I was crouched on the cold kitchen floor, knees sticky with some old grout dust, staring at three wildly different quotes and wondering why my life suddenly involved so many spreadsheets. One said $40,000. One said $110,000. The third had a number in the middle and a note that permit fees were "to...
I was staring at three wildly different contractor quotes on the kitchen table, coffee gone cold, and my five-year-old was using the old 1990s cabinet doors as train tunnels on the floor. One quote said $40,000 and came with a vague timeline and "prices subject to change." Another said $110,000...
I was hunched over the kitchen table, three prints of quotes spread out like a bad fortune teller's cards, coffee gone cold and the dog at my feet whining at the noise from the street. The cabinets still had those ugly woodgrain fronts from the 1990s, and the tile guy at the Steeles showroom had...