Since I met Lauren, my media consumption habits have changed a bit. I'm watching a good deal of HGTV, which I wouldn't normally watch.
All these home improvement projects they do on shows like "Design on a Dime" and such never seem to run into any snags. You see a bunch of homeowners and designers happily spackling away and never running into a sagging wall where the tops of the screws have popped the spackle off. You never see corners that aren't perfectly square, caulk lines that aren't absolutely perfect or p-traps that don't line up perfectly with sink drains.
The closest thing I ever saw to a snag was when someone drilled a hole for a light fixture with a hole saw and hit a floor joist. And, of course, they had all the tools at the ready to immediately fix it and try something else.
This is what they don't show you. And you end up making trip after trip to Home Depot because you need a few extra drywall screws to fix a bad seam, or because the molding corner pieces you bought apparently don't have a mounting mechanism of any kind.
It always goes nice and smoothly on TV, and it almost never does in real life.
Posted by THespos at June 26, 2006 11:55 AM | TrackBackThe all to frequent trips to "Billy Blake's" in the late 60's and 70's, "Pergament's" in the 70's and 80's are evidence of the homeowner mistakes we all made and continue to make in the "real world". TV would do a great service if they had a program showing the new "Mr. Fixit" homeowner in action in this "real world". eg. the many trips one had to make to buy additional wood moulding because "Mr. Fixit" cut it at the wrong angle or just a little too short. I think the curse words that followed would be accepted vernacular on TV now. Yes, I remember it well.
Dad
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