June 26, 2006

Why we're doing this blog

Omer:

Here is why I’m writing this blog:

Contractor: Hmmmm…Looks like you’ll need a johnson rod inserted here…and a jigsaw fixture over here…maybe a reinforcing vanilla twist here…

Me: Um…okay.

Contractor: Great – that’ll be $500K

Me: (Weeping softly)

Before everyone gets their johnson rods in a bunch – I’m not implying contractors are crooks. In fact, the architects and contractor we are using have sterling reputations – the architects travel to a small village every spare moment they have to teach cross-eyed, wheelchair bound lemurs the difference between Italianate and Federal styles, while our contractor traipses around every evening in a cape – presumably to fight crime, though that’s not entirely clear…

Fact is, I can barely change a light bulb without setting the house on fire – and yet, Amy and yours truly are about to embark on a major gut renovation of a brownstone. So…I need your help. Be honest and blunt – I already know I have no taste or ability, so I can take it. I promise that I will take all comments seriously – except my own.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read our blog and provide feedback – it is sincerely appreciated!

Now – let the adventure nightmare begin!

Amy:

I’m writing the blog for a couple of reasons. First of all, I talk way too much about what’s going on in my private life. This way, if anyone wants to know what’s going on with the house they can just go to the blog, and I can shut up about it. Second, as Omer mentioned, we don’t know what we’re doing. Luckily, we’ve hired good people so that we don’t have to know anything. But to just blindly let them do whatever it is they do would be dumb. This way we’ve got someone to bounce things off of.

I’m sure I’ll regret doing this blog after I post a paint color choice and your comments leave me in tears, but here we go anyway.

About six weeks ago we bought a four-story brownstone. The renovation will be going on all around us. With two small children, it should be extra fun.

You can see from the picture why we call it the Flintstone house. Eventually, those stones will have to go. I do think we have the coolest front doors I’ve ever seen, though.

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