#47: How Do You Know If It is Your “Forever House”?
What happens when you are not sure if your current house is your long-term house? And if it is not, how do you know when to stop improving it? We are tackling those two BIG questions, including how the answers affected our own renovating decisions. Also, fairly soon after we shared our mostly-wrapped up master bedroom on our journal, someone tossed a wrench into the room. A big striking wrench that snowballed into a bunch of other changes – all of which were totally free. Plus, we talk about what is making our weekday mornings less stressful, and the surprising thing that could lower your home’s property value.
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What is New
- Above is a look at the new rug in our master bedroom. We are planning to take a few more photos and write up a journal post that outlines everything that came in and went out – hopefully by tomorrow!
- Back in Episode #45 we first mentioned storing items by function, including the Sharpie in our lunch-prep drawer.
- I also mentioned that I have strayed from bulk preparing smoothies (originally described way back in Episode #3). We are still having our green smoothies every morning, I simply do not portion everything out beforehand into little baggies.
- Here are the reusable Sistema containers that we use for our daughter’s lunches – either this side-by-side size or this stacked size, and these cups.
What is Not
- Here is the HAR.com article that lists 9 Surprising Things That Add Value To Your Home
Listener Question
- If you wanna hear our old (like 2009 old!) response to the “Is this your forever home?” question, simply skip ahead to 5:45 in the Blogiversary Q&A video above.
- And if you are not familiar with our first house or our second house, I linked those to their respective house tour pages.
We are Digging
- Above you can see two of the “fairly” backup toilet paper holders that we have in our half bath, including the basket on the floor and the glass vessel on the tank.
- And while that basket is no longer for sale, here are some other options for anyone who is looking to keep guests from panicking and have extra rolls at arm’s reach: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7
- Here is Grand Designs on Netflix for any fellow Americans who want to see what we have been missing out on in Britain all these years!
- There are also several episodes on YouTube if you want to take a look that way. You can also get a sense of it from this funny Buzzfeed UK rundown.
Psst- Looking for something we have dug in a past episode, but do not remember which show notes to click into? Well, here is a master list of everything we have been digging from all of our past episodes.
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