At the beginning of a remodel, money is everything, but as you go along, it becomes secondary to the vision. You can't have the house looking like a glorious jewel and leave the cracked linoleum or the icky light fixture, so you spend and spend and spend. Then one day it suddenly occurs to you that all that play money you've been throwing around is real - and it's in someone else's bank account.
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. - Margo Kaufman
The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor.
- Margo Kaufman
One person's mess is merely another person's filing system. - Margo Kaufman
One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.
Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment. - Margo Kaufman
Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was. - Margo Kaufman
Remarriage is an excellent test of just how amicable your divorce was.
It seems to be a rule of life that the less qualified you are to give counsel, the more counsel you give. - Margo Kaufman
It seems to be a rule of life that the less qualified you are to give counsel, the more counsel you give.
Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these … - Margo Kaufman
Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these …
Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery. - Margo Kaufman
Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery.
I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A.M. - Margo Kaufman
I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A.M.
Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal. - Margo Kaufman
Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.
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