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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I *do* know something of DIY home improvement.  I've built furniture, tiled walls, painted and papered walls, and done a lot of stuff.  I used to do a lot of projects in our last house.  However, when we moved into our new home, we built a new home with most of the amenities and most work done by the builder.  Why?  We were planning to expand our family.  We now have toddler twins and frankly, I've been able to do about 10% of what I used to do.  Unless you budget to contract out a lot of the work, you can expect that you'll get about one "project" done per year, at most, with two young kids unless one of you does all the childcare and the other one works on the projects.

So, when you talk about a fixer-upper, are you willing to live with most of the "projects" undone for many years?  When trying to consider this, think about doing one project a year and living with the rest of those unfinished or old features for year after year.  Are you willing to live with these things that long?[/quote]

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