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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, May 07, 2018 - 9:36 pm 
Shoot, I freeze when I have to make relatively small decisions! Home design ones - can I say my kitchen cabinets are still hunter green and I have looked up how to paint them at least 20 times? But that would entail choosing a color...
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, May 07, 2018 - 9:44 pm
Hahahaha, Roxip. I have needed to install a towel rack for at least 1, maybe 2 years. I purchased one that was bronze toned which would look great, however, I didn't realize/think that I wouldn't be able to just screw it into the wall. You have to do all these machinations to put them up so the screws won't show.
So I finally decided I would look to see if there are ones that screw into the wall, and what you know there are, but they are silver.
I am at the point I don't really care anymore, so I have one now and I need to put it up. I think I have had it about 2 weeks, and today I took it out of the box and looked to see how to put it up.
I might get it up tomorrow.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, May 08, 2018 - 7:15 am
My toilet paper holder is lying on the bathroom floor next to the toilet...probably for over a year now. Those darned screws just wouldn't hold it up!
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Tuesday, May 08, 2018 - 8:20 am
Dear Roxie, I bought at Home Goods a free standing tp holder that also holders 2 extra rolls.
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Cass_cat
Member
05-09-2011
| Tuesday, May 08, 2018 - 11:37 am
I watched this train-wreck of a show during its original run and really enjoyed it...
HOWEVER, I think the home decorating audience from the original run to present time has changed, matured.
It around the time the Trading Spaces' original run was winding down that I started watching HGTV's Designer's Challenge... I considered it to me a much better show... then of course Fixer Upper... where good taste reigned supreme.
Trading Spaces hasn't evolved at all... somethings like a room remodel shouldn't be rushed and crazy designers with weird ideas really don't help...
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Cass_cat
Member
05-09-2011
| Tuesday, May 08, 2018 - 3:06 pm
Disregard above post... it was meant for the Trading Spaces page...
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Wednesday, May 09, 2018 - 7:30 am
But it was still a good post both times I read it...LOL!
I don't have room for a freestanding toilet paper holder...although come to think of it the toilet paper roll on top of the trash can isn't a good look either.
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Wednesday, May 09, 2018 - 7:33 am
Remember form follows function.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 04, 2018 - 6:46 pm
LOVE it or LIST it...I am watching a show from 2017 and I am sorry but you do not convert the garage into an in-law unit if you are going to sell it. The new buyers will want a garage.
So I bet they are going to LOVE IT.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 04, 2018 - 6:59 pm
So the house David found was even better for the family, plus they could move away from all the relatives that had moved and surrounded them....
AND....they decided to LOVE IT, LOL.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, June 23, 2018 - 1:06 pm
Off the Grid....A homebuilding show on Animal planet. I watched a family build a totally self sufficient home in Montana, they wanted to be debt free so they could travel, they did end up getting a mortgage.
Then I watched a very young couple build a round earth*bag home on a family homestead, I think it was in Montana as well.
Anyway, I get living off the grid but none of these people seemed to have jobs so where did they get the money to pay for all the supplies, etc to build. Especially the young couple.
The older couple could have had jobs and been saving for a while, but the young ones were barely in their 20's.
Just boggles my mind since it took me 53 years of hard work to save up enough to buy my home!
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Willwillbee
Member
09-19-2001
| Monday, June 25, 2018 - 1:56 am
Dipo, if a person is low income, they can buy a house for nothing down with down pmt assistance programs available in most states or with a USDA/RD loan - closing costs can be rolled into the loan if the property appraises high enough.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, June 25, 2018 - 7:32 am
I watch Building Off the Grid off and on and some of those houses are really incredible. I saw the "earth bag home" one. Perhaps they had just saved every penny they had...they didn't have to buy the land because it was on a family homeplace, and much of the labor was volunteered.
I wish I had the saving gene...LOL!
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 25, 2018 - 12:56 pm
I realize that Willwillbee, but you still have to have an income to make the mortgage payments and even affordable/low interest loans require that you qualify.
Roxip, yeah, I knew the land was free, but I didn't hear anything from that couple that indicated they had worked anywhere in order to save the money to buy the supplies. And they talked about how they didn't have the money to fix the bridge, I think it was going to cost about $10,000.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, June 25, 2018 - 2:50 pm
I have wondered the same thing. Even if they did have jobs how could they take off several months at a time in order to spend all their time on these builds?
Did you see the one where the Montana couple was building the house (with unattached garage)? I know both of them had jobs but they had obviously taken a lengthy leave in order to build their homes.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, June 25, 2018 - 3:35 pm
Were they the ones who put the solar panels on their garage? I saw that one and wondered the same thing, LOL.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, June 25, 2018 - 3:45 pm
Yes, and they lived in a tent (albeit a very nice tent) while they were building.
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 5:51 pm
Those are called YURTS, I believe. They tend to run around 30K. I think they have a website for them.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, April 20, 2019 - 9:11 pm
NATE & JERIMIAH BY DESIGN -- I love this show, and watching it now.... why do people think that they can do home improvement just by watching some YouTube videos, just cracks me up that people believe this.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Sunday, April 21, 2019 - 3:41 pm
um. My husband and I used to watch this old house and did remodeling on our own home. I am paying for some of the mistakes now, but we did most of it ourselves. We did call in an electrician, but we did all the plumbing, I did the venting and my ex did the drainage, with my approval, I took a 6 week course in plumbing your house at high school night school. ha ha.When I hired a contractor for my kitchen I called in a professional plumber and electrician to help as required by law when you get the proper permits.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, April 21, 2019 - 8:11 pm
I totally get doing it yourself when you take classes. I mean seriously you can watch youtube for some things but I sure wouldn't use youtube for anything electrical or plumbing wise.
Sheetrocking, tiling, that stuff you can learn from youtube but you still don't know how hard it is and there is a learning curve.
I learned that personally, I will never, ever, try to change out grout myself ever again. I will pay someone to do it. Sure it wasn't that hard but it would have been a lot better if I had someone else do it, LOL.
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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Monday, April 22, 2019 - 1:12 am
ha ha, I am hiring someone to redo my grout also, it keeps getting moldy. I found my add on water pik showerhead was full of mold, so that is in the garbage now. I could not see it until I took it down, and I could not get it open to clean it out so going to buy a new one soon. I have a fixed one on now and I can't get all parts of me wet with that original one. But it is clean.
And the plumbing class was 6 3 hour classes after work at night. We never even got to weld, but now you use plastics anyway so no biggie. Mostly we concentrated on emergency repairs, not redoing an entire bathroom.
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 12:53 pm
Best Room Wins debuted last night with Genivive Gorter. I liked it. It started with Hollywood Regency which is one of my favorite genres in home decor.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Thursday, May 02, 2019 - 1:11 pm
Haven't heard of that one...and I really like Genevive.
I canceled my recording of Trading Spaces...I watched an episode or two and I just got annoyed...I really don't think that show has aged well and I don't get a kick out of seeing people's homes abused.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Saturday, May 04, 2019 - 8:11 am
The show just started right now where I am. I already like it. Probably because they are real designers and they get $25,000. This is actual designing.
Love that the clients are so different and the show matched the homeowners with designers with similar tastes.
Stupid gas fireplace. The home owners should have had that installed before the designer got there if they wanted it so bad.
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