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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Both sound like strange premises for a competition - I mean, would I really want to live in a house I had constructed or renovated myself? I suffer from delusions of competence as much as the next person, but I must say "um, no."
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Last summer, I exchanged my manual labor in the renovation of my brother's apartment for the design and installation of a new fireplace. My brother is an architect, and I figured it'd be no big deal for him to figure out how to take my fire place out of the disco era. (At some point in the 70s or 80s, someone thought it'd be a grand idea to mirror in the fireplace. We have absolutely no idea what is on the other side of the mirror.)
So we finally got around to talking about the fireplace on Sunday, and not only has he been rethinking my fireplace, he's been rethinking my kitchen and bathroom too. The "let's take a weekend to take down the mirrors and put something else up" has turned into "let's gut the kitchen and bathroom and tie the whole house together with different uses of 1"x1" tiles." Of course, he keeps dangling phrases like "designer discount" and "can be done only for a couple thousand dollars" in front of me so I don't keep my focus just on the fireplace. At one point, I think he'd doubled the size of my house and added a whole new wing.
