more often, but occasionally I HAVE to go to Home Depot for something Lowes doesn't have. Very rarely do I find myself finding something that I HAVE to go to Lowes for.
What happened? I usually figure an ER trip into the cost of a project upfront. Super glue is also a nice option.
Why don't you rent a sod cutter?ETA, didn't see the previous post about the sod cutter but that's the best advice.
For anyone that had any doubts about my level of stupidity, I took it up a notch on Saturday.
I used to go to church camp where we helped on houses for the less fortunate. Tarred and shingled a roof in 105 degree heat in east Texas. That has to be worth some points.
Damn, I forgot all about that machine. I rented one with my first house years ago. We put in a deck on the back (builder didn't have it standard) and the wife wanted to do landscaping around the house. Outside of right in the front, there was no landscaping around the house, so it was a lot to do by hand. Loved that thing, saved a ton of time and sanity.
me too. Ugh
The weeping cherries look cool for a little while but they can get pretty rough looking depending on the season. I have a regular flowering cherry that I really like. The blooms are only on it for about a week but it's still nice looking afterward. When we bought our house 5 years ago, I spent weeks reading online, going to nurseries, and looking around neighborhoods to find what I liked the best.
HD and Lowes right next to each other here. HD has self checkout and a hot Colombian woman so I always go there. Lowes is always more crowded and I can get in and out of HD quicker so it's my first choice.
Actually, most local owned businesses can beat the pricing on the home centers and you usually deal with a person who knows exactly what the hell he or she is talking about. I tell all my customers to use the local hardware/lumberyards as opposed to the big box stores when possible.
I agree, but for appliances/furniture/sinks, sometimes the box stores are the only game in town.
