Homegirl readers: Here's a chance to share your "creeping project" stories. Or: What's your record number of trips to the hardware store for a single project?
My sister calls it "Project Creep." I call it Project Runaway." It's fun, maddening and time-consuming. Every homeowner knows the game. It starts innocently, with a new set of pillows, perhaps, and then suddenly, you spend three weekends mixing concrete.
My little story opened with a shower curtain and ended with a mini bathroom makeover.
One afternoon I griped about the dated shower roller doors on the tub. They're awkward, and the tracks are impossible to clean. Shower curtains seem fresher and brighter.
That comment was the key, unleashing the handyman who is my husband.
The shower doors came off and we coaxed away layers of caulk. A new shower curtain on a bar mounted to the ceramic tile looked stunning.
Oops. The curtain is too long for the space. Better hem it. Oops, I hemmed it too much.
Look at that toilet. It's wasting water. Let's get a more efficient one. Installation was a breeze. So was the new sink faucet that we really didn't need but made the room oh-so -spiffy. Yikes. A leak. New shutoff valves. More trips to the neighborhood hardware store. No sweat.
