Rethink Your Home When Life Presses Restart
A number of years ago, before the pandemic began, my life took a major u-turn. Death took away a number of important people in my life, but left me with a house that was a disaster. It was bought as a fixer-upper, but never got fixed up. And I ended up with piles and piles of stuff that I inherited from a bunch of different sources all at one time. There are a lot of people who might just sit on the floor and cry. I decided to rebuild, reorganize and rethink...everything. They say after great loss to not make a whole lot of changes at one time. I put everything into storage and gutted my house. I changed my job. I began rethinking what I liked and didn't like. I redesigned my house first. Working with a contractor, I created the floor plan. Then I came up with the interior design -- including paint colors, furniture layout, tile, flooring, rugs, art and more. I reused much of what I had. I found a woodcrafter and he helped me alter some furniture from my grandmother. He also helpe...