Making myself crazy

StinkerBell · July 24, 2008, 12:21:00 PM

I am making myself crazy. We have our pole barn up with living space on the second floor. All the windows are in place and now I am doing up many floor plans. I can't make my mind up. My mind was made up (I thought) but I just can't seem to find the one plan that makes me go aha thats it!

ScottA · July 24, 2008, 12:57:35 PM

Why not just leave it all open except for the bath and use movable screens for walls? Would give you a lot of fleability for using the space.

July 24, 2008, 01:04:03 PM

I have been watching HGTV. They get all that work and style done in 30 minutes!

Homegrown Tomatoes · July 24, 2008, 02:01:01 PM

Aw Stink, don't watch those shows... they breed discontentment!

desdawg · July 24, 2008, 02:21:44 PM

Quote from: StinkerBell on July 24, 2008, 01:04:03 PM
I have been watching HGTV. They get all that work and style done in 30 minutes!

That is only 30 minutes of camera time. You don't get to see the rest. I don't have to worry about driving myself crazy. I came that way from the factory. If you are looking for the perfect plan it doesn't exist and that will make you crazy. I used to be afflicted with perfectionism now I have hatchetassitosis.

July 24, 2008, 03:02:54 PM

Stink if you do that then what will your friends have to do. I always heard that your first impression or idea is usually the best. You know what you want just tweak it a little and move on.

StinkerBell · July 24, 2008, 04:25:50 PM

I think my real problem is we are at a stand still until we get some $$ gathered up. I feel idle.

muldoon · July 24, 2008, 04:43:34 PM

I do understand where your coming from on wanting to get it right, but you cant put off moving forward forever while you overthink it to death. I personally find that if I consider life (or a floorplan in this case) as a work in progress I can always be working and moving toward goals without ever actually being finished. It takes a lot of the stress out of getting there.

Why dont the people on hgtv ever injure themselves? I never see them with an icepack or heat pad....

desdawg · July 24, 2008, 05:24:20 PM

They always wear their safety glasses and that throws a shield around the entire body.

July 24, 2008, 10:52:36 PM

Again, Stink?

Stink -- anything you can do that doesn't take money --- ? hmm

StinkerBell · July 25, 2008, 12:02:52 AM

This week at my home here (not the home we are building) I have replaced the front door. I have installed and stained it. I have repainted the entry. I have climb onto the roof and scraped the moss off it and put some tide powder soap on it with bleach (this kills and moss I may have missed). I have started pruning a tree that needs pruning. During all this I have redone the floor plan about a dozen times in my head and also assembled the weekly grocery list.

At times I feel like I have one foot nailed down to the ground and I am running in circles.

glenn kangiser · July 25, 2008, 12:06:28 AM

Any pictures? hmm

ScottA · July 25, 2008, 08:50:19 AM

CWhite · July 25, 2008, 09:45:36 AM

I built a "perfect house" about 30 years ago...designed every inch, built it with my x-husband (read: wrong-husband), and paid as we went, and used a lot of recycled materials with a total cost of $10,000.00. It was paid for, on 18 acres of land when we broke up.

Now, I've built another "perfect house". It doesn't resemble the old one much at all except for having a lot of wood inside and out, and living porches around it. The "right husband" was much more important than the floor plan.

Just a thought.
Christina

July 25, 2008, 10:07:14 AM

I do like my "Current" Husband.

glenn kangiser · July 25, 2008, 10:21:28 AM

hmm Must be some electricity there.

StinkerBell · July 25, 2008, 10:28:08 AM

Redoverfarm · July 25, 2008, 10:51:15 AM

Christina before you built the perfect house. Now you built the perfect "home". There is a difference.