S1:E15 Design Mistakes in Our Own Homes

You hear us talk about getting things right in our client's home, well we thought it was time to discuss what we got wrong in our own homes and how we would do instead!  Sometimes, we can be our worst client!

Jeremy's Primary Bathroom

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Chapters

• 2:13 Jeremy's Primary Bath Mistake
• 6:57 Stuart's Lake House Flip Flop
• 10:03 Dwayne's Great Room Blender Problem
• 12:43 Country Ham Flooring
• 17:47 Stuart's Carpet
• 22:05 Dwayne's Back Porch
• 25:49 Sentimental Gifts
• 31:30 Jeremy's Kitchen Faucet
• 33:35 Stuart's Switch
• 36:46 Dwayne's Tub Surround

Transcript

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Oh. God. Edit that portion. Oh. Oh. say that out loud. I wouldn't say that out loud. Yes, you would say that out loud. You say everything out loud. You just, he just said it, but it will be edited because I can not put that in the podcast. Oh Lord. All right. So, um, for today's episode. I thought, we would discuss, somebody asked me there, they, what in your house have you done that you wish you would have done differently? And I thought, Oh yeah. And I immediately, I was like, bam, I got it. Um, because you know, we talked about knowing things and getting everything right. And, you know, we make some mistakes too. There weren't big ones, but you know, just going back, at least mine weren't. Um, so I thought it'd be interesting to talk about today, by the way, I have also texted back with the person about the leopard print, just letting them know that we had discussed it in last week's podcast. And she said, yes, I listened to this morning while I was walking. Cause I'm much more in the, limited use. So no leopard paint. So she didn't have her leopard thong on? No. I guess. Thought she didn't mention it. Will you say her first name to us? So she'll listening next to me. Don't. No, they don't. They don't have her. But you don't know that? No. No. Well, we're gonna call her Erica. Okay. Erica is a leopard. Yeah. Limited. Limited. Limited. Leo, by the way, Stuart, I have already apologized to Duane this morning because you met here. Oh. Oh, well, you know, cause my upper back is just screwed up. I'm on muscle relaxers, but think I'm going to have to Do that with some cocktails too, to see if that's a good, yeah. I don't know if that's a good combination. I'm telling you, go and get that dry neatly. I'm going in again tomorrow. It has helped so much in just one, one time. So. Okay. Me, prod me, whatever I gotta do to get rid of this. Oh, they, they poke it. So, okay. So I'll go first and, how about we'll just do like round table. Just do like, well, I'll do one. Then we'll just somebody go to the next The first thing that I wish we would have done differently. in the hour. House was one of the is in our primary bathroom, of which I love. I love the look of it, I love the style of it. I love all the finishes. I'll post the link down below something we did. How many years ago did you do that? Well, see, we bought the house in 2014, and we said we were gonna live in the house for two years before we renovated the primary. We, we lasted three weeks, Well, we'd already been doing work at the house and we had mentioned it to our contractors before that. And so they were just like, yeah, we can get that done. It's fine. so that's what, 10 years ago? Um, so there'll be a link down in the show notes where people can see, it. But the thing that we, we, it's, it's beautiful. It's like, you know, white and gray tile with brass accents, in the tile and, it's very neutral, very mean, clean. Um, We thought it out. We put the, um, uh, what's it called? The, the little handle where you turn the water on. is it called? The handle. I don't know. The words are hard for me today. Um, and there's just one piece of glass. You walk into the shower, but the valve to turn the water on is on the left. So you can turn the water on and not get wet. And then when you're ready, you can actually step in underneath of, the rainfall, showerhead, which, which love, but two niches in. Okay. I had enough room for all the soaps and the accoutrement that goes in there. The one thing we didn't do, cause I thought that I didn't need it was a shower wand. And if I could go back, I would add a shower wand because it would make cleaning that damn thing so much easier. Yeah. Cause I just, I, people had said, oh, you'll want one. I thought I've never had one my entire life. I didn't think I would need it. And now I'm like, Lord. I'm ready to bust the thing out and just push our one in just to do it. Well, the compliment is again, 10 years old. for me, the reference to your bathroom is, is absolutely as rich and layered and vintage, but updated in Thomas and classic today. As when you did it 10 years ago, you really hit a home run with it. A really, it's well done. Very well done. Well, we tried to do it like timeless. So you, you couldn't tell when it had been done. I mean, it has gray walls. So somebody might say, oh, I know when it was going to go to the gray walls, but I'm like, I've always liked gray. So back off a notch. Yeah, no grays. Gray's been around forever. It's just not right. I don't know what to tell you. No, and it's, and it's a light gray. And I know people are going to want to know what color it is. It's repose gray. Um, cause it's just like the perfect neutral, soft white gray that has a little bit of brown in it, but it's mostly gray and it works real well with marble and all that. But yeah, shower wand. How silly is that? And, but not at all. Do y'all have them? It's an, isn't your, isn't your closet behind that wall? yes. Go through your closet and knock a hole in there, but when you don't know, listen, there's, we're probably, we're going to probably have to redo the show anyway, because there's, um, there's a couple of issues, is it leaking or anything? But one thing I'm learning is, If, uh, if the bathroom is going to get screwed up, it's because somebody don't know how to put a, tile shower in, because I swear, a third of them, they get it wrong. They just don't know what they're doing. So, what you just said is not a surprise. Isn't that crazy? Well, and after 10 years. Settle and move. I, and that's the thing, I think that,'cause you know, it's an older home and it started to settle and I know they put the membrane in the waterproof proofing membrane. And so like, there's not, but it's just like, it's, it's not, uh, it's not held up like I would've hoped it to. So we'll fix it. And I probably won't change anything. I'll go back in, put the exact same thing in it just'cause I love it that much, so. Right. But with a wand. Yeah, that's painful. That's like buying a hot water heater. It's like, what'd you change? Um, well it just was leaking. I had to just rip it out to put it back. So that kind of sucks, I have to admit. So there we go. All right. There's my first one. What about, you joining or Stewart, what was, what would you, well, I mean, and I know and I know yours is hard. Your is perfect. I know yours is hard because you're moving into a new house, but you can also have a old house. Um, no, I won't. I can always bitterness in that one bitterness than that one. We all know, and those who don't know, you don't know. Yeah, and you don't know. I can talk about a, different house. How about that? Yeah. How about the lake house? No, yeah, that's what, yeah, that's not, go ahead. Stewart, we want to hear about your mistakes. There's so many, so go. I mean, one of'em was starting a business with you, but we only need to get in so I do have a, a small, lakehouse that I'll love. I love what it sets. I love what it looks at I odd thing. What I wish I would've done different was reversed it, meaning. It is a, because of the way the land is, it is basically a split level, you know, where there's a big living room and, and dining room and kitchen and powder room and screened in porch on the top. And then there are two bedrooms and two bathrooms and some storage on the bottom. And you know, it all faces the water. However, living in it, um, having guests in it that, you know, they're guests. Whatever, having kids in it, I actually wish I would have put the bedrooms on the upstairs and the living on the downstairs portion. I say that because I also have three dogs and you know, they eat in the kitchen. So if you're sleeping downstairs and you hear all this above your head, it's because the dogs are running, ready for food. Kids are running. If guests are there and they're up early and they're loud walkers or whatever, you're over the bedrooms. So, now is that detrimental? No, sometimes you just tell people, shut up if you know him enough, but, um, I wish I would have flipped, flipped that configuration, so when you're sleeping upstairs and then you go downstairs and then there's the activity. Area and not have the activity area over the bedrooms. So you pivoted to a conversation. Ultimately what I hear is it's a lot of it's about noise level and it is right. Yeah. You know what I was pivoting to? It's like, I was wondering, I would have went to, because he would have put the kitchen, the family room area out on the, what I assume is the bottom level. And you would have had more access to the outside easier. Uh, is that anything that factors into that? Or it's like, no, really it's just the noise. It drives me crazy. Well, um, it would have been easier access because, you know, again, the way it is, because it's so high up in the air, the screen and porch sticks out. So when the dogs have to go out to go to the bathroom, you have to go downstairs and cut through a bedroom to let them out to a fenced in portion. So yes, it would allow easier access for that as well. Well, there's no easy redo for you. You can't read. No, there's not. There's not. I mean, yeah. And, uh, you know, and never would I change it, but after being in it for so long and living in it for a period of time, I'm like, Oh, What about you, what's your first one? Well, it's just like with Stuart I'm a little bit torn to say yes or no, but You asked this about this conversation a while back and the first thing that initially popped in my head Was I'm not so sure that I love this great room The great room concept and what we have, you know, the idea of, you know, our kitchen and family rooms all open each other and it's cool and you see each other and interact, but I'm not throwing in particular person under the bus in, uh, but invariably the world aliens have landed. And they're reporting about the aliens landing and they're getting ready to tell you what country they've landed in and you've heard every nuance and detail about their fingernails and their spaceship. But you want to know when they're landing and where landed and what country they're in. And all of a sudden, um. Lom Lom's getting ready to tell you and the blender goes. And that's the rest of the story. And I'm like, uh, what, what, what, where are they? I don't know. So invariably, anytime anything important is being said, heard, or done, there's some noise, some screams, some clank, some mixer, some blender that goes off. You're like, I can't hear anything. Right. It just echoes and it's loud. And yeah, you get to see all that, but if you really want to watch TV in the family room and there's people in there and you want to hear it, you need to go get some of those Papaw earphones and just put it on and ignore the world because you will not ever. No, what's really going on? You just like, I don't know. You know, I've, I figured it out now. I just put it on closed caption. Just sit there like an 80 year old and just read it because like, I've given up knowing what's happening and watching the TV show because, it's just, you can't hear it, So it's the idea. It's loud. And I When I do it over, I'm not sure, and I'm too lazy to go upstairs and watch the TV because I really do want to be part of the people, but this whole great room idea, it's iffy for me, it's iffy. Because yours is completely open to the kids. Yeah, and it's vaulted. And it's a tall ceiling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And again, Truthfully, it goes back to the great room. If we would've built, a different house, I probably wouldn't want a vaulted family room because it goes back to, you are always sitting there with the blanket on in the wintertime even.'cause all the heat's going up and you can't keep you. You definitely, you have a cool effect when you walk in the room, but you never get a warm cozy because it's this big old vaulted room. Right. So there you go. Great room for me. Probably rethink it. Hmm. Well, my 2nd, 1 is about. With our wood floor, we, so growing up in mom and dad's home, my room was the only room in the house. I remember where that I know of. They had hardwood floor. Now the rest of the house might've had it and they put carpet all over it. I have no idea, but my, my room, we had the hardwood floor and I loved it and it was always what I want. Like I just, and it was, it was like a dark Walnut color. Like I have no idea what they had there, but now I think I just realized that it was like a pretty color. Um, but I just always loved that. I always want to put rugs on and I don't like carpet. I just, I like rugs. I just don't really care for carpet. So when we moved into this house. they had had carpet, but they'd ripped it all up. And so the wood was underneath of it, except for the foyer, which had some kind of linoleum tiles on it. Um, we ripped all that up. And then of course, you know, it was in pretty bad shape because it had been under some stuff and wear and tear. And you know, there had been some water plant spots or whatever. So we were going to have to refinish the floor. So when it came time to do that, you know, we'd save some money. We had enough to put the, the down payment on whatever. And we had a little bit of money to like renovate, but there were like more important things in our minds at the time to renovate. Um, and so like putting trim in the foyer was the reason that was like top priority for us and we added a powder room, um, which made sense at that time. But when it came to the floor. I realized, well, if we change the color, I don't have the money to do the runner on the stairs. I also don't have the money to refinish stairs because those bitches are expensive just per stair. And there's a whole top floor that we're not going to live in for a long time. I don't have money to do that. So we said, well, we'll just do the bottom floor. Well, we just kept the original color, which was basically just polyurethane on this red Oak, if you will. It's, it's the color that the, the people said, Oh yeah. After about 50 years, it turns to a beautiful color of country ham. I don't know if they were trying to just like get the fat boy to go along with it. Or whatnot, we were going to be here 50 years, but we just polyurethane the floors. Uh, so here that your floors will eventually look like congealed food. Right. Yeah. No, I don't want that. No, no. Um, so anyway, so they're just, they're just like the normal, you know, people know what that looks like. Just regular pine, uh, oak floor, oak, oak floors. Yeah. Oak floors with, uh, just the same. It's just, you know, it's not that. I wish we would have changed the color because now that we've done the upstairs and we've, you know, it's, it's like, well, hell, I'm not going to empty out the whole damn house. So the description is it's a reddy orange color, right? Yellowy, reddy orange. Yeah. Yeah. It's more yellow than reddy orange. Yellowish. Right. And you would have preferred it to be like more like a walnut. Jack will be, you know, something brown or less red. And the truth is there's not a ton of red in it. Thankfully, uh, at this moment, maybe in 50 years of the country, him time. Um, but I guess that's just, that's what the, you know, everybody who has hardwood floors around here knows that the time that this house was built, which was like 50, 1950, um, that was what's, you know, you either got red oak or white oak. That's kind of true now. Truthfully. Yeah, I guess. So it was really like, they were able to match the colors when we renovated the kitchen, but I, yeah, that's the one thing I wish we would have, you know, done. Cause it wouldn't have cost the same thing more at the beginning, you know, just know if you got Jacobian, it would have showed every dust bunny and every dirt and you would have been cleaning a lot more. I'll give you that much greater, but it's a lot more work though. Love every picture of the house that I see, like, Oh, wait, let me hear. Oh, I don't have to worry about that because. I don't do that. I have people on my husband clean. No, he's much more of the cleaner than I am. I mean, I help, but, um, I do run the vacuum. Okay. Thank you. Um, you'd be more vacuuming. You'd be vacuuming. I get you. I'd say it's, it's worth it. I want the dark floors. I'll, I'll figure out how to clean. In our previous house. We had one little small section that had a dark floor and I know like we had a parcel rug, uh, or whatever. It was more of like a seagrass rug on top of it. And, you know, it broke down over time and, you know, it was dusty and a mess and all that. And I did, I don't want to go that I don't want to go. I think that one was, I think they called it ebony, but it wasn't as black as you would think that would be, but it was really dark brown. And I don't have to, I didn't need to do that. I just need to do something that's more brown, less red, less yellow, red. So I wish we would've done that better. Well, if, well, people will buy flowers on house floral.com. That will give you enough money so you can get your floors refinished. Lord. No, we ain't refinished this thing. You ain't gonna do it, are you? No, I'm not moving all this shit out. You gotta, I was gonna say, you gotta move all that. Nope. Mm-Hmm. Nope. Move. No, not with this. Not with this back. Mm-Hmm. Well that kinda, um, goes into the hou the new house. Um. About the carpet, because only one room had carpet in the whole house and it was the family room, which it was fine with me because I'm, I'm okay with carpet and you're watching TV in there and it has tall ceilings anyway, so it helps with the sound and it's not bad carpet. It's just, I want something different and I wish I would have changed it before we get everything in the room, got everything in there set because now everything's in there and done. And I'm like, oh, Why didn't you do it initially? You just didn't want to deal with it and make a decision on the money. Well, I didn't want to deal with it. And there were so many other priority things that needed to happen first, you know, um, and I'm just like, you know, we'll just, we'll just clean this carpet and vacuum it for a while. Cause you can live, I can live with this and there you go. I don't really want to live with this. Right. And now that it's done and in 95 percent settled, I'm like, we should have torn this out. I would have put carpet back. It wouldn't have been hardwood again, because the whole house has original hardwood to the house. So it's, you know, it's 168 year old floors that everything that was exposed. We did hand scrape. And get the gunk off of them from the last three years. Um, and they're actually beautiful floors. So we didn't have to go in and refinish them all. Certain level of ooze and goop on these floors from the previous residents of the house. Yeah. Extract. Yes. Those who know, they know. Yeah. It was unkempt. It was unkempt is a good word. Um, so. But the floors themselves are very beautiful, but this room has had carpets since, um, you know, since dad moved in, because that was the one room in the house that the hardwood floors were not salvageable, something must've happened in that room at some point in time, it still has, it still has the hardwood floors underneath it, but there was no more sanding to it. It's like they rough, they go, they were gone. So, yeah. But anyway. You know what popped in my question is like, if, um, you didn't in this situation sound like you hired yourself a designer and I mean that in that you like, okay, now, do you really want this carpet? I'm not trying to talk you into new carpet. But if you had a, that little voice in your head, somebody might have pushed you a little bit harder and you didn't hire yourself maybe and say, right, oh, you're right, you're right. I'm, I'm settling, I'm tired. I don't want to make a decision, but let's just get it right before we move in here. And you didn't hire yourself to, to get that, uh, right decision. And I think I was just so overwhelmed with. All the other decisions that had to be made first, you know, it's like, I get it, I get it. Yeah, yes, yes, he was a priority, you know, I get it, I get it. So even though we do this for a living, uh, and this is even for our personal, it's like a certain point, you know, people say, gosh, uh, you know, there's so many decisions and I don't know where to start. Well, even though we do know where to start and we do make a lot of decisions. You do get tired and you get exhausted, especially when you get your own house. You're like, you just like, I don't know. I don't have it in me to make another decision. You just get tired for you, right? You really do. So I get it. Yeah. Like, I don't care. That's the bad part is when you like, I don't care. Then you probably shouldn't, but, but you have to put it in there. You have to, yeah. Just put it in there. Exactly. What we tell customers or clients, like once you say, I don't care. Nope. You're going to make a decision that you're not going to be happy with. That's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's, that's We just talked about that in the last podcast. I think, I think that's so funny that we're, we're guilty of it as well, you know, yeah, yeah, no, no, we're, we're, it's the same situation. I am my own worst client. I am my worst client. Ditto. It's, I get, and I get it. Actually, my husband is. My husband's second guess is everything I say. It's exhausting, isn't it? Where's your keys? Um. Yeah, uh, mine is, um, we have a back porch and it's only about six foot deep. And, uh, When we built the house about 20 years ago, I don't have the same skill set of design knowledge. Have now than I did then I did design stuff 20 years ago, but it was really primarily, uh, picking up paint color and some furniture. But really, I call the fame was putting on a bookcase and moving your stuff around. Right? Truthfully. And let me rehang your pulse all years. And I'm not being. Uglier mean great with that, but that really was what I did. So when I was built this house, I didn't have because like with Stuart, um, he has an interior design degree from UK, Jeremy, you have this degree with visual merchandising, but you have this artistic background and mine is accounting and so everything I know and did. I don't have that background building houses and design and all that stuff. So when we were building this house, there were things I just didn't know and didn't know to ask and didn't know to do right. And, uh, but I'm a designer. I don't need help. I didn't even think about hiring anybody. Right. You're just like what you did. So you're your own worst client. You know, it's like, I didn't even think that needed anybody. Right. Well, I've learned through life through asking both of you and other design friends, that's what sounding board is about. And it reaffirms something, or it gets that advice to get you to see something through a different lens. So long story is we just built the house. On the outside, at least, because we did tweak some things inside that just built the house, what the architect had drawn, uh, it was freedom plans. It wasn't the architect, but the book, what's it called? When it's just, just basic plans, you buy, isn't there's a. Isn't yours a William Poole design? Yes. Yeah. So there's a, yes, exactly. So, you know, it's like a Southern living kind of house, uh, vibe to it. So anyway, this is just what he drew out and that's what the porch was, and it's what we built. And I didn't think anything about it. And really it's almost not usable, right? You know, it, for me, if it would have been another, you know, Even two feet deeper. I mean, just that little bit deeper, uh, because it's not deep enough because it's the perfect situation. It's a bank of glass, uh, French doors off the back of the living room and it's door to the kitchen. That's where um, a dining room table and chairs would've been in perfect place to eat dinner. It's just not big enough to have a table and chairs and you'd be able to pull'em out unless you fall off the porch. So we end up just having some chairs back there, but end up sitting on the front porch down and rarely, rarely use the back porch'cause it's just not big enough. And it's the matter of just realizing it could have been, you know, two feet more. Right. And that's all the difference in the world. I'm probably would have done even bigger, but I'm just saying that that minimum of tweak or change could have made that porch usable where really right now it's pretty, but it has no purpose in a way. And that's disappointing. That's disappointing. Yeah. Cause you really want the, like, that's like, you know, building a house. I think like you have the dream of like utilizing those spaces, right? Like spending the evenings out there, you know, with friends and family Cause I know you would definitely have used that had it been much bigger. Well, last night, I mean, did we have the go outside? Of course, you'll listen to this a week later, but right now when we're taping this, it is the most beautiful weather this week. So go outside and enjoy it. Uh, so we were outside, um, guys, I literally was thinking of you all last night. Now I get emotional. Tuesday, you don't know. Yes. Or maybe you don't remember By the coast. It was a Tuesday. Yes. I was a muscle relaxer. So I have no, I have no sense. You go for what I was doing. Do you know what I was sitting in last night? One of the rocking chairs that y'all gave us when we moved into our house. Oh yeah. I have maintained those and love those. And new rockers have, they've rotted away and been replaced, but I still have them and I still love them. Aw, aw. So thank you way. Yeah, that was a gift that was out of love and they have that's nearly 20 years ago. Do you realize that? Yeah, that's a long time ago. Yeah. Yeah. So what what i'm talking about guys is when we uh, Moved into the house, uh, the boys, uh bought these rocking chairs from cracker barrel, maybe Yeah, they were black rock chairs and I came home and they were sitting on my front porch Pretty good pretty sweet, right? Pretty sweet. So anyway, still love them. But, front porch is good. And we sat on the swing. The swing that Kathy sat on last night is a swing that was made uh, it's a little extra deep because she wanted to be able to take a nap on it. And, um, that was made as a wedding gift to us. Um, from one of her dad's friends. And he made swings and rocking chairs and all that. And oh my. And that was a wedding gift that he gave us and we still have that also. So, how sweet is that. So when you look at some of these stuff, especially with us, I'm very sentimental. It's like, you look at that porch and you see the swings and rocking chairs. And it's like, Oh, that's a pretty moment, but there's history and love there also. Bing, bang, boom. You know, um, speaking of that, you know, when Jeremy and I got married, we, we'd already lived together for a long time. We'd been together for 18 years. I think by the time we got married. Um, but we, if you'll remember when we registered, we hadn't done our backyard. We hadn't done the landscaping and entertaining and all that. And, uh, or it's places for entertaining. And, um, this weekend on Memorial Day, uh, we had a friend back in town who used to live here, but had moved to DC. And he of course, like had bought some of, you know, his, whatever his gift part was. I think they, I think our big group of friends ended up buying us a fountain that goes back there that we have titled Screaming Jordan Sister Falls. Um, we have, we have, um, friends, the Jordan sisters and they are some loud bitches and that we love them dearly. Um, but so there's this big fountain that's back there screaming Jordan sister falls and everybody knows that's what the name is of all of our groups. Yeah. Everybody's so excited when it's up and running again. Um, but while he was in town this weekend, uh, on Saturday, evening, everybody came over to the house and we spent time outside using the outside space and he ever, all of our other friends had been there, and experienced it, but he had not, and it was, it's kind of like that, like you, you, you forget, I mean, maybe I forgot, maybe I'm just, you know, spoiled, um, But you forget like all this was part of a loving gift from, from so many people and then it was kind of like, Oh, like, yeah, I don't need to take this for granted. So, but yeah, same thing. Like long, nice teeth. Yeah, I'll make sure to make you your two ounces, your two sips, your two sips of them. Dwayne does not drink for our listeners. Um, and so if we go out, if we go, if we're at market and then we go to a restaurant and it's been a very. Long and wearing day, um, Stuart will order his makers and Sprite I'll order my Woodford and Coke and Dwayne who does not drink will order his Long Island iced tea. Um, and they will bring it and he will drink approximately two sips and then push the rest of it in front of us to drink. I don't know why the person who does not drink orders the drink with all the alcohol, right? All the things. All that one little drink, Oh, my little energy feeling real warm. I think I'm drunk when you had two drinks, two sips, two sips, two sips, two sips. You take me back into my room, Stuart, put me, lock me up. I don't want to be out on the streets of Atlanta. I don't know what I'll do. Unlike my last experience. Oh my God, that, that's a, Drunk on a sidewalk. Yeah, we'll have to get there later. Yeah, that's hilarious. Maybe yeah, we're yeah, there we go. We're going to have to have talk about adventures. Adventure market. Some of these, you can't make this crap up. You cannot make this crap up. There we go. I'm interested to talk about it. Um, oh, well, hello. They, uh, so yes, my five year old is at work today and she's being very good while we're recording this. And they just, they just saw her on camera though. Cutie. Cutie. Oh, she got her hair braided. Yeah. It looks great. Hey. Hey. Hey. Can you say hello to the listening and audience of tens of tens of people? Say hi to all the people. Hi, There you go. That was a weak high Joe. Joe has been out there braiding her hair this morning. Oh yeah. Yes. Yeah. My, uh, Stewart's mic is, um, we'll use the word calibrated to deal with his low, tone and so it's not for sure what, how to handle her sweet, high little right. It's more suited for me. Right. Um, okay. So my third thing for wanting to, like, I wish I was a different kind of goes, I mean, it kind of references back to the shower wand. Also, I'm going to share the first thing that Jeremy said, which wasn't on my list, which I think is ready if I say, but so our, in our kitchen, we often opted to do a, uh, farmhouse sink, so it's a 33 inches wide, so it's a big, big single basin sink. I'm happy we did the single, single basin sink. I like having all that space so I can fit big things down in there and, and, and it makes it much easier. Um, and when we got to do that, when we were doing the kitchen, Jeremy really wanted to do one of those bridge faucets. So, you know, it has the, it attaches to the countertop at two places. It comes up and then it joins to middle in the middle and comes over. And I love it. Beautiful look. Purposes, it's, it kind of looks old, vintage, yeah, yes. And it's antique brass and it's, you know, all the little details. It's all, it's all, it's beautiful. I love it just as much now as when we did, we put it in, but what we didn't put in was a spray nozzle. So evidently my thing is like cleaning. I was going to say that's the one sprayer in the bathroom sprayer in the kitchen. You know, because when you got that big sink, and of course you got a big arm that comes outta the faucet, so you can swivel the, the faucet from left to rock to do it. But when you got a big sink, you can't get the water. So you're always having to use the clean, the sponges and the upper. Yeah. Yeah. It's not same. So I wish, I do wish we would've had a nozzle, so that's the spray nozzle. So those were like, and I mean I don't even clean that much, but I don't, I know that it would make it much easier. Um. Those were my three things I mentioned to Jeremy that we're doing, we're going to talk about this. And I was like, what do you have? And then the first thing out of his mouth was heated floor. And I said, what? And he goes, I wish we would've done the sunroom. We would've done heated floors. And I said, well, we've never had it. Like, I don't, I don't. I don't understand like the benefits to it or not, not understand, but I can't identify with like needing to have it. Um, and he was like, you know, how cold that room gets in the winter, how much that, well, that would help. And I was like, Oh, I didn't think about that. So that was his, but that was, it was immediate without even thinking. That was the first thing he went to, which was nowhere on my radar. You all tiled that floor. Yeah. It's a concrete. You put the tile in there. Yeah. You put concrete on it. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, So I think my third one is very minor, but as you know, we've talked earlier that, um, you know, we were doing an addition in this, in this house that consisted mainly of a primary suite on the first floor, which grew into a breakfast room and a new laundry room as well. And we're done. Everything's done. So it was two months from start to finish. Which was, that's amazing. That's amazing. I made amazing. and we didn't kill each other. That's good. Who's your carpenter? Who do you know him well? Well, my significant other is the contractor. So amazing. What you sleep with somebody, what gets done? Just that good. Uh, anyway, um, everything is great. Yeah. Everything is great. And going into the new laundry room, I always want to turn the light switch on the left side, and it's wired on the right side. And it is so weird. Every other light switch I've, you know, it's just natural to walk in and, and they're all on the right hand side. Like as you walk through the new, the new space, everything's on the right side. So it would make sense that the electrician just put that one on the right side. But walking into that, I always lift up my left hand to flick that switch. Okay. And I don't know why, because it didn't exist before. So it's not like a memory recall. It's brand new. I'm like, Oh, that's switch on the left. Why don't you put one of those little, um, switch out the, switch out the switch to one of those, um, like a little motion. Is it called, are they called Casita? Casada? Cause there's like, you can, you have the, you have the main switch and then you have another switch that you can put anywhere you want to, and then you flip it, so it's just on the other side of the doorframe. Well, that'd be dumb. Then just have to do switches. Well. Or you could just still bitch about it. Like I'm giving you learn, learn. It's on the right side. I mean, and it's dumb, it's dumb, but, um, so that'd be the only thing I'd change. Now, he's going to listen to this and I'm going to be gone on a work trip one day, one weekend, and I'm going to come back and that switch is going to be on the left hand side. That's okay though. That's love. That's love. And it is okay. It is okay. Yeah. Is that and there's going to be new carpet in that living room. Well, hey, no, it's Jeremy, uh, builder. Jeremy Stewart's significant. Not the other Jeremy or the other Jeremy. Oh my God. Gay people named Jeremy drives me crazy. But with the other Jeremy builder, fix that, fix that switch for him. It'll work out for you real good. Oh, Lord. But that's it. Okay. My last one is we have, in the upstairs bedroom and the kids bedroom. Bedroom now, it's kid now, no kid because I was leaving me by, um, they're both fiberglass tubs, you know, just drop ins. And when we built the house about 20 years ago, that wasn't a no, no, right? That was kind of an okay thing to do. Now, it's an absolute 100 percent for me. No, no, because it reads cheap. Uh, I am never going to rip them out because the bathrooms are fine. Uh, I'm never going to change them, but I'm also never going to now. Because they got shower curtains on them, right, because I don't want to go put fancy glass doors on them because I think that looks even worse. So really one thing layers on another, but ultimately, you know, I wanted the tub with, Ceramic tile surrounds, because I think it looks better. And then I would have put, you know, glass doors on it. Well, one, like I said, one thing's another, so I'm never going to put glass doors on these fiberglass tubs, cause that's just gonna look cheap and ugly. So I don't even have to do that, but I'm not going to rip them out. Uh, but I gotta live with it, right? That's gotta live with it. I'm not ripping them out. I can just tell you that right now. I'm done with, my tear is about done. I'm tired. I'm tired of dealing with it. I'm not ripping anything out. And I can't say it's a mistake because it just wasn't something that was done back then. It was okay. It was normal back then and that's not true now. But if I had to, I wish I'd have known that my younger 20 year old, I would have not done those tufts. I would have done it, done it how it's done now. It's just from things, things just change really and that's evolved a little bit. Yeah. 20 years ago that, that, that tub with tile on top of it was considered very high end and it wasn't prevalent. Exactly. Like you said. Now it's the norm. It just wasn't. Right. Now it's normal. It'd be like, Oh, look, just skip the tub and put the tile on. So yeah, it has changed. Yep. Yeah. Basically live with it. Move on. Well, look at that. We all three have things that we wish would change. We are just like you. Normal people. The little people. The little people. Gosh. Alright, well I think that's good for today. I'm sure we'll come up with some other things. But, um, we'll let that go. Alright, so we will see you all next week. Alright, thanks guys. Bye. Alright, bye.