I've told you that the husband and I have embarked on a new home improvement project renovating the back half of our house and building the master bedroom suite of our dreams.
Unfortunately, I was born with absolutely no aptitude or interest in home interior design.
I realize that most women love home interior design and fussing with curtains and bath fixtures and finding just the right things with just the right look for the rooms in their home. I know lots of women who pore over the latest issue of House Beautiful and Country Home and they have their dream kitchen already completely planned out in their head.
I'm not one of them.
I get a headache just thinking about it.
I'm getting a headache now just writing about it.
Dan kept warning me that we needed to go pick out the shower and tub and sinks so he could keep moving on the project. I ignored him as long as I could.
This weekend, he actually got a sitter (yes, he did) so we could go to the home improvement stores.
I'm easily overwhelmed by too many choices. I crack under pressure. I have a hard time making home improvement decisions and even found myself, at one point, in the sink aisle at Home Depot calling my sister (who is one of those women-who-love-home-interior-design) to say "So...if I get a pedestal sink for the 1/2 bath, where am I going to put extra toilet paper??!?!"
I took at least an hour to pick out the tub. The conversation I was having with myself in my head was sort of like this: Should I get the kind with the jets? Everyone has those now. They're apparently a big deal, but I don't really want them. And, I mean...how do you clean them? Won't they get all black in the there? And, would I even use them? Do I want bubbles blowing all over the place in there? I don't even take baths that often. And, if I get one that blows air, then Cindy said I have to be sure to get a heater to keep the water warm and blah, blah, blah." (See why I get a headache).
So, we finally settled on a tub and a corner shower.
Then, the husband says "we have to get the plumbing fixtures for the shower and tub."
OK, fine. Where are the fixtures?
We turn the corner and there's in an ENTIRE AISLE of shower fixtures. I almost cried.
I sat down on a toilet in a nearby display and said to my husband, "You pick. I'm done. This is just stupid."
Seriously...there is such a thing as too much choice.
What about you? Are you easily overwhelmed by choices...or do you enjoy having lots of options? And...by the way...what color is your bedroom?
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We built a beach house. We didn't build it, builders built it, but we had to pick everything out and what not. The project began at the end of my freshman year and was done, and (almost) fully furnished by August 15th that same summer. I believe we moved in a few days later. Mom loved it - the whole project. I enjoyed working on a documentary of how much progress was made each time we visited (I later lost 75% of the footage when my PC crashed). No one listened to the ideas and opinons of the teenager b/c what did she know? Nothing. Needless to say, all of the fixtures in the house match - we did standard brushed nickel everything. I did manage to squeeze in a fish doorknob on the sink of my ocean themed bathroom, and my parental units have a seashell knob on their sink cabinet. Whoever said you couldn't build a house out of Lowes was an idiot, because pretty much everything in that house came from that store. Almost 2 years later and all of the walls are still white primer. I'm dying to paint my glow-in-the-dark star bedroom a cobalt blue, my father continually ignores my request. My bedroom at our house-house is a light blue. This entry inspired me to add the rest of the pictures to my kodakgallery.com album... I'll send you a link when it's done uploading. As far as choices overwhelming me goes - I'm an artist, I like color, other than that I can manage with standard-ness! Happy building!
Posted by Michelle F. | March 25, 2008 2:27 AM
Posted on March 25, 2008 02:27