October 20, 2003
Remodelling
I'm remodelling my kitchen. This means I spend an inordinate amount of time looking through magazines and books for ideas. It also means I get to spend a lot of time at Home Depot Expo. In fact, I think I logged about six hours there this weekend. Here's an experiment:
- Make sure you're a single male
- Make sure you go to Home Depot Expo alone
- Optional: Dress in jeans and an old t-shirt
- Try and find someone to help you
I don't know if every step of that formula is completely necessary, but picking two out of the first three will almost guarantee that you'll be ignored even with a notebook, pen and checkbook in hand. Not only that, but two out of the three times I've been there the person who finally helped me seemed like they were trying to shake me off their leg as soon as possible. Thankfully, I found someone very helpful on my last visit who was new to the cabinetry area. She spent a couple hours going over my options, and was good about telling me where I could save money, if needed.
Here's a picture of my kitchen right now, for reference:
Apparently, the only guy at Expo who goes out to customer's houses to do measurements for cabinetry is backlogged by a month. Then, it takes six weeks to deliver the cabinets once they're ordered. So, I'm already two and a half months out at least. I'm guessing it's going to take until February to finish things up, at least.
Posted by Rob at October 20, 2003 08:41 PM