I am OBSESSED with HGTV Property Virgins, and House Hunters. We used to have our DVR set to record it when we were house hunting..now that we have a house, I still watch it, but not religiously. We were watching an episode the other night where the wife wanted move in ready, and hubby wanted to do a little work to the house. The husband kept making a statement about how no one wants to move into a house and not have to change anything, and it not really being your own. Hmm....
We bought our house and up until this weekend haven't changed a thing. We know we want to paint the butt ugly Michigan State color work out room, but we've held off because of the wedding, and holidays. This house is painted the exact colors I would have picked out. I don't really see the point in changing it, just because the old owners picked the colors not us. We even have extremely similar furniture...which we had before we moved in. We just got really lucky.
Home improvement projects stress me out, I hate starting things and not getting them finished. If I think about things for too long I can't make up my mind, I start second guessing everything. So why stress when everything was already done?. Every project that we have done to this house (mainly landscaping) we've decided to do it very spur of the moment. Most conversations sound like this... "I don't want to put Christmas lights on these bushes, want to just rip them out?" "Sure get the saw" "I hate all these trees, want to cut them down?" "Sure let me call my dad and he'll bring the chainsaw over...he'll be here in 10 minutes"
This weekend was no different. Aaron decided Friday we needed some new lighting in our kitchen. It had the very 90's tack lighting..which we hated, but lived with. Two of the lights have finally burned out, so instead of getting bulbs we decided to just get a new light. As we were walking through Menards trying to pick kitchen lighting the ADD kicked in, suddenly Aaron wanted outside lighting as well, because what we have now is "so ugly, and old."
We got our lights after much debate, and came home to start the project. The outside lights seemed to go up without too many issues. The father in law came over to help see us through our first major project. You know it's not a true home improvement project without at least one extra unplanned trip to the store..but we got it done. It looks great, and the three little lights really change the front of the house.
The kitchen light wasn't so easy. Our first mistake was attempting to do it at 10:30 at night, with the lights all off...genius I know, it's the unfinished feeling I can't stand. We abandoned the project for a cocktail and went to bed. We got up bright and early went back to the store to pick a different light, because we weren't in love with the one we originally bought, and spent about an hour hanging the light. It looks good. It doesn't match any other light, so now we have to replace them all, but one step at a time.
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