Unsure - Painting our garage door. Currently, it matches our window frames perfectly as well as the small portion of vinyl siding that's right above the garage door. I don't totally love the color. I would like a richer brown instead of a gray-ish tan, but I like that it matches the windows and vinyl. So do I just re-paint it the same color. How do you even find the exact same color 24 years after something was painted? It needs to be painted. It's faded and worn. Any suggestions? Have you ever painted your garage door a new color?
Expensive - Kitchen. Enough said, right? When we moved in we had to get our own fridge, and we also needed a microwave, so we decided to mount a micro-hood over the stove. The previous owners had put in a new dishwasher right before moving, so all of the appliances but the stove were new. The stove is definitely original to the house. I think when the house was built it was probably a top of the line, custom type stove. The counter is built around it, if that makes sense. There is counter on each of the sides as well as behind the stove, and there's a little lip that goes around the front edge of the stove as well.
When we moved in we noticed that under the drip pans it's totally rusty, and the oven also doesn't heat evenly. It isn't self-cleaning. The knobs on the front were tempting for Sarah during her beginning walking stage. Those are all negatives, but the oven isn't technically broken, so we're definitely hanging on and doing just fine as long as it still works because the replacement of this stove will most likely prompt a major kitchen overhaul. I forget all the exact types of stoves like drop in, slide in, and free standing, but I do know that the kind that we currently have is seriously twice as much as a normal stove. However, if we get a normal stove then we would need to remove the back part of the counter in order to slide in the stove all the way back to the back wall. So then why not get new counters? :) Then the stove would be pushed back more than it currently is so the floor would have about two inches that is newly exposed, so you'd need new flooring. And if you're doing a new stove, counter, and flooring, why not go ahead and get a new back splash since we don't like a current one? See what I mean? It'd be a a big kitchen remodel. We really do like our current cabinets and lighting, and they're in good shape. And then we'd thought that if we're getting new counters in the kitchen we might as well put the same counters in the two bathrooms. Sounds fun, right? :)
What would you do regarding the stove when it comes time to replace it?
Anybody else like dreaming about house plans? Kinda fun. :)
