RetireJapan

RetireJapan wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:17 am

7-seasons.com wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 1:39 am The build process sounds like a wedding x 1000 though in terms of choices and decisions over the course of 2+ years. One anecdote I have heard from a friend of a friend is that the lady ended up just saying "I'll take whatever you recommend for the garden."

I hated this for our renovation of my wife's parents place. It was literally hundreds of hours of meetings about wallpaper and kitchen fittings and electrical sockets and bathroom designs and...

The thing is, you need to do all of it or you will end up paying much more than you want, or end up with a home that isn't quite designed right.

In no hurry to go through that ever again.

Haha damn. I feel like I want to do it someday in the same way that I would also like to drive a Lamborghini - if I had unlimited money so I didn't have to compromise on house choices. Like, let's cheap out on the wallpaper but get high-end countertops... wouldn't be as fun I don't think.

And, analysis paralysis. Even you just mentioning wallpaper reminded me of shopping around for curtains that took hours - I initially told my wife "I don't care about curtains just pick whatever" and then I ended up getting into it and being really picky about the designs and qualities.

7-seasons.com wrote: ↑Wed Jan 11, 2023 2:38 am Haha damn. I feel like I want to do it someday in the same way that I would also like to drive a Lamborghini - if I had unlimited money so I didn't have to compromise on house choices. Like, let's cheap out on the wallpaper but get high-end countertops... wouldn't be as fun I don't think.

And, analysis paralysis. Even you just mentioning wallpaper reminded me of shopping around for curtains that took hours - I initially told my wife "I don't care about curtains just pick whatever" and then I ended up getting into it and being really picky about the designs and qualities.

Exactly. We did some minor renovations to our manshon a couple of years ago (new kitchen and floor) and there are aspects of it that we got wrong or didn't know enough about to make informed choices (one example: we ended up getting an artificial countertop, but my wife mentions almost every week that she wishes we'd gotten the more expensive stone one).

Buying/renovating a home is something most people will only do once or twice, so don't have the chance to practice enough to be good at it