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Nightmares about building

18 years ago

We're not going to start building for a few years, but I had my first "nightmare" about this am.

-the house was 2 days away from being done and move-in-ready

-for some reason we had never seen it or talked to the contractor

-it looked gorgeous but was really huge and there was blue shag carpeting everywhere

-the neighbors were cannibals!

Anyone else ever have a silly building nightmare?

Comments (6)

  • 18 years ago

    DH had a nightmare several months back...the windows on our West side (which is our "money shot") were too low, they only came up to his chest! He said he was really upset in the dream and I didn't see what the problem was! I assured him the windows would be high enough to see out of! I don't think we've slept enough lately to have any more nightmares!

  • 18 years ago

    Yeah, we've had nightmares. Thing is, they were real.

    Here is a link that might be useful: True Nightmares

  • 18 years ago

    I dream all the time about decorating or doing something in my new house. Those nights I'm wondering if I'm really sleeping and dreaming or awake and worrying. Oh, the stress of building.

    If I dreamnt about blue shag in my new house I think I'd die in my sleep . HA!!

  • 18 years ago

    I took the prescription CHANTIX to quit smoking and had crazy, off-the-wall unbelievable dreams every night for weeks! I wouldn't qualify any of them as nightmares but they were as crazy as any dreams could get. I remember one of them where I had to scale a skinny ledge of an Olympic size swimming pool to get to the front door of my new house. Of course I fell in at the last foot or so!

    By the way...the CHANTIX worked! (No, I'm not affiliated in any way but my doctor assures me she'd like me to do the commercials!)

  • 18 years ago

    Like susiesnowflake, my nightmares have been real. We are building currently (and have been for the past 19 months - no we're still not finished). Before we even started, it was a nightmare for 6 months.

    Latest nightmare? My cabinet guy came to install my seeded glass panels. My first comment? "Why are the seeds sideways?" Yes, they cut the seeded glass the wrong way. :::sigh::: We don't have the typical "seeded glass looks like raindrops on the glass" - our raindrops look like they are on a glass in hurricane-force winds. I guess appropriate for South Louisiana. (They're ordering more glass and will be changing this out.)

    This is actually a relatively minor nightmare compared to past ones like spending six months trying to "fix" the civil engineer's mistake in the lot numbers (our lot was assumed to have a house on it - and the engineer had the gall to die in midst of the subdivision planning and was taken over by ANOTHER civil engineer). Or the fact that we were supposed to tie into a sewer line that doesn't exist yet. Or having to build our lot up 36.5" only to find out after our slab was poured and walls were up that, not only did the surveyor have the elevation wrong (we're actually 24.5" higher than we need to be), but he also had the boundaries wrong and our house was 0.3" from the property border, not five feet. Thank heavens my MIL owned the lot next door and annexed us five feet.

    Rain delays of more than six months. Still can't pour the concrete driveway because of the rain. Joy. All this and interim financing, too.

  • 18 years ago

    We were looking for a house and/or land for many years before we finally bought our land in SC. I often had bizarre dreams, some scary,some not, about looking at houses. The most frightening one was a house (somewhere?) and as we were looking at it, there was a cross-country skier with a rifle looking in the windows. He came in after us, and like dummies we ran upstairs, becoming trapped. I woke up quite frightened. Oddly enough, since we bought the property, the weird dreams have ended. We'll see what crops up once we start building....