JAM,
thanks for the words of wisdom, I know I should take my time but I just can't wait to get it all over with
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As far as the house goes, I am re-doing all the floors, mainly in saltillo tile but will also have some hardwoods placed (the contractor does not like laminant and says this will be out of style soon)-I think the flooring is going to cost the most. I have "cottage cheese" celings and will have all of these scraped off and re-textured. In the den I will have wood beams put up in the ceiling to make it feel more like I guess you would say a log cabin? (my mother calls it my "hacinda"-I think that is the way you spell spanish for house)
And the cats are driving me crazy so I am going to have the laundry room changed into a "litterbox" room, it will be walled off with a small opening for them and a small door for me to be able to go in and change the litterboxes. The washer and dryer will be placed in the garage.
Then the downstairs bathroom will be totally re-done except for the tub which is white-I can deal with this.
Next year I will do my upstairs. The master bathroom will get a whirl pool jacuzzi tub and I am going to take half of my huge walk in closet and make it into a sauna. I am going to place a plasma (sp?) TV above the tub so I can have a nice long soak and watch TV
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Then there is the outside-I am going to have all new landscaping done in the front yard and eventually in the back which will include a hot tub-this is probably 2-3 years away though.
I get so excited just thinking about it
. Of course working all of the overtime to pay for this is not as exciting.