My husband, Todd, and I have been trying to figure out if we want to move or put money into remodeling our current home.
We have been going back and forth about it for about three years now. The reason that we want to move is because the house is old, and we do not have as much land as we would like. The reason we do not want to move is because we love our house, and we have many fond memories here. We have done a little bit of remodeling, but it has not been anything major. I forgot to mention that one other reason that we would like to move or remodel is because the house is very hard to heat in the winter. The winters here are brutally cold, and our house loses heat very quickly because of the old windows and lack of insulation. My husband and I have tried a couple different things to keep the house warmer. Last winter, we bought a propane fireplace, and we really regretted that. I do not think it would have been as bad if we would have bought it brand new, but we bought it used from someone on the internet. It honestly looked beautiful. It was a nice cherry wood color, and I was excited about it at first. We lit the fireplace for the first time and found out that it did not lite correctly. My husband replaced a part, and it helped. Whoever owned it before us put a sticker on the back part of the fireplace, so when the fireplace was on it covered our entire living room in black soot. Needless to say, we no longer have that propane fireplace.