Manufactured Home Blues

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yeah... i really do want ALL wood cabnets
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i want to feel spoiled :)lol
i have the paint to paint the walls im taking mirrors down (hate the HUGE mirrors in here) and putting smaller medican mirrors up
im painting one room at a time
im kinda scared of color LOL!!!
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always thinking what if i dont like it.
OH GOODNESS AND LIGHTSWICHES i have a few that snap crackle pop when i turn them off and on THAT is scary
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aww country rooster i so need to take a look. we took out the toilets and foucets also
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i JUST changed the outside light and painted omg it look sooooo better!!
its amazing what a fresh coat of pain and a brand new light does to your home
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My advice?
Who flippin cares what they say about you?
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Are people like that even worth stressing over?
 
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Basically there is a rather large difference between a mobile home, and a manufactured home. A mobile home had wheels, and a manufactured home doesn't. The quality of manufacture homes is much better than the older mobile homes ever were. When I was a young teen our family lived in a single wide mobile home. The walls were just paneling. You could hear everything in that trailer. There were 7 of us living in a 12' x 56' space. I am happy that I don't need to live in a a mobile home, but I would consider a Manufactured home. The MH's have drywall, and are better insulated than the old Mobiles. My stick framed home came with fake kitchen cabinets. I am hoping that will be the next big project. I would really love for my Father in Law to build me custom cabinets.

So just because you are living in a Manufactured home that is on a foundation, doesn't mean that your home is somehow of a lessor quality than my stick framed house. I would rather be living in a home on acreage, than stuck here in a sub-division.
 
I have lived in mobile homes, stick built homes, shingle homes, brick homes, apts and condos. We just in the last few years moved out of our paid condo into a modular home on acreage specificly because it was safer in a tornado/hurricane/flood/apocalypse.
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I have my chickens, one neighbor has horses and another has goats. A lake with fish is about 2 miles away and there is more wildlife ie. deer on my property than we could ever eat. My project for the coming year is planting fruit and pecan trees along with raised gardens for canning. Our modular home has a 3 sided basement that is cinder block stuccoed over with plenty of room for a freezer and canned goods. There is a bath, pullout bed, microwave and fridge down there that can be run on generator, along with a laundry. Anything happens, we're ready. The things I didn't like about the MH were the thinness of the walls, and the shaking when the washer went into spin. I would find a nearby shelter such as a church or school to go to for emergencies. A MH is still something to be proud of ...it is all yours. I never lived anywhere thatg it wasn't in better condition when I moved out and I always planted flowers and bushes to make it pretty. Be proud and enjoy ur home.
 
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yeah... i really do want ALL wood cabnets
tongue.png
i want to feel spoiled :)lol
i have the paint to paint the walls im taking mirrors down (hate the HUGE mirrors in here) and putting smaller medican mirrors up
im painting one room at a time
im kinda scared of color LOL!!!
lau.gif
always thinking what if i dont like it.
OH GOODNESS AND LIGHTSWICHES i have a few that snap crackle pop when i turn them off and on THAT is scary
sad.png

aww country rooster i so need to take a look. we took out the toilets and foucets also
smile.png
i JUST changed the outside light and painted omg it look sooooo better!!
its amazing what a fresh coat of pain and a brand new light does to your home
smile.png


I think it is so much fun to paint the house. The previous owner of my house had the ugliest wall paper I have ever seen.
She was an older lady that was stuck in the 70's as far as decor was concerned. With every brush stroke that ugly paper
was going away. It was so nice to have it gone when I was done.

My dad is an electrician so he changed all the light switches for us and put in new outlets too. He was very impressed with the
wiring in the house, he said that it was well done, I am sure that you house is well wired too.

Do you want me to post some pics of my kitchen for you so you can see what I did to make the country rooster theme
come alive? Just let me know if you are interested.
 
But why be bothered?

When we were looking around at homes recently... a couple were mobiles, and the property we liked best had a mobile that was so nice inside and large, granite countertops, tile floors, fireplace, with big added porch and rear barbecue area, all landscaped... we didn't know the difference until the realtor lady told us.

A house is a house... as long as it's not on the sand
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It's your home. Enjoy it. Dress it up, just as you would a house attached to it's foundation. Still made of the same building materials
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Congratulations on getting your own place! It looks like you have a manufactured home... the paneling, trim and style give it away, but who cares, it's home!
 
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Nope, my house is nothing like the trailers that I saw on the website. Those pics are really funny.
Some of those pics are just down right creative.

Thanks for the post.
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