My husband is the same way...

Wow, this house is really making you work hard for it. If you were dating it, I would advise you to break up with it, but now you've gone and eloped without telling us. So all we can do is support you along the way.

You're welcome

New house looks wonderful, I covet your built ins in a way that almost breaks a commandment. Sorry about the issues, you will get them all worked out and will have amusing stories to tell for years. Stay away from flatpack furniture and storm windows and you will be fine!!!
At least you don't have a spraying sump pump like I did yesterday. And when I called Hubby in DC to tell him a new one was installed he said "oh, yeah I thought about getting both replaced last year but didn't" of course you didn't zippy..because you know how much I like water where it should not be.
Oh and critters? Just remember, unless they pay part of the mortgage, they don't get to stay in the walls.

Hi--I love your house. But can you tell me why that bedroom door has a deadbolt on it? Marauding Mormans, perhaps? ;-)

can i just say that your hallway has more storage than my entire house?! i am literally green with envy. wicked-style.

and really, i'm just jealous of your entire house. we'll be moving back to utah in a yearish, and i'm praying my luck is as insane as yours. minus the critters of course...

My husband almost died the other day because we were out running errands and Comcast is the furthest away from out house so we went there first with plans to work our way back. We got a DVR which we have never had before. You would have thought I was clipping off his fingers one by one with a branch cutter, they way he was moaning and whining because we couldn't go directly home and play with it RIGHT NOW. I didn't know making a man go to the grocery store was cruel and unusual punishment but I guess it is if you have a new DVR in the trunk.

I thought you were going to say that the new dishwasher didn't work. And I had a very slight PTSD moment, I have to admit.

I'm totally loving these new house stories. And all the pictures. I would do pretty much anything to have a house like that. Seriously...anything...

I am wondering about the bedroom deadbolt TOO! And how appropriate is my Captcha? Primness Street.

ok, yes I have a dishwasher but haven't had the luxury of buying a new one yet....so, maybe it's cause i'm canadian, but what are you talking about "seasoning the griddle".

i'm so confused. did you buy a cast iron frying pan too?
i'm lost. sniff.

I too wondered about the deadbolt and began to picture what kind of kinky sex one would have that would require a deadbolt on the door. Always remember to have a safe word!

my husband is the same way. i have about 3 dvds that i got for christmas last year that i haven't opened just to piss him off. the fact that i can wait longer than 3 minutes to open a new anything baffles him.

oh, and i think the hallway on your new house is my favorite part too.

Another vote here for more pictures. When you were in your first house, my husband and I bought a century home to renovate. You're now two houses later, and we have 3 of 11 rooms done, the rest in total disarray. Your pictures are pure house porn for me.

Don't you know? You can't have your griddle and cook with it too!

I call it Testosterone Hands.