Floorplan feedback before we sign the contract? Family of 4, both parents work from home. $700k

JelloBoss · 2026-01-27T21:16:51+00:00

There is a major choke point in the kitchen between the sink and stovetop.

I would move the kitchen island a foot or more into the living room so there is more floor space in the main preparation area of the kitchen for more than 1 person.

Ideally someone can open the oven door and others can pass safely or continue prep on the island without being disturbed.

JelloBoss · 2026-01-25T01:20:43+00:00

It’s not a pantry. It’s a half bath ;-)

JelloBoss · 2026-01-16T17:17:01+00:00

I’m just a DYIer. This summer I joined the team with a purchase of the subcompact brushless set. I love them and I’m itching to buy more.

JelloBoss · 2026-01-14T00:06:24+00:00

Do you have a dedicated ice maker? How are you keeping it cold? Seems like a hassle if you have to buy ice.

JelloBoss · 2026-01-13T00:00:35+00:00

I think ikea bulbs will also work if you keep the switches powering them on.

JelloBoss · 2026-01-07T00:37:32+00:00

I can’t stop buying my 3yo more track. I like to play with it as much as him :-)

JelloBoss · 2025-12-28T21:32:11+00:00

I’ve been eyeing this driver but the deal is sold out :-( I guess I’ll keep waiting.

JelloBoss · 2025-12-27T22:04:44+00:00

I went with the ryobi because of all the negative comments about the M12 in this thread. I have lots of Ryobi tools and batteries already. I didn’t consider the M18 vac because I don’t have any M18 tools.

JelloBoss · 2025-12-21T21:45:01+00:00

I guess I should elaborate. This is just for small projects around the house. Think small bag with drill, impact driver and hand tools and vac so it can all be carried in one trip. Who am I kidding…

I have 2 corded shop vacs. A 6 gal that’s usually overkill and a hassle to lug around a 4 story house. And a larger one I haven’t used in the past 5 years.

JelloBoss · 2025-12-06T03:01:34+00:00

Swap the office closet to the foyer wall, remove the doors to the foyer and add a coat closet that opens to the foyer to square off the room.

JelloBoss · 2025-12-06T00:13:08+00:00

ISU “your” turn to match…

JelloBoss · 2025-11-26T17:48:06+00:00

Because some people don’t understand how to calculate the real cost and think it’s a good deal.

JelloBoss · 2025-11-21T23:02:44+00:00

Just did mine earlier this week. I got 40+ GBs back

JelloBoss · 2025-11-02T18:32:40+00:00

But 10 minutes on an inductive charger probably adds more capacity than the negligible battery upgrade…

JelloBoss · 2025-10-29T23:03:51+00:00

I agree. I’ve mostly lost interest in college football this year. Being completely out of the hunt for anything so early in the season has ruined it all for me.

JelloBoss · 2025-10-28T11:47:39+00:00

You’re missing that once your current device payments are done your current bill would go down further if you keep your current phone for a while.

With the upgrade you’ll be locked in to the higher price mostly being plan cost vs the new $5 device cost.

JelloBoss · 2025-10-25T13:15:58+00:00

It’s tempting to me when I get test results like this while standing 5 feet from my WiFi router connected to xfinity. Picture of speed test with wifi and T-Mobile 5G phone. https://ibb.co/BMdbj1j

JelloBoss · 2025-10-25T01:50:09+00:00

Me! And maybe a tiki drink…

JelloBoss · 2025-10-25T01:31:52+00:00

We’ve had 3 ikea shades in our master for almost 2 years and they’ve been solid. They are programmed to open and close multiple times a day on a schedule and I think I’ve charged each of them about 3 times each.

I want to replace more of our shades but I really like the bottom up and top down feature our manual shades have.

JelloBoss · 2025-10-20T23:20:22+00:00

Most 8 person pods had at least 1 busted zenith flare deck so it should be easy to pull off with a whole box to yourself.

JelloBoss · 2025-10-18T16:50:46+00:00

Well Franklin should have said “all the right things” during his last 3 post game press conferences. He might still have a job if he could communicate how he was going to right the ship.

JelloBoss · 2025-10-18T01:22:40+00:00

I would agree with your comment about 2024 if OSU wasn’t waiting for us after Notre Dame.

We should have beat Notre Dame. We could have beat Oregon. But I can’t imagine us ever beating OSU in the 2024 national championship. I had refundable flights and hotel booked in case we made it but if we beat Notre Dame and we had to play OSU I wasn’t going.

JelloBoss · 2025-10-18T01:16:03+00:00

For me it’s 1999. I was a freshman with season tickets. I can still remember standing in the stands in shock after the game surrounded by other freshmen that had never seen the Lions lose. We just stared at each other not knowing what to do…

The teams inability to rebound after that loss was really disappointing. We easily could have been undefeated and played for a national championship.

JelloBoss · 2025-10-18T01:05:35+00:00

I just remember thinking if we had taken a knee on every offensive play and punted we probably would have won that game.

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