Guess how many times I've been to Home Depot in the last 8 weeks....

Phewf.. I survived. 8 weeks of basement renovations. Sure, sounds easy, but if you knew the postage stamp sized house I live in with 2 kids, and 2 dogs.. and everything from the basement upstairs.. you'd pat me on the back too...

So here's my point. Now that the basement is done, I can get something off my chest. Not to be complaing about the new space, it's how the general contractor approached the situation. If you've ever been to my place (if you haven't stop by some time) you know that we like a slightly more classic style. Our house is 100 years old, and we like that. Our decorating style is geared to that. So.. when it came time to design our basement, the contractor kept trying to push his 'modern' style on us. "You'll love what I'm going to do over here... it will be so modern..." or something of that nature... each time we told him that we're not 'modern' people. Granted I love the finished product, however, I had to keep on top of the project almost daily trying to keep things from getting out of hand.

Bottom line, make sure you're selling what your customers want to buy, not what you want them to buy.