The one room that needs the most work...

We are lucky. Our house only has a few rooms left upstairs that need to be painted. I would love to have some stuff completely redone (can we say meld the dining room and the kitchen to make one LARGE kitchen??), but that simply is not going to happen in this house. I would have to say that we have already done the hardest room in the house. When we bought our house, it had a finished basement, but there was dingy carpet down there and white walls. It was nasty and drab. So we got a quote from Lowes on what it would cost to buy and have them install tile down there. Over $3000 bucks!!! We were floored!! So, we went to a tile warehouse, got multi-colored slate tile on sale for $0.99/sq.ft. and installed it ourselves. Neither of us had ever done it before, so it was a project! My husband did all of the tiling, and when he was away on business, I surprised him by doing all of the grouting while he was gone. It was quite messy and labor-intensive, but we did it. We painted the walls, tiled the floor, and were good to go! It doesn't even look like the same space. I also have done some painting techniques on some of the walls in my house, which was also kind of labor intensive. The leather-look of the walls in the kitchen took forever, but it looks kind of Mediterranean and it is really pretty. The streaking stain on the walls in the guest room in the basement was not as hard, but still harder than just painting. This is my first house, and I'm loving doing the work myself. It is a real sense of accomplishment when you finish a project and look at the fruits of your labor. :)

We don't have a house yet, and we plan to buy new so we can move the (doublewide) house straight from the manufacturer to the land we've picked out. So with that being said, if we did have a house I think we'd do it ourselves or hire people we trust that we are also friends with rather then hire out to people we don't know, or don't trust, etc.

for us, it would need to be the kitchen. the way they built the house was horrible, they put the bathroon plumbing in wrong so that if you lean in on the shower, it leaks into the kitchen and it has leaked some, so that needs to be done.

Congratulations on your recent moved to another house. well, at least you get to renovate a little rather than buying an entire new house and re decorate everything, including the extensions. of, course until you expect a lot of visitors, you don't really need to get it all done in a year since you have a home and getting things done sloly.

i have done severals things my self to my house but can't hardly do it any more. i don't need any thing now but something will pop up before i know it.i put tiles in both of my bed rooms and painted the walls.made my curtainss too.

We bought a "fixerupper" about 3 years ago too. My hubby is very good at fixing things and has done a lot to this house. He has redone the fireplace with tiles and did the flooring in all bathrooms. The paint was done by us both, which did so much for this house.

we rent our house but we have been here for so long that we do stuff like painting. we were lucky as the owner kept the house really nice. it was the house she grew up in so she is emotionally she is attached to it. I owned a house before this and I understand how you feel like the maintenance and repairs never ends. I will be back in that situation in about a year and I don't look forward to it.

Hi Book.....nice to know we are not the only ones who did this...LOL We did the same thing in buying a fixer upper. We wanted out in the country so we found and old farm house a couple years ago and believe me we must have been totally out of our minds when we bought it. We have managed to fix the foundation which was in bad need of repair and have done a wrap around porch that was already there just needed a few new boards and some fresh paint. Believe me it will be a beautiful place when we get it done, but with doing all the work ourselves it is going to take along time. Can't wait to have grandchildren and hang a tire swing in the big tree in the front yard for them to swing on. flutterby