Build something NEW!

In a booming economy where everyone is bringing home some bacon new New NEW is the way of the day.  Disposal breaks down?  Install a new one with all the latest and greatest gadgets and extras!  You've seen the display for the updated look on "old fashion" styled washers and dryers, and they are PRETTY!  Who wouldn't enjoy doing laundry in a shiny new deep red set?  That glass door front load laundromat look is IN! House too small for entertaining in style?  Bigger and better just got built up the road! 

I used to do something different, too, when the economy was booming.  Like me, I'm sure you've felt the pinch - some in more ways than one.  Bringing home the bacon is getting a lot harder, so spending it takes more consideration as well.  I noticed something else about this economy.  Families are responding by banding together.  The kids aren't just coming home after college while they find a job.  They're coming home to help keep the home in the family.  "Blended family" is taking on new meaning as married children partner with aq set of parents to share one big family house.

That means more people putting more stress on existing houses.  Up and moving to "bigger and better" isn't the answer for many right now.  A lot more remodeling is taking place, a lot more adding on.  And a lot more repairing and re-using what we've got is also the smarter way to go at this time.  Instead of fretting over losing what WAS, HouseDr is hunkering down and thoroughly enjoying a whole new way of life.  Handyman suits me!  I like fixing things.  I like rebuilding and reshaping the stuff we use in our lives.  I find I am enjoying rebuilding and reshaping my life along the way as well.  And I'm meeting a lot of great folks I wouldn't have met otherwise.