amyole Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Well, I have read how the dh talks to you... The other day I realized I was starting to talk to the dh. Guess it's good to have 2-way communication! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa_F Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Yep, two-way conversations with your houses are a good thing..... Unless you're arguing! I spent most of yesterday arguing with the teddy bear shop I'm working on. The exterior is painted in a pale mauve with antique ivory trim. The interior walls are painted antique ivory and the wood flooring is done in dark chestnut. So I planned to stain the door of the shop in dark chestnut. And that's where the argument started. Me: "You will look absolutely perfect with a front door stained to match the interior floors" Shop: "No I won't. The door should be painted" Me: "No, paint will look all wrong - you only have two colors on the exterior - I don't want to throw a third color into the mix" Shop: "If you stain me I'll look stupid" Me: "Don't be silly, you will look elegant. Now shut up while I stain the door" Shop: "You'll be sorry..." Hours later, looking at the stained front door: Me: "Wow, this looks really awful, not what I had pictured at all" Shop: "I told you" Me: "Shut up, I'll paint you tomorrow" Shop: "Now can we talk about that stained bookcase you plan to put inside?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_the_haunted Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 LOL Yes, arguing with the house is futile. If you don't do what it wants you're both in for some trouble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmgervais Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Guess I should be glad that I listened to my Glencroft (my first dh) and now all the other ones, even those I don't have yet but want to get, are quietly starting to talk and decide how they want to be incorporated into my small town! This town is going to take years to build, I think! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLyn M. Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 My Tudor-y Sugarplum has demanded to have beams put in the first floor ceiling..... and she's right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uppitycats Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Yes, when the houses get to talking to you, they do have a mind of their own, and you'd best pay attention! My Brimble Mercantile was to be a bookstore/library. It looks really nice as a bar with gentleman's quarters upstairs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pin1056 Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Lisa....funny thing is...i was picturing the convo in my head....we all need serious 'help' on this forum!!! but its so much fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chesterfieldzoo Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Mine must all be female.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Isn't it funny how we "humanize" our DH's?! My BH and I are still having arguments over the curtins/drapes/festoons and pelmet in the dining room. I wantpale green silk with cream picot trim and it is insisting on cream silk with pale green picot trim.....and you know I think the house is winning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grynche Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Primrose told me yesterday that wallpaper would make her walls itch. She wanted paint, not the craft kind which would give her a rash, but real house paint, specifically the custom-mixed off-white hiding behind several other quarts on the Reject Shelf. The sounds she made as I brushed on the paint were positively indecent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmesue Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 LOL, I own a couple of cousins to your house!! They demanded, and totally enjoyed their paint jobs!! The BH only allowed me to paper but the smallest part of his dinningroom! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherry Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 It's not a problem until someone hears only your part of the conversation. Especially if you are laying in bed, talking to the house in the corner of the room, at night when DH is around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 It's not a problem until someone hears only your part of the conversation. Especially if you are laying in bed, talking to the house in the corner of the room, at night when DH is around. LOL, been there done that! But these days DH knows the topics as well and often offers a thought or two as well in the chatter back and forth Hugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmesue Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Ya, my DH "hears" them too, especially if I'm bugging him when he's watching t.v. LOL He'll say: Shhh, listen, "I hear the Gloucester calling, she's upset, 'cause you haven't sanded her stairs yet", "AND SHE DOESN'T LIKE THE FLOORING YOU PICKED OUT FOR HER KITCHEN EITHER!" ....(SHE DIDN'T TELL ME, THAT! WE'LL HAVE TO DISCUSS IT, ONE ON ONE) as he cups his ear in his hand, LOL or he'll make up some bedtime story about the folks living in the Strawberry or BH, and what they are saying or doing. It's fun, that he joins in my nuttiness! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC865PB Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 My fairfield poked at me , somehow I didn't mind . I convinced her that her floor needed to be covered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLyn M. Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Last night after fiddling around with my Tudor-y Sugarplum and slapping on some more shingles,I decided to watch some TV.All of a sudden I heard a voice: "hey,LLyn! I need a door upstairs" I knew exactly where the voice came from.My Spring Fling '09-The Vicarage- has decided it needs a little porch off the upstairs bedroom.Well, I got out my new little saw,(from my new little kit) and sawed an area for a door.The door and some of the sides to the porch will probably be cardboard but I think it will be cute.I have stone flooring to use and I'll get a bench and some plants and my Vicar will be thrilled.And yes, I'll send pix when I have more than a lovely opening in a wall to show. LOL! ;) I tell you I heard that voice loud and clear...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havanaholly Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 The kits have better ideas than we do how they want to look and what they want to be, and what will make one particular Sugarplum kit outstanding won't work on a second one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gezgee Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 :Jumpy: OMG i have heard it all now conversation with your DH, if i ever think my DH talks to me i will be at the hospital says let me in :laughbounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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