Home Improvment H E DoubleHockeySticks  

About 9 months ago we moved from a 960 sq ft mobile home to a 2500 sq ft, two-story, 100 year old farm house. We did a lot of minor (and some not-so minor) home improvement on the mobile home, and my hubby always complained that if we had a house things would be more standard sized, things would be easier to repair or replace... you get the picture.

Well, its tax time and we decided to start some minor jobs we could do in a day or two. Let me just say that just because its an actual brick and mortar house, and not a mobile home, there is no law saying things will be standard or easy.

Our first project is an actual door on our bedroom. Our house had 4 conforming bedrooms and one non-conforming bedroom. Our goal, make it a conforming bedroom so in the distant future, when we sell, we can sell it as a five bedroom. After taking off the old trim, tearing out a 2x4 and trimming back the drywall so our doorway is a standard 36x80 again, we run to the local home improvement store and buy a door, a knob, nails and new trim. Guess what. No, the doorway is NOT standard. Now, far be it from me to say that maybe my hubby didn't measure 100% correctly. So what does he do? He trims the door and frame down to the appropriate height, complaining the whole time. "Why can't anything just be standard?" "Why do I start these d$%m projects?" "Next time we are hiring a carpenter!"

Goddess help me, he wants to put new stone tile flooring down in the kitchen next weekend!