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Originally Posted by Deadbug  ...
The other thing that cracked me up is the linoleum flooring (now this was more circa 1988 or so). They ran out of the peel n stick vinyl tiles. Instead of spending $10 for another box, they glued a piece of baseboard to the floor.
I'm contemplating finding out where they live now, walk into their garage, take all their tools away, look them dead in the eye and say "NO! You can't have these!" |
ROFL...! I hear ya! The owners before us 'remodeled' this place, too. Instead of crown molding in the hallway, we have chair rail...I kid you not!...around the ceiling! DH said a similar thing...used a couple'a different words, tho...lol
Plus they didn't quite have enough moding to go around the bathroom door and mitre one of the 45 corners properly...so there was 1 45 corner and 1 blunt cut with a gap in between.
Its' worse because the house was built in 54 by a builder...it was his personal family home. Everything craftmanship wise that he did is PERFECT! The previous owner was buying the house from her boss who owned the company...she was his accountant and "like a daughter to him" which was why he didn't prosecute her for embezzeling $100K, discovered by the tax accountant/real estate agent who sold me the house. When she was about to get caught, she ripped out the Jennaire appliances she'd bought, fled to TX, rented the house out, and was collecting rent but not paying the mortgage.
The house roof underlayment is tongue and groove cedar, the outer walls/siding underlayment is the same, the walls and ceilings also tongue and groove...no paneling. The house was made out of yellow pine and is so solid you have to drill to mount anything on supporting structure since you cannot hammer into it. We caught flack from an ins co once...the house was a 'risk' to insure. How's that, I wondered...it withstood every hurricane, storm, tornado, wind...whatever since '54. We were living here when FL got 4 hurricanes in one season...the 100-yr-old granddaddy oaks we wanted the lot for protected the house so well not a single shingle was lifted. Risk...?
Of course, there is so much shade we must let the weeds go to seed to have anything green out there...lol