The 29-year-old man has been dating his 36-year-old girlfriend for two years and they live together in a house he inherited. When his girlfriend first moved into his house, she was excited about the home repair projects they could do.
Up until then, I had only rented an apartment, so even if I renovated it, I wouldn't have gotten my security deposit back. He was initially happy to let his girlfriend do her home repair project, but after a while he realized that she made poor decisions and didn't do a proper job in completing the project. It became clear.
Every project his girlfriend did was a disaster. Her first project she decided to do was to install a shelf next to her toilet, but he couldn't understand why she thought this was a good idea in the first place. When his girlfriend suggested this, he wasn't too keen.
“I said the toilet was already a pretty tight space and the shelving would make it even more cramped. I came home from work that day to find an unleveled shelf hastily screwed into the wall at shoulder height. I found it,” he said.
If he was shorter, the height of the shelf wouldn't necessarily have been an issue, but he was tall. When he sits on the toilet, the shelf makes the space even smaller, so I have to lean forward and tuck his shoulders in.
After installing the bathroom shelf, my girlfriend told me that the curtains in the guest room were too long. The curtains belonged to my late grandmother, and they were of such good quality that she said I could buy something different. But she thought it would be better to “hem” her grandmother's curtains.
This time she used regular scissors, not fabric scissors. His girlfriend didn't measure or think about how much fabric to cut out the curtains.
I cut the fabric at the bottom of the curtain and it is only 1 inch off the floor when the curtain is installed in its lowest position. At its highest point, he stands 6 inches off the ground. Since then, his girlfriend has frantically completed numerous other terrible DIY projects.
“She put up some DIY wallpaper on the bathroom wall, and it had bubbles in it, and as you can imagine, was uneven and cut sloppily. They installed a shoe rack and made sure we couldn't open the door more than 80 degrees,” he explained.
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