Ok. I decided to start a single thread for asking Languish questions on stuff. Mods, feel free to merge my other threads into this one.
The current question is this. As you probably know, I bought a flat in December. Since then I did not have time to start decorating/renovating it (it is a fresh flat in a freshly built building). Now that I am almost done with having a plan for the flat from my architect/interior decorator, I can start renovating.
But if I do it now, and do it fast, it will cost me about 20-30% of my savings. With the world markets climate being what it is (which more or less directly affects my work, since I do a lot of foreign investment M&A), I am wondering if I should wait with it until the situation clears up a bit (probably until spring) or just go ahead and do it?
Pros of waiting: I do not blow my savings away in case things go really bad.
Pros of doing it now: I have to pay all kinds of administrative fees for my new flat anyway, so this is wasted money while it stands empty. If I move to my new flat, I could rent out my old one, e.g. for a small office, so this could be extra cash. Plus it's of course good for my morale to have a new flat. :P
This is not acceptable. A thread per subjects!
DIY is the solution. You'll valuable skill for when the revolution comes too.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 30, 2011, 10:02:56 AM
This is not acceptable. A thread per subjects!
DIY is the solution. You'll valuable skill for when the revolution comes too.
Nah. Besides, the work cost is probably going to be a small portion of the overal costs of getting materials, furniture and stuff.
Is living while it's not fully decorated in any way acceptable?
#richpeopleproblems #danellisproblems
Why would you need to renovate it if it is freshly built? :huh:
Quote from: Zanza on September 30, 2011, 10:12:45 AM
Why would you need to renovate it if it is freshly built? :huh:
Maybe "renovate" is a bad word. It is a "raw" flat, with only concrete floors, white walls etc. You need to paint walls, install floors, install stuff like sinks, showers, kitchen and whatnot.
You need to follow up on all your threads or we'll lose interest. For example, I want to know about your dinner party and what you ended up serving with what and to whom and whether it earned yo a blow job.
Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 10:14:06 AM
Quote from: Zanza on September 30, 2011, 10:12:45 AM
Why would you need to renovate it if it is freshly built? :huh:
Maybe "renovate" is a bad word. It is a "raw" flat, with only concrete floors, white walls etc. You need to paint walls, install floors, install stuff like sinks, showers, kitchen and whatnot.
So builder didn't build you a flat, he just gave you an empty room. I see.
Quote from: Grey Fox on September 30, 2011, 10:19:00 AM
Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 10:14:06 AM
Quote from: Zanza on September 30, 2011, 10:12:45 AM
Why would you need to renovate it if it is freshly built? :huh:
Maybe "renovate" is a bad word. It is a "raw" flat, with only concrete floors, white walls etc. You need to paint walls, install floors, install stuff like sinks, showers, kitchen and whatnot.
So builder didn't build you a flat, he just gave you an empty room. I see.
:huh:
Do it now while it's still empty. If you try and paint / decorate while you live there it'll either be an enormous pain, or you'll just never get around to it.
Date a builder.
Also I echo GF's puzzlement, even new flats are usually finished and have bathrooms and kitchens installed.
Quote from: Barrister on September 30, 2011, 10:20:15 AM
Do it now while it's still empty. If you try and paint / decorate while you live there it'll either be an enormous pain, or you'll just never get around to it.
That's NOT the question. :D
The question is should I decorate now or wait until spring - in both cases I wouldn't move in until I decorated it.
What's all this then?
Quote from: Brazen on September 30, 2011, 10:20:45 AM
Date a builder.
Also I echo GF's puzzlement, even new flats are usually finished and have bathrooms and kitchens installed.
That's not the standard here. Plus how are you supposed to decorate if you have these already installed?
So you would wait on an empty condo? That doesn't make any sense to me...
Can't you afford to pay someone to make these kind of decisions for you?
Just out of interest, do Languish's responses ever change your opinions or are we all wasting our typing fingers? If you haven't got yourself a real bow tie yet or revised your cheese/fortified wine plans I will be very cross.
Spend the money; then if things get really bad you will have a comfortable flat to sit them out in.
Do whatever the gay podcast of the week says to do.
Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 10:24:02 AM
Quote from: Brazen on September 30, 2011, 10:20:45 AM
Date a builder.
Also I echo GF's puzzlement, even new flats are usually finished and have bathrooms and kitchens installed.
That's not the standard here. Plus how are you supposed to decorate if you have these already installed?
Jesus Christ. Poland really is retarded.
Quote from: Gups on September 30, 2011, 10:26:04 AM
Can't you afford to pay someone to make these kind of decisions for you?
He has many such expensive advisors. Surely you know that by now. The problem is each of them gives him a different answer to this question even though each advisor is more expensive than the last.
Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 10:14:06 AM
Quote from: Zanza on September 30, 2011, 10:12:45 AM
Why would you need to renovate it if it is freshly built? :huh:
Maybe "renovate" is a bad word. It is a "raw" flat, with only concrete floors, white walls etc. You need to paint walls, install floors, install stuff like sinks, showers, kitchen and whatnot.
Well role up the sleves of one of your worn out shirts and get crakkin'!
Quote from: Habsburg on September 30, 2011, 04:11:06 PM
Well role up the sleves of one of your worn out shirts and get crakkin'!
Kraken?
Quote from: The Brain on September 30, 2011, 12:26:17 PM
Quote from: Martinus on September 30, 2011, 10:24:02 AM
Quote from: Brazen on September 30, 2011, 10:20:45 AM
Date a builder.
Also I echo GF's puzzlement, even new flats are usually finished and have bathrooms and kitchens installed.
That's not the standard here. Plus how are you supposed to decorate if you have these already installed?
Jesus Christ. Poland really is retarded.
it usually is a standard, unless you're Marty :rolleyes:
Quote from: PDH on September 30, 2011, 04:21:11 PM
Quote from: Habsburg on September 30, 2011, 04:11:06 PM
Well role up the sleves of one of your worn out shirts and get crakkin'!
Kraken?
Marti has one of those. His next thread will ask whether the Kraken will get along with his dog while both are left in his unrenovated aparment for 11+ hours.
Quote from: Brazen on September 30, 2011, 10:31:21 AM
Just out of interest, do Languish's responses ever change your opinions or are we all wasting our typing fingers? If you haven't got yourself a real bow tie yet or revised your cheese/fortified wine plans I will be very cross.
:lol:
I was thinking something similar. :blush:
For decorating advice, ask Languish' resident homos.
Languish homos are more interested in war games than decorating, I wouldn't trust them.
Quote from: Brazen on September 30, 2011, 10:31:21 AM
Just out of interest, do Languish's responses ever change your opinions or are we all wasting our typing fingers? If you haven't got yourself a real bow tie yet or revised your cheese/fortified wine plans I will be very cross.
The answer is complex, I guess. :P
I won't be swayed by a majority opinion per se, but I sometimes get swayed by insightful comments presenting the issue from a new angle I haven't considered.
Plagiarist.