I don't like to move. That's pretty much just a plain fact of life for me. I have lived for the last 13 years in an older home that my husband thought would be fun since it has "character" but that just means that it needs to be remodeled. Don't let yourself be fooled! We have spent the entire time fixing one thing or another and trying to get it to a nice place. When we moved into our first home it was small and simple, but it was new construction. With that however, it meant that we had to put in the yard, fence, landscaping, sprinkler system and finish the basement. We also chose to build the garage ourselves as well because it gave us a chance to make it larger for less cost. It was a lot of work, true, but where we spent the majority of our time was finished the way we liked it and when we did a project we just started it and then it was done. With this house it has been, first tear it apart, clean up the mess, fix what we found that we didn't know we were going to have to fix and then finish the original project. When we moved in I saw all of that - my husband saw a finished basement, landscaping, sprinklers and fence that already existed. In his mind it was just cosmetic issues and I would "have fun" painting and doing those things.
