First Post

Home renovation, like many other endeavors, is something that people often fail at.  The only problem is that if you fail at renovation, your failure is out there for all the world to see.  It would almost seem endearing if the perpetrator of these terrible hack jobs left a sign beside their work that simply said "SORRY".  Since there is no sign such as that, I can only imagine that there is pride in that job.
In an effort to prevent people from being fooled into thinking that the renovation they are seeing is OK, I am starting this blog as sort of a "what-not-to-do-when-working-on-a-house" tutorial.  If anyone sees their house on this blog, don't hate me - hate your contractor.  All I do is observe.  Here is a taste of the type of thing you will see here (with many more to come once I can remember to bring my camera home from work).

{standing back and looking on with pride while dusting off hands}  "Alright, your new door is up.  Home Depot didn't have any that matched the size of the original opening, so I tweaked it a bit."

This is a real winner and one of my pet-peeves - new openings that don't exactly fit the original openings.  I have seen this problematic thing handled with much more finesse than this, but then again nothing says "Screw You" to the local neighborhood association quite like not even trying.

(a converted historic commercial building in midtown Savannah, GA. - photographed by me in 2007)