Everyone loves a good game of Would You Rather? right?!! (If only to see how strangely morbid the people that you know are.) I was hanging out with my best friend Brem and asking him Would You Rather? questions.
Surprisingly he didn’t answer. Babies just don’t get it.
So of course I thought to ask my other best friends and see what you think!
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the ultimate game of Would You Rather? Take a few minutes to answer the questions and next week I’ll share the responses! Also, if you have an awesome Would You Rather? question that is related to Home or DIY, leave it in the comments below, my favorite will win one of my must have tools, a DeWalt Jig Saw!!
I love the would you rather never have to shower or never do laundry- obviously laundry! Showering is enjoyable and takes only five minutes. Laundry is terrible and takes forever. i am folding laundry now, btw.
Would you rather to allow a random person you don’t know decorate your home or your great grandma?
I would change great grandma to mother-in-law 🙂 much tougher call!
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Amazing!!!!
Love this game! I live in a tiny apartment and constantly debate this question:
Would you rather use your limited space for a miter saw or a sewing machine?
Truthfully I’d rather have the miter saw, but a tiny rented apartment where you can’t change anything permanently makes it hard to justify a miter saw (where would I use it?), so I have a sewing machine.
It’s easier to rent a miter saw.
Would you rather your toddler make the design decisions for your home or your dog?
My dog! He wants things as cozy I do!
Would you rather go over budget or over your time estimate? Because we all ask ourselves this question at some point! lol
Such a good question. An eternal one.
uhhhhh…this quiz is sexist! lol (see question 23)
Would you rather never have to find a stud again, or never have to fill a hole in your drywall again?
Hahah SO SORRY LUCAS! 94% of my readers are women! Buuuut, I did say ladies and gentleman in the post so I feel like I get 1/2 a point for that. 😉
All good! I love your blog so I don’t feel bad about being in the 6%. I have a 6′ wide version of your dowel art project hanging on our living room wall. Keep the good ideas coming! Thanks!
Would you rather build a home from scratch on your dream lot (incredible views/private etc) or renovate a fixer for less on a busy/loud street?
Love the idea, but I would recommend switching it up a bit…
Would you rather build a home from scratch on a busy/loud street or renovate a fixer on your dream lot (incredible views/private etc)?
Would you rather live next to your in laws in your dream home or live a safe distance from your in laws in a major fixer upper? Haha!
Loved those questions – so good! My question is…would you rather have a large yard with no flat space, only hills OR have a small, but flat and usable yard?
Would you rather renovate a flip or never have to work on your own house again?
Would you rather strip paint off an awesome dresser in order to stain it and love it, or just paint over it and only like it.
Would you rather build, sand and finish a dining table and buy new chairs or reupholster, finish used chairs and buy a new table?
This is so much fun!!! Would you rather going thrifting every week but never being able to buy anything ever again OR not having a choice and being forced to take home all those “not sure lemme google this real quick” items
Would you rather have a small balcony in the city, or a large wrap around porch in the country?
I love your would you rather questions. I probably thought a little too hard on some of them! ha ha so many touch choices!
Would you rather have to DIY everything in your house for $50 and under OR never get to do anything original ever again and only be able to copy everyone else’s designs.
Would you rather get 10 splinters under your fingernails or drywall the whole basement…by yourself?
How long are the splinters? And do I have to tape and texture, too. 😉
Would you rather constantly paint the walls or just wait until the kids move out?
Would you rather a bright, beachy abode right on the ocean or a cozy mountain retreat?
Would you rather recieve a $200 gift card to X store or $100 cash? I always have this dilemma with my in-laws who love to give gift cards. I would much rather find the perfect thing in a random place and find a way to make my dollar go farther 🙂
Haha, loved these questions! How ’bout this one:
Would you rather cover every square inch of your walls with artwork and knicknacks, or not be able to hang a single thing?
Would you rather only own a washing machine or only own a dryer?
Would you rather share a mansion with your high school nemesis or a studio apartment with your BFF?
Ok! I have one!
Would you rather
Have Ty Pennington from Extreme Home Makeover go “cactus crazy” on your house, i.e. cactus design wallpaper, cactus-print couches, cactus bedspread, cactus shower curtains, cactus appliances (whatever those are), pretty much cactus mailbox..
Or live in a mini, all white, 1 bedroom, farmhouse, in the middle of the Chicago , designed by Joanna Gaines?
I loved this. You should make graphics like Young House Love does.
Would you rather paint or stain vintage wood furniture?
Would you rather live in an amazing house in an amazing neighborhood with your evil MIL, or would you rather live in a small fixer upper in the same city?
Would you rather glaze all of your furniture or have all flushmount (boob) lights?
WOULD YOU RATHER ///
have to use a table saw for all your fine cuts, while donuts rain from the ceiling OR a jigsaw to cut all your lumber, while chocolate bars sprout up from the ground?
Would you rather have THE perfect looking vintage couch but it smells funny, or a generic microfiber couch (you know, the ones with the personality of a baked potato) that has no offending odor?
Oh to never do laundry again… would be happy to have my house in a constant state of construction rather than never be able to change a thing! Style is an evolution, I couldn’t imagine having one paint color for eternity.
Without being able to change either, would you rather live with bad wallpaper or deal with your walls having BAD paint flashing?
Would you rather:
– make a lamp out of candy?
– make a closet door out of chocolate? (Because it’s the cleanest thing in the house I could think of that’s in your bedroom so you can close the door and block out the world/your kids and just eat the hell out of your closet door)
Can you guess which one I’d pick…?
Would you rather be forced to use primitive tools for ALL your projects (aka no power tools), OR only be allowed ONE power tool to use for the rest of your life.
(I LOVE these games!)
Would you rather only buy/find items for your home that your husband likes ? Or fight with him and buy what you like?
Would you rather have the love of your life or your dream job?
Would you have a voice that sounds like you’ve been breathing helium, or have a cold fish handshake?
Would you rather be forced to use a color scheme that is based on a haunted house or one from a daycare?
Haunted house, hands down!
Would you rather spend your extra money on home improvements / decoration or vacations with your favorite people?
Would you rather have an awesome interior or have an awesome exterior/yard?
Gees! Such tough questions!! I was looking for “C: None of the above” on quite a few. Also love SO MANY of the questions in the comments!! What smart (& evil!) followers you have. 😉
Would you rather not have a dishwasher or not have a microwave?
Would you rather live in the perfect house or the perfect neighborhood?
Would you rather have a free babysitter anytime you needed to do a diy project or an unlimited 50 percent discount on all of your diy supplies and decor?
Would you rather have toys that put themselves away or dishes that did themselves?
Would you rather have terribly ugly furniture forever, or no furniture?
Would you rather … borrow the tools you need to save space or have all the tools you need packed into a garage?
Would you rather read Vintage Revivals or clean your house? (pretty obvious what I would rather)
I have both bad carpet and bad linoleum from the 50’s! Orange shag carpet that is so dirty it turns my feet black and black and white sparkly linoleum with tape marks and pieces missing. I think a better question for me to ask myself is, “would I rather replace the carpet second or the linoleum second?”
Would you rather the baby slept through the night or took a long nap?
That was HARD!! At least some of them…that’s what I hate about that game: some there just isn’t a winner. 🙂 would you rather have only hand tools, but every hand tool you can think of, or only have one power tool? Ok, you can have two.
I too have both bad carpet and bad linoleum (sob, sob).
Would you rather have your impeccably (and possibly expensively) furnished home slowly destroyed by your small children, OR keep your saggy hand-me-down and stained dumpster-dived furniture so you don’t care what the little monsters do?
(This is actually my real-life conundrum)
would you rather have a house without electricity or without plumbing?
Would you rather have baby blue formic on all your counter tops or baby blue carpet throughout your house?
This was the awesomeness in our house when we moved in. Plus baby blue window valances and pink blinds…my dream come true!
Would you rather get a complete makeover of just one room in your house or your entire yard?
Would you rather dig your additions foundation during an epic 2 week long rain storm or roof it during a wind storm with 60 mph gusts?
Dont ask…?
I have so many would-you-rathers from my current DIY renovation:
would you rather renovate your kitchen or master bath?
would you rather uncover hardwood floors or a secret room?
would you rather deal with problems in the wiring or problems in the roof?
would you rather have one of those fancy faucets that dispenses boiling water or one of those fancy wine fridges?
Would you rather live across the street from a craft store or hardware store ?
Would you rather have the closet of your dreams or the outdoor backyard of your children dreams?
Would you rather have a big front porch or a big backyard?
Would you rather live near a main road with traffic noise but a yard AND privacy OR in a quiet street glued to your neighbor? ( same as aging would you rather hear cars or hear your neighbors)
would you rather have a permanent cat brothel outside your bedroom window or intricate subway system throughout your yard, compliments of a gopher?
Would you rather decorate the house of the future or decorate a house to honor the past?
There were some pretty funny would you rathers in your questions!
Would you rather have thet worst neighbors in your dream home? Or would you rather live live in the country with no neighbors in a fixer upper?
Ha please don’t mind my smart phone errors, I believe it’s come to the conclusion that it is smarter than I am. :/
Would you rather….add a second floor to your existing house, free of charge and labor, but ONLY if a complete drunk stranger made all the construction/layout decisions and you could NEVER make any changes to this floor…or…have a huge built in backyard pool that you got to personally design BUT had to pay for and build yourself???
Even I don’t know how I’d answer this one – *so fingers crossed* hope that means it’s a winner 🙂
Would you rather only be able to buy things in-store (stores you can drive to) or only be able to order online (sight unseen)?
Would you rather have money to finish infinite projects or have infinite time to DIY each step? This is the constant problem in our house. We either have money or time and rarely both.
Would you rather rent an apartment that you can afford on your own or buy your dream house that you would need a roommate in order to afford?
I have a personal favorite “Would You Rather”, not remotely DIY-related, but equally as relevant.
Or not.
Would you rather chew the same piece of gum for the rest of your life, or chew a piece of poo-flavored gum for an hour?
*Hint: There IS a correct answer.
Would you rather invest money in a design idea you love or use what you have for free for an idea that’s so-so? Story of my life most days…cheap but full of ideas 🙂
Would you rather have knives you never had to sharpen or a productive vegetable/fruit garden that doesn’t need to be tended to?
Would you rather live out of the city with a bigger landscaped yard that needs upkeep and has a good view, or in the city with no yard but near a lot of parks and other things to do without a good view?
Would you rather have a finished basement, or a finished second level?
Would you rather have a finished in-home studio with a lot of built-in storage, or a finished second garage stall workshop?
Would you rather live in a place near a lot of wildlife, or a place near a lot of wild nightlife?
Would you rather have a husband with his own reno/ decor ideas to contribute OR have a husband who has zero opinions? I go back and forth with this all the time!!
Would you rather have a husband that questioned every decision you were making on the renovation (to the most annoying point possible) but loved the outcome in the end or would you rather have a husband that shut his mouth through the whole reno and then wasn’t a huge fan of the outcome?
Would you rather always have to leave 5% of a project unfinished, or always forget something at the store so you couldn’t start a project?
Would you rather live in a beige box (called a bunk) in an rv and not touch is because you may want to use your allowance on something else and don’t want your mother to get anxious about you painting OR go for it no matter what?
P S I loved this?
Hardest question for me: Would you rather never have to do laundry again or take a shower again? Both options are such a pain in the butt and take too much time! Maybe some people are 5 minute shower takers.. buy not me! 15 minutes minimum when you have a mop of hair! In the end I picked laundry because it takes longer and is never ending 🙂
Would you rather your only bathroom undergo an unexpectedly delayed renovation or your kitchen?
Would you rather make immediate, inexpensive fixes now, only to redo them in a few years, or wait a few years to really learn a space, and then make permanent lasting changes?
If you could only have one, would you rather own a compound miter saw or a kreg pocket hole jig kit??
I want both but have to start somewhere…so this is actually a decision I’m trying to make 😉
would you rather:
have a one room GIANT dingy loft to fix up and live in OR have a house full of beautiful small rooms with architectural details to fix up and live in? I know what I’d pick!
HAHA! This was so much fun. Would you rather live with continue sanding dust all over your house (let’s be honest, this has happened to all of us DIYers, right?) or never be able to vacuum again?
would you rather have squeaky floors with perfect carpet OR
not squeaky floors with nasty carpet?
It’s been 17 days since your last post. Many professional bloggers use an editorial calendar to plan out content and posts to ensure their blogs are updated timely and keep their readers/followers actively engaged. 17 days is a long time between posts. Maybe you fell down a mine shaft and are waiting to be rescued.
As someone who has a blog, sometimes you just get busy. There’s life, kids and lots of other things that people do besides diy or whatever you post about. Maybe it’s just because I’m new to writing, but Mandi posts WAY cooler content WAY more often than I do. I imagine she’s trying, and things are just busy.
P.S. If you did fall down a mine shaft though, I hope You’re OK ?
Would you rather keep up with a garden (tilling/sowing/planting/bugs!/weeding/watering/harvesting/or buy veggies/fruit from the grocery store?