Making a House a Home
Being a homeowner is scary, especially as a single person. I have moments when I look around and I realize that I did this all by myself. From painting the walls to purchasing furniture to installing wallpaper. I did this by myself. It is a proud feeling, but also a scary feeling especially when it comes to spending money on things that are needed.
I am currently working on my kitchen. I’m done with it but, I need to redo something because I didn’t prepare it before installation so I have to redo it. Not trying to give it away because I am filming the process. There was one thing that I will say, and a stripped screw is the most annoying thing I ever dealt with. I tried everything to get it out but what ended up working for me was a special pair of pliers and that did the trick. Good ole Amazon to the rescue! Now all my knobs are done.
Then the next problem happens. While my family was over last Saturday we heard a chirp from one of the smoke detectors and I figured out it was the one in my front bedroom. So I pulled out the big step stool and proceeded to charge the battery. After doing that I get down and it chirped again. After some investigating, I found out that I will need to replace it. Now, normally you can just take it off the ceiling and put a new one up but not these. They are hard-wired in and I believe they have to be for my building's system for the fire alarm. So of course I got to worry because that is something I do not know how to do and electrical is not my speed. Now I’ll put furniture together or paint or hang up a large mirror, but electrical no sir! That is not my speed and will never be. Thank goodness my former co-worker said that he can help me out on this and it won’t cost me a lot of money. Now that was a stress that I can take off my mind.
I know issues will come up and I have to be prepared for them. I had this big plan to have 3 spaces done by the end of the first quarter and now I don’t think it’s going to happen due to the mishaps, and changes, but I’m not upset about it at all. The quarter is almost over and I was looking forward to the next big project and that was making the place into somewhat of a smart home. That is still happening but I might have to push something back for a minute. I think I’m going to start playing the lottery so I don’t feel as stressed or just scale back my big plans and make them more manageable……NAHHHHHH!!!!!