In any sort of face lift / remodel / upgrade of a home, one has to draw a line somewhere. Otherwise, you can easily invest more than you will ever recover.
Yes, I definitely need to draw a line, but gauging how much I'll recover isn't a factor. I'm in the house I will die in, and at that point my daughter gets it, and must keep it in the family.
You should've heard some of the conversations I had with telemarketers, before I quit answering unknown calls. They're persistent little devils!
They'd be trying to sell [fill in the blank: solar panels, remodeling, adding a room, other big projects], and their biggest selling point was "it'll add so much to the value of your home!" Yeah, right.
I'd explain that
no one would buy THIS [small, California-style, unimposing] house in order to LIVE in it. In Arcadia, houses like mine are &$#*!@)
bulldozed the day after the title transfer is complete. So adding a room wouldn't do anything but cost me money! [If I intended to sell.]
Your bath with new fixtures will look sharp. It's not like the project can't be revisited at some point. A little here and a little there over time is the ticket. Steady wins the race.
Definitely. My imagination ran wild; I'm glad my better judgment kicked in. And you're right, the bathroom will look good with its new fixtures--and fresh paint. We can always do more later.
I've lived in my old house for so many years that I'm now remodeling my previous remodels.
Yes, but it's nice, right? I mean, it's your
home, and it has been for so long you're remodeling its remodels! Besides, you're so handy, I'll bet you get a lot of satisfaction out of doing the work yourself. Much like learning how to repair cars, remodeling is something I never got around to.
By the way, I know exactly what sparked my over-zealous ideas: looking at pictures of my house in Dallas. Specifically, the beautiful porcelain pedestal sink, matching toilet, ceramic tile floor, and other fixtures I had replaced when renovating its master bath. I think I got confused...and thought I still had the income that went along with that. *SMH*