My second son will be here in less than a month. So I’ve spent the past 2 months doing some major renovations in the nursery, the kitchen and now our master bedroom.
The nursery was a lot but easy enough, I built out a closet since there wasn’t one, reframed and put in new windows (the ones ones must’ve been a thousand years old by my guess) and laid new floor and trim all around.
The kitchen sucked, total gut and remodel, new drywall all around including the ceiling, managed to keep the counters and cabinets, they’re not my favorite but they work and saved us a nice penny, fixed a leak I found under the sink. The ceiling was awful, I’m so happy it’s done but my back is still yelling at me.
Now I’m on to the master bedroom, I’m extending the closet opening. The closet itself is 8x2 but the opening is a foot and half for some reason. Putting in new windows, replacing the subloor since most of it is falling apart and rotted (has been for a while), laying new floors and patching up some drywall.
When we moved into this house it was falling apart. “We’ll have time to do it” we said a week before finding out we were pregnant. So I started putting in overtime and got a second job so not much got done aside from my sons room which was rushed and not my best work. This time around I’m very grateful to have the time and money to do all this. I’ve done everything myself with a lot of help from my 3 year old. He loves being ‘construction guys’ and has actually been really helpful through everything. It’s been a lot, but my heart is full and happy.
You sound incredibly handy. To give some contrast: I had a garage spring break, and said - fuck that, we’ll hire someone cuz I don’t want to mess with it.
I did general construction and framing for a while when I was younger so I feel like it’s kind of a “I saw how the cake is made” thing where I have a hard time trusting anyone to do it right or paying $3,000 for something when I could do it for $300 even if I don’t want to.
We hired someone once to put in a new tub/shower and replace the old pipes in the bathroom. The plumber seemed great but within a few months we realized there were 3 different leaks in the bathroom that I had to back and fix along with checking everything else he touched after trying to get the guy back out here for a month.