Holes

When we were getting the Texas house ready to sell one of the things we did to make it look better was add knobs and drawer pulls to the kitchen cabinets.  I think at one point Charlie had asked me if we needed them and I just kind of answered, "eh", so we had never really pursued it before that.  But adding hardware to the kitchen made it look so much better I was amazed.

So when we moved into this house and found that there weren't any knobs or drawer pulls anywhere in the entire house, this time I decided that we would put them on sooner than later.  I am going to make the house look nice for me instead of the people who we eventually sell it to or in other words make the house show ready now instead of worrying about it later.  Don't worry, we are not moving again any time soon (or not that I know of).

I bought all of the hardware at Target.  They have a very small but very good selection of handles and knobs and they are much cheaper than Lowe's or Home Depot.  In fact, when I was checking out the cashier was really impressed and surprised that they even sold something that looked that nice.  I guess not that many people buy them if she had never seen them before, but that's one of those great things about Target - you can always find something that's a little nicer than you expect.

I was sort of waiting for the right time to put them on but finally got sick of waiting and tired of slamming my fingers in the drawers and this week did almost the entire house.  Charlie walked into the office last night and asked if I was going to change out the knobs that were already on one of our crumby dressers (which I should because it would make it look so much nicer), but I told him I wasn't putting any knobs where I didn't make the holes myself.

I was empowered with the drill and once I started I couldn't stop.  When we did it at the old house I hired a handyman to do the kitchen.  But I didn't realize that you can buy little plastic templates at Home Depot and they are really cheap and it is super easy to do as long as you have a drill.  I watched the handyman do it the first time and was all "I can do that!".  My dad helped out in the old house, but he isn't come to visit for a couple of months so I did it all myself.  It was awesome.  I only messed up one drawer where I put the hole a little too far to one side and had to play with it for awhile, otherwise it was a piece of cake.  I did the entire kitchen in less than two hours.

I'm telling you, this place is coming together!


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