Going back to Indiana
“We looked at 20 to 25 houses,” says Dye. After being shown a lot of big new houses that just weren’t their style, she began to doubt they’d ever find the right place. Then her realtor suggested this empty-nesters’ house on a leafy block brimming with children. It hadn’t even gone on the market yet. “We had a soul-mate-y thing with our realtor,” says Dye.
THE BEFORE PICTURE
The previous owners had layered the house with 25 years of affection. Wallpaper everywhere, tired carpeting in the master bathroom, a sunken bath and lots of mirrors. The “Love, American-Style” hot tub in the basement was a bigger problem. Even the kitchen, rehabbed in 1992, didn’t work. Its biggest stumbling block was a large, double-sided fireplace that divided the kitchen from the family room. “Both Chip and I love to cook,” says Dye. “We wanted the family room open to the kitchen.”
SIX MONTHS TO OVERHAUL AN ENTIRE HOUSE. GO!
“It’s a lot like love,” says Dye getting a bit teary about her relationship with decorator Jordana Joseph of jorje interior design and contractor Tim DeVries of Scheeringa & DeVries. The choice of interior designer was a no-brainer since Joseph had helped the couple with their Bucktown home, but finding a builder they could connect with took longer. “I was a renovation magazine junkie,” says Dye, “and everything I read said to get at least three bids, then toss out the high bid and the low one and go with someone in the middle.” In the end, DeVries was chosen not for his middling estimate, but for his can-do attitude. Most contractors were skeptical about taking out that big kitchen fireplace. But DeVries, Dye recalls, said: “This is going to be great. I love this kind of job.”
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Fine. Then likewise, when we see a video of a cop beating someone, tasering them to death, or countless other ‘bad’ things, we shouldn’t complain about those either?
But it was TOTALLY effective when redditors reviewed Dianetics on Amazon!
are you suggesting to fix a design error by abstinence? Isn’t that the idea os the US (or is it catholic?) sexual education?
All comments on Ratemycop need to be approved me thinks.
The commentary there then needs to be taken differently then. Where it is presented as a “This is much more like who we like to see in an officer and would be more wiling to comply to” rather than simply a kudo’s or a post as if you were there just because you saw the video once.Truth be told, if the police officer took time to explain things like this more often, or does routinely, and I fucked up somehow, I would be willing to come along quietly with a much more objective officer than a hotheaded pig cop.