• December 6, 2003

Staying Married Through the Restoration

Our secrets for not killing each other during the stress of a major remodel

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  1. sharonkApril 10, 2004 - 1:19 pm
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    This totally sounds familiar…
    I agree, each person should have their own “sphere of influence” in the renovation, there is much less stress that way.

    I tend to be a little more cavalier about “contaminants” – my husband freaks if he thinks anything within 10 feet of a paint brush is going to be used with food again…we won’t even talk about the measures I have to go through to ‘disinfect’ the kitchen sink when I have been too lazy to run down to the utility sink in the basement to wash out a paintbrush…:)


  2. Anne in Portland OrJune 29, 2004 - 3:43 pm
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    This sounds so familar. After tearing down a wall in our livingroom, our conversation was: Don – “Why do you get so aggressive?!, the whole house could’ve come down on you!” Anne – “The wall was not even connected to the ceiling, it’s not a bearing wall and the wallpaper and plaster were all cracked and crumbling. Now we can repair the chimmney that we didn’t have access to on the end of the wall and we’ve opened up the livingroom” Don-”It will take months to fix all of this” Anne-”No it won’t” and so on. Like you I was raised on a farm, barefoot and all. My husband is strictly a city boy and remodeling is all so new to him. – Keep at it,eventually you work out a routine between the two of you – we did.


  3. mommydearestJuly 1, 2004 - 6:37 am
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    Try living through minor restorations with three children and a live-in Mom. AAARGHHHH! I do feel bad for her right now, we are working on our bathroom on the main floor and she is 64 and has to walk up and/or down the stairs every time the need arises. I keep telling her it is good for her bones.


  4. ColDecember 16, 2006 - 3:11 pm
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    There are few people who realize the value in saving such a house. Marriage is kind of like that too. I hope you succeed at both. Thanks for documenting your experience. I enjoyed it thoroughly and the house is fantastic. I am on my third remodel, second marriage. I think I have it down but you know the saying…..”you’d be surprised how little I knew up until yesterday”.



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