"WHAT WERE THEY THINKING ! ! ! !"
After living in my home for over 40 years, I have reached the conclusion that men design
houses, build houses, and have absolutely no idea whatsover how inconveniently they manage to arrange things for the 'little lady.'
Take kitchen cabinets, please! What's the point of cabinets above and behind the side-by-side refrigerator/freezer? Those cabinets are not reachable unless you stand on a kitchen chair or are 7' tall.
Over-the-stove cabinets? The bottom shelf is accessible, but you need kitchen tongs to pull things from the top shelf. And don't let that can of corn slip, bounce, and land on your big toe. That's pain!.
Do men think about furniture placement? Absolutely not. They put electric outlets where you don't need them and omit them from where they would be handy to have. And who told anybody to put the original phone jack in the middle of the kitchen wall, up 5' from the floor?.
Talk about windows in awkward places! I climb on a kitchen chair, scoot onto the kitchen counter, kneel on one knee, and put a foot in the sink to maneuver that storm window out. Reverse the process, clean storms, and repeat the mountain climbing to reinstall!.
Would a woman put in a 50" wide window when standard drapes or curtains are made for a 48" wide window? Of course not. Would a woman put a window in the corner of a wall? Definitely not..
One word of caution to my reader(s?): Always hire short handy men. Otherwise, you will have to stretch up and over the washer to get to anything that's wired into the circuit breaker box..
If my home is so horrible, why have I been here so long, you ask? I love my home, idiocyncrasies and all. Besides, it's paid for!.
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