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February 24th, 2016
All I wanted was a new color of paint in my living/dining room. Which lead to having all of the trim throughout the entire house painted white. Which lead to replacing the old, ugly doorknobs on the closet doors, bathroom door and bedroom doors. Which lead to replacing the ugly hinges on the doors. Why not replace the old light switches and outlets for modern looking, white ones?
Picking out the paint for the room took days on end and the purchase of $14 worth of sample paint. I picked out new doorknobs and ordered those online. I ordered the new hinges (chrome!) online. Ordered all the switches, receptacles and covers online. And don’t forget a new cover for the cable and phone outlets since they are not white.
My son came over to help me out because the strike plates for the doors weren’t the same shape as the old ones and he had to cut out for the new ones. While he was working on that, I was removing the old doorknobs. We then made an attempt to install one of the new doorknobs. It just so happens that the size of the hole necessary for a standard doorknob has changed since my house was built in 1971! You can no longer buy a doorknob to fit in a 1 7/8” bore. The standard bore for a doorknob now is 2 1/8”. That meant the holes on every one of the doors had to be re-drilled.
I found this nice, young man to come re-drill the doors. Since I’m having someone who can do any number of home maintenance jobs come to the house, I might as well have him replace the faucet in the laundry room that has been broken for three years. He might as well also fix the water to the back yard since I had no water in the back yard all last summer because the knob to turn the water on fell apart. And why not have him do the wiring for the new switches. I could do it myself but he could do it much faster and efficient.
Then there is the matter of the pillows on the couch not looking great with the new paint color. Now I am shopping for fabric to cover the pillows that I have. Those old curtains need to go also. More fabric shopping!
What about wall décor? I got sick of the shelves hanging in the dining room so now I have to do something on that wall and it is a pretty long wall. I found a clock that comes in parts and sticks to the wall so you can make it as large as you want. Ordered that online as well!
So you see what I’m saying? A decision to paint the living/dining room has snowballed into spending quite a bit more money than a couple gallons of paint. Which reminds me, I really don’t like the style of my dining room table and chairs anymore!! And on it goes – my snowball has grown into the abominable snowman.
