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re: Designing a house with my wife and it’s, uhh, exhausting
Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:00 pm to VermilionTiger
Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:00 pm to VermilionTiger
You should post every option on here with blueprints or pictures and let us all vote on it. Wife can’t argue with that…
Well, she can….and she will. But at least you will know you are in the right when we vote on your option over hers
Well, she can….and she will. But at least you will know you are in the right when we vote on your option over hers
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Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:12 pm to IT_Dawg
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Someone once told me if you want to get a divorce build a house together with your wife
If you were really to build it together, she'd learn a lot.
My husband and I rennovated two properties in NOLA and we bought this farm and lived in the log cabin part while we BOTH did the old house. I'm as smart as most me who do construction, and what I don't have in strength, I make up in thinking. I can hammer roofing shingles with the best of them, I can cut and hand real wood floor boards to my husband to nail them. And I can glaze windows and make window screens...you get the idea. this house IS our effort, and anything that was overlooked, was both our overlooks.
I would have changed the back wall of my upstairs closet to give us a linen closet out in the hall way, but I didn't see the need. So we put storage in the adjacent attic as a retro fit.
Involve her in doing things, she's not dumb because she married you and you chose her with good reasons.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:17 pm to Ingeniero
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Start charging her by the hour
Ahhh, role reversal
Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:21 pm to VermilionTiger
It’s going to get worse.
I built custom homes with my brothers. We had a client whose wife was like this. When she would come through the house she would claim we built something wrong. Of course we built it per plans. We couldn’t get the husband to tell her we were building it right that she just didn’t like how it actually looked from architect design. It was a miserable build. Her husband would harp on us about change orders and how expensive it was getting, but it was his wife’s and his fault.
Worst build out of 100’s we did.
Good luck.
I built custom homes with my brothers. We had a client whose wife was like this. When she would come through the house she would claim we built something wrong. Of course we built it per plans. We couldn’t get the husband to tell her we were building it right that she just didn’t like how it actually looked from architect design. It was a miserable build. Her husband would harp on us about change orders and how expensive it was getting, but it was his wife’s and his fault.
Worst build out of 100’s we did.
Good luck.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 5:23 pm to real turf fan
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Have a picnic with several good friends in the parking lot of an abandoned mfg plant. Lots of chalk. tape. TAPE MEAsures. Have a good meal and then design the house. Limit the exterior walls to the sq. footage for a square house, and beside it a rectangular house. Walk it out. Let her decide wall and window placement. The friends are there to erase walls and keep the math straight.
You do realize this is inviting more women and their opinions into the process, and will make things infinitely more complicated than they already are, right?
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:18 pm to real turf fan
We have built 2. So far so good. This was supposed to be our retirement home, but we don't care much for the neighborhood, so might do it again.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:24 pm to tigeraddict
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Easy fix. Change the scale in the drawing……
Instantly make everything smaller……
Added bonus: everything else will appear bigger in perspective…..
Better yet, just change the scale for the inside rooms she wants larger. That way they double in size but everything else stays the same. Prepare to wipe the architects brain matter off the walls when you hand over the "plans"
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:27 pm to VermilionTiger
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I’m doing the drawing)
Unless you have formal training in house design, don’t do this.
I think you’ll regret not paying a professional.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 6:28 pm to VermilionTiger
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After 5 revisions to the drawing (I’m doing the drawing) we are back where we started, with her not happy with the design.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:01 pm to VermilionTiger
You’re as good as divorced by the time you get to kitchen countertops.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:16 pm to VermilionTiger
You shouldn't build new housing. You'll flood the market and drive down the price of all the existing housing we own.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:34 pm to VermilionTiger
Just wait until you actually build it. Your fun has just begun.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:34 pm to VermilionTiger
Sorry man.....after it’s built she’ll then bitch that she doesn’t like something or wishes she’d had gone in a different direction. Been there still struggling through it.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 7:47 pm to VermilionTiger
We designed our house about 2 decades ago, and I got the silent treatment today when I mentioned a design decision we (she) made back then. 
Please, please, please don't throw me in that silent treatment briar patch
Please, please, please don't throw me in that silent treatment briar patch
Posted on 2/4/23 at 8:25 pm to VermilionTiger
Let he have full reins bro; with the exception of your office/man cave. You will be a lot happier in the end.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 8:59 pm to Polycarp
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Let he have full reins bro; with the exception of your office/man cave. You will be a lot happier in the end.
This is a bad decision. What I call "white lady" taste/design ages very quickly, it's fleeting. That junk will be out of style in 2 years. Go with classic, tame, not going to need to redo approaches. If it's your "forever" house though, do what you want.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 9:00 pm to fareplay
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This man is happily married
His wife is Happily, he’s married!
Posted on 2/4/23 at 9:06 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Cable shows regarding food and home decor turned housewives into world class experts.
The more damaging show on the tube right now, not just for women. But for guys thinking they can watch, then thinking they can do a project.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 9:15 pm to IT_Dawg
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But at least you will know you are in the right
OK, but just try to get a women to admit she is wrong and you are right.
Posted on 2/4/23 at 9:20 pm to VermilionTiger
I’ve built a number of homes for family and friends. Use to flip houses. I worked to two homes with engineers, both thought they knew what was needed. Then I gave them the easier option. They were shocked, that I could figure out the better options, save both a bunch of money.
I also was asked to assist in the construction of a house with a husband and wife, both professors. Then they wanted another professor to assist us, he really just got in the way.
A few of my houses were in the People section of the BTR newspaper.
You’ll do fine. One suggestion, if you can find a plan already drawn with everything you need, go into that house, ask the owners if they would change anything. Sometimes you can make that move.
I also was asked to assist in the construction of a house with a husband and wife, both professors. Then they wanted another professor to assist us, he really just got in the way.
A few of my houses were in the People section of the BTR newspaper.
You’ll do fine. One suggestion, if you can find a plan already drawn with everything you need, go into that house, ask the owners if they would change anything. Sometimes you can make that move.
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