Wait and see?

With the unstableness of the economy - should we wait before committing large amount of cash towards our renovation efforts? This amount of money can carry us a long ways.

Another layer of complexity in this already overly-complicated decision making process. *lily screaming*

Misplaced decimal?!?!

We're starting to get some quotes back from contractors. The image says it all.

When I read the numbers for the first estimate, I read it like five times because I was thinking... surely there's a misplaced decimal somewhere.

Our home is talking to us

Not so subtly, our home has been trying to tell us a message...

First our refrigerator stopped working. And of course, it has a sense of humor, it breaks down at midnight, the night before we have to wake up early and spend an entire day outside. Being that we have an ancient refrigerator that needs to be defrosted, the melted frost starts flooding our kitchen floor. To avoid any possibility of the water dripping into our downstairs neighbor and causing any sort of damage, we had to clean it up. 3 hours later, we manage to defrost the freezer; the ice filled our entire sink - which conveniently helped keep all the frozen food somewhat cool. Miraculously, after the 3 hour break, we held our breath and turned on the fridge and voila, it worked. We know that we're on borrowed time and we need a new fridge ASAP.


Then, 2 out of 3 shelves in our medicine cabinet shattered. The shelves are on these very unstable brackets and they fall about once a month. This time, they fell and broke.

So, yes, house, we hear you. It's time to renovate. We know. We're working on it.