In For the Home Talk 1368966099.807 Thanks everyone for your posts. DH decided we're not going to allow him to stay at our house. We're buying NEW beds, had our furniture NEWLY upholstered, NEW appliances, NEW bathrooms . . . WE want to be the first ones to use our new stuff! Someone also mentioned how would I know what other workers would be using our house, and that thought never occured to me. So, the answer is going to be NO. BTW: I"m not getting any break on the work he's doing either - had to borrow from our retirement fund after we ran out of insurance money. He was not too sympathetic. Continue Reading Last Reply by YorkieonmyPillow 1368970369.05 | Started by seaswirl in For the Home Talk As many of you know, our shore house was wrecked by Hurricane Sandy. We hired a great contractor who really kept us on target and kept the job moving. He's a nice guy and we like him. Well, he bought another wrecked house on our street for an investment. He'll be working on it this summer and he asked if he could stay at our house Mon - Fri while working on his house. I'm definitely going to charge him, but I don't know how much. Any ideas out there? Continue Reading In For the Home Talk 1365771621.707 Just a side note: My estimates sound high, but we're talking approx 34 yards of fabric. That's a big ticket right there! Continue Reading Last Reply by bigsister 1365937561.317 | Started by seaswirl in For the Home Talk The interior of our shore home was wrecked in Hurricane Sandy. However, our 20-year old living room furniture was spared. It’s a wood frame set with no upholstery, just cushions. The cushions have needed to be replaced for a few years, but the wood part is perfect (needs to be Murphy’s oil soaped). My dilemma is this: We’ve gotten estimates for new covers (not the foam part because that’s OK) ranging from $1900 to $3500. The last estimate was $2580 and we really liked the fabric that went with that estimate. We could get a new Broyhill set for $2300. We like th... Continue Reading In Fashion Talk 1363488649.46 I finally went all out and was organizing our Christmas decorations in Rubbermaid tubs, and I found a gift card to our favorite restaurant . . . EXPIRED. Continue Reading Started by seaswirl in For the Home Talk 1363093616.65 We're thinking of buying a Pallister 4-piece leather living room set. If you have a Pallister leather set, please let me know if you like it or not. Thanks in advance. Continue Reading In For the Home Talk 1360266665.477 On 2/7/2013 vermint said: Don't have it (yet), but I have seen/handled samples and it's beautiful! I really want to do my master bath floor with this stuff. I'm wondering, though...in your case, would tile survive any better? The setting bed/subfloor/grout would be ruined in another flood, and would have to be replaced anyway. My DH is an architect, and I just asked him this for confirmation. The individual tiles might survive but the floor itself would have to be redone, and the tile re-laid. We'd be installing it on a concrete slab. We're done with wood floors FOREVER! The clean up from ... Continue Reading Last Reply by upsidedown 1360373887.65 | Started by seaswirl in For the Home Talk We're collecting ideas to put our shore house back together after getting wrecked in Hurricane Sandy. We want to do the whole house (ranch house) in tile because we think that will survive the NEXT flood. I saw porcelain tile that looks like wood. Does anyone have this in their home? Your thoughts? Continue Reading
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