The Weekend Project
I did a week-end project at my house recently, a DO-IT-YOURSELF project. I finally laid the tile in our upstairs bathroom. Weekend project my ass! Let me tell you, those home improvement shows lie like dogs. Everything is sooo easy and absolutely anyone can do it. Well my wife couldn’t so it was all me. My father-in-law, thank God, helped me out. He’d done it before and knew all the pit falls. I didn’t ask him how he knew but we can probably assume that it was from making all the mistakes himself.
Anyway, the weekend project started one weekend and wasn’t finished until almost eight weeks later. It looks great and I’m really proud of the work I did, but it’ll be a cold day in Hell before I do another project around the house.
Those home improvement shows have staffs that do all the prep work so the on air personalities look good. It’s like putting together a plastic airplane model once it’s time to film. 90% of the job is prep-work, the rest is just follow through. Now when I watch the shows, I just laugh.
