reno finished - house sold - looks pretty darn good - made very nice profit (same with previous ppor and the one before that and the one before that) - moving back to ppor that is only 1/4 reno'd - want to stop and live there for at least next 5 years! - neighbour has just knocked down and rebuilt at the cost of $4mil+ ...
i finished going thru my huge stack of home design magazines, cutting out all the bits that i like the look of for the ppor (kitchen shape, benchtop colour, fireplace surrounds, front fence/path/door, water feature etc etc) and pasted them up on ideas boards. most of the ideas are not expensive and more to do with styling or sourcing.
anyhow, showed them to hubby because he cannot seem to grasp a concept from words.
his only comment "you'll be overcaptialising".
what the ... ? i'm looking at $1-150max ... and that includes rendering the entire outside of a double story 1980's knobbly brick house and rebuilding the garage. we bought the house for $1mil, now worth around $1.5mil, neighbour spent $4mil+ and not even at lockup ... how can ii be overcapitalising!
when i asked what did he mean, and what area was he talking about - clammed up. was it updating the 1980's laminate and peeling kitchen? was it getting the green/brown pebblecrete pool relined in a dark blue? "you'll be overcapitalising"
on the current house i either had to fight, was criticised or derided for just about every choice - didn't like the paint colour, complained about the cost of the builtins (cheapest in newcastle), didn't like the bathroom layout or tiles (wanted to reuse the old lacy toilet), the kitchen bench was too expensive (wanted laminate!), argued over putting in new cupboards in the laundry instead of bodgey revamped old kitchen cupboards etc etc - after four very profitable ppor renovations, and a couple of ips, i am so tired of having to argue, or get criticised, over everything to get the best outcome. yet, every time we make a profit in the hundreds of thousands.
the problem is that he doesn't do the shopping for goods - so doesn't have a clue about what things cost (but insists that i do it) so thinks prices are the same as 20 years ago - and is also stuck in a time warp of the 80/90's and thinks knobbly red brick with white coach lights looks modern.
i don't want sympathy - i will battle my way thru - but i would like to hear that i am not the only one.
although i do think i've convinced him of the larger master bedroom.
i finished going thru my huge stack of home design magazines, cutting out all the bits that i like the look of for the ppor (kitchen shape, benchtop colour, fireplace surrounds, front fence/path/door, water feature etc etc) and pasted them up on ideas boards. most of the ideas are not expensive and more to do with styling or sourcing.
anyhow, showed them to hubby because he cannot seem to grasp a concept from words.
his only comment "you'll be overcaptialising".
what the ... ? i'm looking at $1-150max ... and that includes rendering the entire outside of a double story 1980's knobbly brick house and rebuilding the garage. we bought the house for $1mil, now worth around $1.5mil, neighbour spent $4mil+ and not even at lockup ... how can ii be overcapitalising!
when i asked what did he mean, and what area was he talking about - clammed up. was it updating the 1980's laminate and peeling kitchen? was it getting the green/brown pebblecrete pool relined in a dark blue? "you'll be overcapitalising"
on the current house i either had to fight, was criticised or derided for just about every choice - didn't like the paint colour, complained about the cost of the builtins (cheapest in newcastle), didn't like the bathroom layout or tiles (wanted to reuse the old lacy toilet), the kitchen bench was too expensive (wanted laminate!), argued over putting in new cupboards in the laundry instead of bodgey revamped old kitchen cupboards etc etc - after four very profitable ppor renovations, and a couple of ips, i am so tired of having to argue, or get criticised, over everything to get the best outcome. yet, every time we make a profit in the hundreds of thousands.
the problem is that he doesn't do the shopping for goods - so doesn't have a clue about what things cost (but insists that i do it) so thinks prices are the same as 20 years ago - and is also stuck in a time warp of the 80/90's and thinks knobbly red brick with white coach lights looks modern.
i don't want sympathy - i will battle my way thru - but i would like to hear that i am not the only one.
although i do think i've convinced him of the larger master bedroom.
