HGTV - can I ever catch up?

It all started when the Property Brothers or maybe Chip and Joanna were looking into a renovation property - aka fixer upper - and the bathroom looked exactly like mine.  The new owners and the renovators stood around sighing and planning on how to "fix it".  That was my first clue that my house wasn't up to par.

Of course it was built in 1961 so has earned the right to be dated.  It's not like there haven't been a lot of changes through the years  - different windows in the living and dining rooms. Replacement windows in all the other rooms.  A greenhouse added on the front of the house and then replaced after that oak tree "incident" that sort of demolished the original one.

The walls dividing the kitchen from the hall and the dining room are gone too - and there is a neat custom breakfast bar between kitchen and dining room.  The cabinets were repainted and the counter top replaced.  How was I to know that I should have replaced those counters with something from a stone quarry!

I recently got a new sink - black granite - very undated I thought!  Maybe that will be enough to save my image.

A wood stove appeared and disappeared in the living room (too many chimney fires for my comfort level!).  Gone is the dark stained woodwork around all the doors and windows and gone are the green mini-blinds (what was I thinking?)

My older son even tore out a wall between two of the bedrooms so that my "master suite" is bigger - and then I find it's not a suite when there is no en suite.  Who knew?

I've scurried around and changed some of my "decor" and put away things I never use and tried to look a little more trendy.

All that being said and done I am still living in a dated house.

And I'm not even going to mention the "landscaping" outside!  The very best that can be said about it is that it's eclectic - which is short for unplanned and it just happened that way and so there are cucumbers growing next to the lavender?  Deal with it!

My lawn is mostly green unless it gets tall enough so it blooms - at which time it becomes painfully obvious that it's mostly anything but grass.  Hey, just the other day I read something about dandelions being the first flowers for the bees in the spring so I'm really being environmentally active - not too lazy to buy lawn treatments to ensure nothing but grass grows.

I actually don't see "dated" when I look around my house - probably because I think of it as a home.  I know that when I'm no longer living in it someone will buy it, put it through a chipper and build some great big testament to updated-ness on the site.  I wish them the best of luck and hope that they can look back on 50 years in their house and know it was a real home!