I've been lurking for a couple of years. Some of you might remember my posts over on the other site:
"Back again with another house"
(am I allowed to post the link here?)
and
"Some before photos of our Vic Row House"
There are lots of photos there, if I can link to it.
We had decided to help out our kids with buying them places to rent from us. We could only afford handy-man specials, though, so we had renos to undertake.
The first was a Victorian row house, and the second a Craftsman-ish duplex, which was 2 apartments. We renovated that, and put one kid up with a room-mate and one kid down with a husband.
That last project started out well and then got the best of me. I became an emotional mess with the stress of unforeseen issues and tradesmen who didn't know what they were doing/took advantage/wouldn't finish their work...so I took a break from the big push to get it all done. There was no joy in my heart.
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The kids have been in their places for a year and a half, and I am finally getting around to finishing up some projects like trim, exterior painting, etc. It's been going pretty well, but I've been stripping paint from an old door and wishing that I had never started. Why couldn't I just be happy with the lumpy paint???? I need some encouragement, so I have come here to find it.
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I would love to talk about whitewashing the basement stone walls. Who has done it? Tell me how!