Ty's Tips: 10 signs your home needs a makeover
February 16, 2010
Ty Pennington
Ten ways to know that your home needs a makeover:
1. You wake up and can’t see the floor because clothing, books, and debris are everywhere.
2. You can’t open the door of the closet because you’ve shoved so many things into it.
3. You’re using plastic storage bins as dresser drawers and milk crates as furniture.
4. You’ve made shelving out of cinder blocks and 1 x 12s.
5. Your clothes are in garbage bags or in boxes still labelled “Closet.”
6. You’re sleeping on the floor with the moving blanket that you still have from when you first moved in.
7. There’s absolutely no artwork up except pizza boxes.
8. There are no blinds on your window, and the first thing that hits you in the morning is the bright sun, shining like a laser.
9. You’re lying in bed, a bus goes by, and your whole house rattles and rolls, then a little bit of drywall falls off the ceiling and hits you on the head. (I speak from experience.)
10. It’s the holidays, the family is coming to visit, and your mother-in-law or stepmom or grandparents walk in and the first thing they say is, “You know, we think we’ll get a hotel room.”
Tips excerpted from Ty Pennington’s Good Design Can Change Your Life.
Pennington will appear at the National Home Show on Feb. 19.
Read more of Ty’s Tips:
Personalizing your space
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