Where Do You Stop?

This is a very large house for an elderly widow, and she knew it. She is at the end of a street with bush surrounding most of her house, so, naturally, she felt unsafe and wanted to put her house up for sale. She wanted some advice as to how she could get the most 'bang for her buck', without breaking her budget. For starters, she had louvered closet doors throughout the whole house that had been painted with a cheap latex paint over a hard and shiny varnish. The paint was peeling and the doors were looking awful. They had to be redone for sure, but then the entry and upper hall looked bad too. And the bathroom and master bedroom .... and.... it went on and on. The problem with doing a half job is that the newly painted areas look so good beside the old, and make the old look even worse than it really is. We did work here for quite a while and managed to perk it up quite a bit. I never did find out if she sold or for how much. She liked what we did so much that maybe she just installed new door locks and stayed there. We enjoyed our coffee breaks here, watching all the wildlife on the backside of the the house. Deer, squirrels, and many different kinds of birds. There was also a family of raccoons and possums that came by regularly, besides all the rabbits. We have those critters on our property too, minus the deer, and I think I don't appreciate them enough. I just see them as pests and rodents that eat my hazelnuts, fruit, and make garbage. When viewed from ones house, like the one above, in the green space, it is a different thing altogether.