On 2/21/2013 7:10 AM, Existential Angst wrote:

With a hypocrisy worthy of the basest politician, I'm going thru the HD
kitchen design route (or at least the motions), mostly to get familiar with
the "process" of "new kitchening", not necessarily to actually let them do
it. My fillings are already hurting....

Snicker... When I redid the kitchen in our 1974 home - took it down to
bare floors and stud walls - we stopped at Big Orange to get some ideas
(perchance to buy) on cabinetry and what was available, price, etc.

We were politely informed by the kitchen lady (who apparently had been
transferred over to that department from the now-closed for the season
garden shop) that before they could take an order, THEIR "specialist"
would have to come out and measure the kitchen to "insure you have the
proper measurements and are ordering the right cabinets"g

I still wanted to see what the brands out there had to offer so I played
along since we were already in the store. Sitting down with her and her
catalogs and magic computer (that's how they make them experts, you know
- a computer program that will amaze/amuse even a kindergartner)it
quickly became apparent from her "deer in the headlights" look every
time I asked a question that she had, indeed, come in from the garden
center where she was more comfortable with plants since her IQ matched
theirs.

After about the fifth, "Er, ah..." we got up and left basically telling
her there was no way in hell we had any confidence in their product
knowledge and would be buying elsewhere... and did.


The Q is how to sift thru all of this.
Oh, yeah, a bit of a hard sell to the Wife.... LOL
Thoughts, idears, experiences?



This is the easy question, EZ. Haven't you seen that t-shirt? "If
Momma Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy!"

Don't sell her, let her take the lead and you just nod your head and
follow along. If nothing else, you'll have the satisfaction of saying
"I tried to tell you..." as she blames you for the problems with her new
kitchen.g