All to go is vinyl flooring to be laid and sort out tiles around the bath (long term job).
Posted on 05/09/2008 5:32:54 PM PDT by snugs
Does your home reflect your single status including your attitudes towards it or are they formed from childhood and how your parents home was like.
Is your home functional, decorative, needs attention and somewhat tired or well maintained and modern? If you had a partner do you think it would be different?
Daveloneranger gave a few single spins on the topic.
Would a guy who can “DIY” be somehow more attractive to a lady?
If he was not a pratical person either around the house or with cars/bikes or other machines would that make him somehow less attractive, appealing or at least “marketable”?
On the otherhand does women doing DIY stuff etc more or less appealing to men?
What got me to think about this subject was that we had an insurance claim due to a roof leak part of the claim covered redecoration to the bathroom and painting/wall papering one of the bedrooms and papering landing, drop and hallway. This led me to start the painting and thinking about flooring upstairs and in the hallway that needed to be done. This kicked started me whereas before I was quite content to live in the tired look of the home.
This had happened after mum became too old to do the DIY dad as long as things function is not too worried about it looking modern and prestine and as for matching well he would never notice. I am very similar in some ways and go for function above matching and look but this insurance claim gave me the opportunity to actually have a few areas of the house that do match and are more modern.
I would surmise for me I am quite happy to live in tired but functional house but if kicked started can enjoy and want something better and probably if I had a partner who was into the DIY etc would be more into it.
All to go is vinyl flooring to be laid and sort out tiles around the bath (long term job).
Mum on the other hand was not only the traditional women of liking things to match etc though because of money constraints furniture never matched in our household but decor such as paint, wallpapering and lampshades etc she always tried to budget allowing. She also was the practical one as dad can just about use a hammer but would not have a clue on actually how to put a shelf up prepare a wall for wall papering etc. My mum did the wiring of the plugs, painting, wall papering and also the traditional things such as the cooking and cleaning.
Need some rose advice here for little Bills
Hmmmm, well let's test this theory...
We here in America have a show called "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", in which a team of builders and designers rebuild and redesign homes for families in need, often from the ground up.
The head honcho is a guy named Ty Pennington, who looks something like this:
Now, from what I can tell, Ty is a fairly knowledgable carpenter, but some women (some of them who I know personally) like to see him without his shirt on--which you can google search on your own time.
At any rate, I think in the U.S. we have at least 3 or 4 entire television channels solely devoted to DIY and home improvement. I can only think it would help in my case, but I draw the line at a certain point. If it has anything to do with major repairs (plumbing, electrical work, etc.), I'm going to let a professional do the work...it's a simple allocation of resources if you think about it.
I learned to do a lot when I was single. It was a challenge.
Came in handy when I married my FReeper husband. We just bought a house and are redoing EVERYTHING.
We can now install level cabinets, lay engineered hardword floors and install appliances.
I had about 60+ rose bushes of different varieties...which I purchased from SpringHill Nurseries....(find them on the web) All of them were beautiful. My favorite was a hedge rose (bright red) which I lined my drive with. :)
Still have yet to figure out how to deal with horribly crooked bulkheads and ceilings though babe...
My decorating style is totally different from anyone in my family. Kind of severe, limited decoration, modern, functional, somewhat well-maintained. My family are addicted to clutter. If there's space on the wall there must be something hanging there, if there's an empty shelf there must be something sitting there! Not sure how a home would reflect an attitude towards my single status...it's decorated how I like, with no input from someone else? If my home would look different would depend on the person I was with considering the description above as it's not decorated in a necessarily "girly" way.
One of our cable channels has been showing the week or so wall to wall extreme makeover from the States. There is also a UK version as well.
My friend Phil often does everything DIY wise and actually likes to do his own plumbing and most of the electrical work, though with new regs it is becoming more difficult to do some of these things yourself especially if you may want to sell your property in the new future because you need certain certificates to say that they were done by a professional not that the professional always does it better but it is just a legal technicality. I know in many ways I much prefer Phil to do something than a so called expert who often cuts corners and uses cheaper materials.
Sounds good I wish I was a bit more practical I can do certain amount of painting but I am no good with heights so wall papering or painting a ceiling is out and also only being 5’2” also limits certain tasks.
what a neat idea for a thread Eleanor! Glad you & others have kept the doors open for participation. Some new & some familiar (wont say old) screennames!
Rocky & Hoody.. great to see you. wondering how you have been.
I am attracted to men who can fix things/problem solve etc. My dad was extremely handy with projects etc. I dont think every man is gifted with DIY skills any more than every woman is skilled with cooking/domestic skills.
crashing early. Life has been complicated the past.. well, a LONG time..
Neither does having a ladder unless you have a helper! lol
4 years as a widower .... if by some miracle my wife came back to life and walked in the door ... she'd turn around and get back in the elevator ... top floor.
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