Adding to your living space

**Rain Man** · 08:29 PM

Hypothetical:

You're sitting in your living room watching reruns of M*A*S*H back when Colonel Blake was on, when you notice something disturbing. The outlet that the TV is plugged into has a white outlet cover on it. This is totally unacceptable. Every other outlet in the house is pale beige, not white. They don't match.

So you turn off the TV and drive to Home Depot, and after three hours of trying to find outlet covers, during which time eight Home Depot associates ran when you approached them to ask, you find a new pale beige outlet cover.

You walk to the front, get out your credit card, and observe that the self-check-out lines are all closed for no apparent reason. You get in line behind a guy with a whole bunch of big plywood sheets and a crying toddler, and say nothing as the toddler continually pushes the cart so that the plywood sheets hit you.

After ten minutes, they close the register for reasons unknown, and you switch lines to another register where a woman is writing a check for the purchase of two screws and a pack of Trident. After she writes the check (first recording in her register and balancing her checkbook), the cashier takes the check to customer service, which takes it to the assistant manager, who takes it to the manager, who you recognize as being the guy who always smoked marijuana behind the gym when the two of you were in high school. He looks at it to see if the woman has a non-minority-sounding American name and then checks it and gives it back to the assistant manager, who gives it back to customer service, who gives it back to the cashier, who puts it in her drawer.

At last, you step to the front of the counter. Suddenly, bells go off! Confetti and balloons and big pieces of plywood drop from the ceiling, and the corporate head of Home Depot and his gang of yes men descend upon you. As it turns out, you are Home Depot's one billionth dissatisfied customer!

As a grand prize for this distinction, Home Depot will add 150 square feet to your home. What new square footage do you add?

Rule: If you live in an apartment or condo, assume that you can still add this space. If you live with your parents, assume that you own the home and have had them put into a retirement village.

Rule: You have to take the 150 square feet in one chunk. You can't add 25 square feet to six rooms.

Rule: Don't think about resale. Think only about your own personal needs, wants, fears, hopes, dreams, aspirations, desperation, perspiration, and agitation.

Poll coming as soon as the manager approves it.

Simplex3 · 10-24-2007, 08:19 PM

Anyone else feel like a lab rat sometimes?

kcfan82 · 10-24-2007, 08:21 PM

Easy, I turn my basement into the 810 zone and name it the Chiefs Lounge.

**OnTheWarpath15** · 10-24-2007, 08:22 PM

Home Depot sells Trident?

**mikeyis4dcats.** · 10-24-2007, 08:22 PM

****...is this another of Redrum's PMs?

**Donger** · 10-24-2007, 08:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simplex3

Anyone else feel like a lab rat sometimes?

No. But I do wonder who has beige outlet covers any longer.

10-24-2007, 08:25 PM

I'd definitely build a panic room.... with a comfortable toilet.

**Buehler445** · 10-24-2007, 08:27 PM

I would build a game room. I want a pool table.

**Rain Man** · 10-24-2007, 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simplex3

Anyone else feel like a lab rat sometimes?

Actually, there are a lot of treatment rules that have to be applied to lab rats. Chiefsplanet is a lot easier to work with.

JBucc · 10-24-2007, 08:37 PM

I would love a huge bathroom. I want one that's bedroom sized where it's like a 20 foot walk from the tub to the toilet.

10-24-2007, 08:39 PM

I wish it were multiple choice. Honestly, I'd enlarge the master bath/master closet/laundry room. For some reason my house has two kitchens. We call the smaller of the two the "snack kitchen". It's just behind our laundry room (which is essentially a hall closet with just enough room for a w/d), adjacent to the master closet and master bath. I'd like to eventually tear out the snack kitchen and remodel that entire area into a larger walkin closet, master bathroom, and utility room.

Really, my only complaint about the master bathroom is the size of the shower. I'm anxiously awaiting the death of the jacuzzi tub so I can yank it out and install a massive shower.

Did I provide too much information?

unlurking · 10-24-2007, 08:44 PM

I feel slighted by the fact that my next home (hopefully January) isn't an option here! You don't even have something close like a "back deck" that I could choose! I guess put me down for the "unknown" portion of the poll, because I'd like an extra 150 for my cockpit (cannot wait)...

**Rain Man** · 10-24-2007, 08:44 PM

Your house has two kitchens? Is the second one the one where the live-in butler, chef, and maid prepare their own meals?

In my own house, I would realistically make the kitchen larger, adding a little casual hang-out nook to it where a person can hang out and watch football whilst eating or cooking. We thought about doing that when we did our remodel last year, but it would've involved more cost than we wanted, and would've impinged too much on our very small back yard.

My other dream would be to add an observatory room to the top of the house as a fourth floor. Not only would it be a way cool place to hang out, but it would have extraordinary mountain views. Currently, our house is just very, very slightly too short to have mountain views.

**Donger** · 10-24-2007, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Your house has two kitchens? Is the second one the one where the live-in butler, chef, and maid prepare their own meals?

In my own house, I would realistically make the kitchen larger, adding a little casual hang-out nook to it where a person can hang out and watch football whilst eating or cooking. We thought about doing that when we did our remodel last year, but it would've involved more cost than we wanted, and would've impinged too much on our very small back yard.

My other dream would be to add an observatory room to the top of the house as a fourth floor. Not only would it be a way cool place to hang out, but it would have extraordinary mountain views. Currently, our house is just very, very slightly too short to have mountain views.

The view of Mt. Evans from our master bedroom is spectacular, RM. I take the little ones up on our roof during nice weather and bring out my scope.

10-24-2007, 08:50 PM

Heh. My house isn't extravagant. It's just under 3000 sq ft. The "snack kitchen" is very small. It's probably 8x10. Since we don't use it, I'd rather recover the space for something else. The three reasons I'm reluctant to do so are:
1. There's a cantilevered breakfast nook next to that kitchen that's going to look incredibly lonely if I got rid of the kitchen.
2. I hate to tear apart a perfectly good kitchen when I know good and well what those oak cabinets cost.
3. I've just finished remodeling my master bathroom and I can't justify re-remodeling it this early.

I'm guessing this project may be 5-10 years down the road.

View Poll Results: If you could add 150 square feet to your home, what would you add?
Enlarge your existing living room	1	2.50%
Enlarge your existing dining room	0	0%
Enlarge your existing kitchen	8	20.00%
Enlarge your existing master bedroom	0	0%
Enlarge some other existing bedroom	0	0%
Enlarge your existing family room/den/home office/game room	1	2.50%
Enlarge your existing main bathroom	1	2.50%
Enlarge the existing closet in your master bedroom to ginormous proportions	0	0%
Enlarge the existing bathroom in your master bedroom	1	2.50%
Enlarge your existing laundry room/service area	0	0%
Enlarge your existing garage by one car size	1	2.50%
Enlarge your existing unfinished basement/other storage area	0	0%
Enlarge some other existing room in your house	0	0%
Enlarge an existing workshop	0	0%
Add a den/family room/parlor	3	7.50%
Add a bedroom	0	0%
Add a bathroom	3	7.50%
Add a formal dining room	0	0%
Add a breakfast nook/casual dining area	0	0%
Add a ginormous walkin closet	0	0%
Add a home office/library/other “thinking” place	0	0%
Add a laundry room/service area	0	0%
Add an observatory/poker room/wine cellar/theater room/other specialized recreation room	6	15.00%
Add a one-car garage	1	2.50%
Add a secret hidden dungeon in the basement	2	5.00%
Add a storage area	1	2.50%
Add a workshop	1	2.50%
Add some other type of room	3	7.50%
I wouldn’t want another room even if it was free	3	7.50%
I'm homeless. I just want a room.	4	10.00%
Voters: 40. You may not vote on this poll

10-24-2007, 08:17 PM
Rain Man Seize life. Be an ermine. Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: My house Casino cash: $-762449 VARSITY	Adding to your living space Hypothetical: You're sitting in your living room watching reruns of MASH back when Colonel Blake was on, when you notice something disturbing. The outlet that the TV is plugged into has a white outlet cover on it. This is totally unacceptable. Every other outlet in the house is pale beige, not white. They don't match. So you turn off the TV and drive to Home Depot, and after three hours of trying to find outlet covers, during which time eight Home Depot associates ran when you approached them to ask, you find a new pale beige outlet cover. You walk to the front, get out your credit card, and observe that the self-check-out lines are all closed for no apparent reason. You get in line behind a guy with a whole bunch of big plywood sheets and a crying toddler, and say nothing as the toddler continually pushes the cart so that the plywood sheets hit you. After ten minutes, they close the register for reasons unknown, and you switch lines to another register where a woman is writing a check for the purchase of two screws and a pack of Trident. After she writes the check (first recording in her register and balancing her checkbook), the cashier takes the check to customer service, which takes it to the assistant manager, who takes it to the manager, who you recognize as being the guy who always smoked marijuana behind the gym when the two of you were in high school. He looks at it to see if the woman has a non-minority-sounding American name and then checks it and gives it back to the assistant manager, who gives it back to customer service, who gives it back to the cashier, who puts it in her drawer. At last, you step to the front of the counter. Suddenly, bells go off! Confetti and balloons and big pieces of plywood drop from the ceiling, and the corporate head of Home Depot and his gang of yes men descend upon you. As it turns out, you are Home Depot's one billionth dissatisfied customer! As a grand prize for this distinction, Home Depot will add 150 square feet to your home. What new square footage do you add? Rule: If you live in an apartment or condo, assume that you can still add this space. If you live with your parents, assume that you own the home and have had them put into a retirement village. Rule: You have to take the 150 square feet in one chunk. You can't add 25 square feet to six rooms. Rule: Don't think about resale. Think only about your own personal needs, wants, fears, hopes, dreams, aspirations, desperation, perspiration, and agitation. Poll coming as soon as the manager approves it. Last edited by Rain Man; 10-24-2007 at 08:29 PM..*
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10-24-2007, 08:19 PM	#2
Simplex3 MVP Join Date: Sep 2003 Casino cash: $10004900	Anyone else feel like a lab rat sometimes?
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10-24-2007, 08:21 PM	#3
kcfan82 Starter Join Date: May 2007 Location: Overland Park Casino cash: $10004900	Easy, I turn my basement into the 810 zone and name it the Chiefs Lounge.
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10-24-2007, 08:22 PM	#4
OnTheWarpath15 MVP Join Date: Sep 2005 Casino cash: $2021115	Home Depot sells Trident?
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10-24-2007, 08:22 PM	#5
mikeyis4dcats. Scarlett Johansson's boytoy Join Date: Nov 2006 Casino cash: $9555998	****...is this another of Redrum's PMs?
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10-24-2007, 08:25 PM	#7
Phobia Guest Casino cash: $	I'd definitely build a panic room.... with a comfortable toilet.
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10-24-2007, 08:27 PM	#8
Buehler445 Supporter Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Scott City KS Casino cash: $-1675266	I would build a game room. I want a pool table.
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10-24-2007, 08:37 PM	#10
JBucc MVP Join Date: Oct 2005 Casino cash: $10004952	I would love a huge bathroom. I want one that's bedroom sized where it's like a 20 foot walk from the tub to the toilet.
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10-24-2007, 08:39 PM	#11
Phobia Guest Casino cash: $	I wish it were multiple choice. Honestly, I'd enlarge the master bath/master closet/laundry room. For some reason my house has two kitchens. We call the smaller of the two the "snack kitchen". It's just behind our laundry room (which is essentially a hall closet with just enough room for a w/d), adjacent to the master closet and master bath. I'd like to eventually tear out the snack kitchen and remodel that entire area into a larger walkin closet, master bathroom, and utility room. Really, my only complaint about the master bathroom is the size of the shower. I'm anxiously awaiting the death of the jacuzzi tub so I can yank it out and install a massive shower. Did I provide too much information?
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10-24-2007, 08:44 PM	#12
unlurking MVP Join Date: Aug 2003 Casino cash: $7737309	I feel slighted by the fact that my next home (hopefully January) isn't an option here! You don't even have something close like a "back deck" that I could choose! I guess put me down for the "unknown" portion of the poll, because I'd like an extra 150 for my cockpit (cannot wait)... Attached Thumbnails
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10-24-2007, 08:50 PM	#15
Phobia Guest Casino cash: $	Heh. My house isn't extravagant. It's just under 3000 sq ft. The "snack kitchen" is very small. It's probably 8x10. Since we don't use it, I'd rather recover the space for something else. The three reasons I'm reluctant to do so are: 1. There's a cantilevered breakfast nook next to that kitchen that's going to look incredibly lonely if I got rid of the kitchen. 2. I hate to tear apart a perfectly good kitchen when I know good and well what those oak cabinets cost. 3. I've just finished remodeling my master bathroom and I can't justify re-remodeling it this early. I'm guessing this project may be 5-10 years down the road.
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