05 March, 2006
DIY: Blessing or Nightmare
Today, Peaches and I put in a new faucet, from IKEA, in our kitchen that promised to be a 1-2 hour project. It took four trips to Home Depot, ten hours, and much drama. We did expand the project to include installing an under the sink water filter that has it’s own spout where the sprayer (that never worked) used to live. Also contained in that ten hours were two trips to the Pet Smart for our dog's grooming. While at Home Depot on trip number two, we had the final 3 boards cut for the floor in the baby’s/spare room. We laid that two months ago but did not finish because we needed to cut the boards lengthwise to fit the final small space. And we bought the trim to go around the new floor. So it wasn’t like we were working on plumbing the entire time but lord, that faucet installation went on for fricking ever. But, the new faucet and under the sink water filter looks good!
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The fact that it's done and you guys are still together is monumental. I always say that the hubby and I will end up divorced over IKEA furniture assembly!! We just don't work well together on projects like that (some of us are PATIENT and READ the INSTRUCTIONS, while other simply DON'T!!). The amount of swearing is obscene - remind me to tell you the story of putting up chair rail mouldings in the nursery when I was pregnant! (it's amzing that their first words weren't 4 letter ones!)
You are so right! IKEA furniture assembly, on things more intricate than a table, are so hard and infuriating. Peaches and I do work well together usually but over the past year, I have little to no patience with DIY going very wrong.
Good job, you guys are superstars. I have to tell you about our nightmare of buying blinds at home depot when we moved to the place we are now. Cut to size? Mmmmmmm... not so much.
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