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[Scribe]

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Yes, especially today.

The basics of my life are, or could be, SO SIMPLE. Add in 'these people' however and lord help me.

 

[prabe]

Small stuff doesnt bother me. Wall paint, counters, flooring, fixtures, etc.. is no biggie. Though, if the entire house is outdated there needs to be a discount for it. In 2020 there was no discount to be found!

This is like an addition bumped out on the back (with an extra bathroom in it) and the kitchen more or less entirely redone (absorbing a breakfast nook into the workspace, removing the double-wall-oven, installing a new double-wall-oven in the absorbed breakfast nook, new cabinets and countertops). The house is from like the late 1960s or early 1970s, and it's had some less-visible practical updates as well.

And we managed a little of a discount by the simple expedient of not mortgaging.

(Ignore the fat man in the driveway ...)

 

[CleverNickName]

I'd even take the expensive flooring over granite counter tops (which I also love) or new cabinets and such. Assuming, like most folks, the budget is going to allow one project at a time.

Oh yeah...I agree with you on the countertops. After looking at so many poorly-flipped houses in the last year, I'm absolutely sick of granite.

It's not one of our buyer concessions, but my spouse and I are going to replace the kitchen's Formica countertops with butcher block at the first opportunity. Granite is just too heavy and expensive (and environmentally unfriendly), and wood just looks better to me. Sure, it's not as durable and we will have to sand-restain-replace them more frequently, but we'd have to replace them three times to equal the cost of custom granite countertops.

 

[payn]

Oh yeah...I agree with you on the countertops. After looking at so many poorly-flipped houses in the last year, I'm absolutely sick of granite.

It's not one of our buyer concessions, but my spouse and I are going to replace the kitchen's Formica countertops with butcher block at the first opportunity. Granite is just too heavy and expensive (and environmentally unfriendly), and wood just looks better to me.

Just make sure to protect those porous surfaces. That wood can trap all kinds of nastiness.

 

[prabe]

Oh yeah...I agree with you on the countertops. After looking at so many poorly-flipped houses in the last year, I'm absolutely sick of granite.

It's not one of our buyer concessions, but my spouse and I are going to replace the kitchen's Formica countertops with butcher block at the first opportunity. Granite is just too heavy and expensive (and environmentally unfriendly), and wood just looks better to me. Sure, it's not as durable and we will have to sand-restain-replace them more frequently, but we'd have to replace them three times to equal the cost of custom granite countertops.

I might go with something manufactured, tile or quartz or recycled, if I were replacing the countertops. That's my preference though--butcher block is perfectly fine, if that's yours.

 

[dragoner]

Yes, especially today.

The basics of my life are, or could be, SO SIMPLE. Add in 'these people' however and lord help me.

One thing about building the mansions, is they were always fairly despicable people. Like how they were going to buy a boutique Chinese baby girl, Filipina slave girl servants, or getting a progress payment, and their client is sitting there, some notorious local drug lord. Always left me feeling dirty.

 

[Gradine]

Well, that's one more country on "I can never travel there" list. Not that there was any doubt, I guess...

 

[dragoner]

I might go with something manufactured, tile or quartz or recycled, if I were replacing the countertops. That's my preference though--butcher block is perfectly fine, if that's yours.

Note on granite or marble, it always breaks, I noticed that at the Biltmore, beautiful countertops, all broken.

 

[payn]

I just finished tearing out my old counter tops and added Quartz.

Edit: I also took off the half moon shelves and painted them black. Was so hard to keep them clean.

 

[prabe]

Note on granite or marble, it always breaks, I noticed that at the Biltmore, beautiful countertops, all broken.

Not arguing, but I don't think I've noticed any breaks in the granite countertops here. They wouldn't be my first choice, but I don't dislike them enough to want them gone, either.