It's finally set in stone' my sister is going to have a baby. I really didn't think I'd ever see it happen honestly. I'm still shocked that in a few months she'll be a mother and I'll actually be an uncle. For a baby shower present my younger sister and I came to the decision to split the cost of nice nursery furniture sets. Our problem though was that my sister and her husband can't really afford to move out yet and so they will be moving into the basement apartment until the can afford something better. Since the basement is in shambles I thought it would be a nice gesture to remodel it myself to make it a pleasant place for a new family to exist.
My family is wrought with handymen and carpenters. My granddad was an upholsterer and my father constructs his own table furniture on his time off. Clearly it would only be natural move for me to assume these skills and talents on my own. I figured it would be a pleasant way to prove how good of a brother I am and how much I care about my family.
I figured if I skipped going through the professionals and doing it myself we'd be able to get those nursery furniture sets in there in no time. All I had to do was to take down the old wall paneling, put up new Sheetrock and paint it, put down a new linoleum floor after taking out the old one, then fit the new cabinets in. It really should've been a piece of cake.
Of course nothing is as easy as it looks on paper. I couldn't get my friend to help me on my time and everything went wrong. I couldn't get the walls up flush, I cut my hand taking up the old floor and the new cabinets didn't even fit in through the doorway which I had to "widen" with a hammer and a crowbar.
Since the remodeling debacle went so bad we as a family decided to put off putting the new furniture in there for the baby. Clearly we wound up finding professionals to complete the job right. If your sister is ever having a child, do yourself a massive favor and just buy her a gift. Don't offer an entire remodeling job.
My family is wrought with handymen and carpenters. My granddad was an upholsterer and my father constructs his own table furniture on his time off. Clearly it would only be natural move for me to assume these skills and talents on my own. I figured it would be a pleasant way to prove how good of a brother I am and how much I care about my family.
I figured if I skipped going through the professionals and doing it myself we'd be able to get those nursery furniture sets in there in no time. All I had to do was to take down the old wall paneling, put up new Sheetrock and paint it, put down a new linoleum floor after taking out the old one, then fit the new cabinets in. It really should've been a piece of cake.
Of course nothing is as easy as it looks on paper. I couldn't get my friend to help me on my time and everything went wrong. I couldn't get the walls up flush, I cut my hand taking up the old floor and the new cabinets didn't even fit in through the doorway which I had to "widen" with a hammer and a crowbar.
Since the remodeling debacle went so bad we as a family decided to put off putting the new furniture in there for the baby. Clearly we wound up finding professionals to complete the job right. If your sister is ever having a child, do yourself a massive favor and just buy her a gift. Don't offer an entire remodeling job.
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