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Title: Making myself crazy
Post by: StinkerBell on 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!
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: ScottA on 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.
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: 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!
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: Homegrown Tomatoes on July 24, 2008, 02:01:01 PM
Aw Stink, don't watch those shows... they breed discontentment!
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: desdawg on 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.
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: Redoverfarm on 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.
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: StinkerBell on 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.
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: muldoon on 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.... 
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: desdawg on July 24, 2008, 05:24:20 PM
They always wear their safety glasses and that throws a shield around the entire body.
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: glenn kangiser on July 24, 2008, 10:52:36 PM
Again, Stink?

Stink -- anything you can do that doesn't take money --- ? hmm
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: StinkerBell on 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.
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: glenn kangiser on July 25, 2008, 12:06:28 AM
Any pictures? hmm
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: ScottA on July 25, 2008, 08:50:19 AM
 rofl
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: CWhite on 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
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: StinkerBell on July 25, 2008, 10:07:14 AM
I do like my "Current" Husband.




heh
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: glenn kangiser on July 25, 2008, 10:21:28 AM
hmm Must be some electricity there.
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: StinkerBell on July 25, 2008, 10:28:08 AM
 :P
Title: Re: Making myself crazy
Post by: Redoverfarm on July 25, 2008, 10:51:15 AM
Christina before you built the perfect house.  Now you built the perfect "home".  There is a difference.