$600 for 5 windows installed, sounds cheaper than regular wood sills

Marble saddles are typically $10 each, uninstalled, from HD/Lowes. At least they were last year when I made my purchase. I believe that was the 4x36-inch size. Surely you mean the installed price is $100.

Or more likely your finger jiggled when you were typing, and an extra zero was entered in error.

solid marble is not solid marble?

i think you chose an unfortunate example. when you buy a burger for $23 a lot of that money is going to overhead/ambience not into the cost of the beef.

and by the way, macdonald's hamburgers start at $1 not $4.

I would never be able to tell the difference. I have HD marble countertops in my kitchen, I selected marble with a far amount of grey veining, and I couldn't be more pleased.

I always think it's wise to save money where you can, and this seems to be one of those areas. Some people like spending $100k on a relatively simple renovation. I don't.

This is the ridiculous and empty "value" proposition, based on the marketing fallacy that "you get what you pay for" and somehow receive "quality" ... all quoted phrases are well-established marketing terms.

It's all a big (and mostly successful) racket to bully customers into paying way way more for what is at most a slightly improved product ... where the alternative is functionally pretty much just as good.

Maybe so primer, but I've gotten tiles at hd that have had no issues, and I don't regret the savings. It is NOT true that you get what you pay for. More expensive is not always better, and in some cases worse. It certainly is rarely necessary for an attractive, functional space.

I would rather not overspend, but maybe that's just me.

more expensive is always better if you're trying to sell an upscale product to an affluent audience.

have you never encountered the experience of buying or spending smart? once again your own example is disingenuous. we were talking about the lack of need to overspend for shower sills and suddenly you were talking about tiling an entire hotel.

is a $200K car better than a honda accord? yes. is it $170K better? much more difficult question and i don't think can be answered out of context. do you assume that the best bottle of wine is the most expensive?

Cost-benefit analysis is a very useful skill. And one that many don't seem to understand or employ in their daily lives. The concept of marginal utility also seems to elude many. Particularly those with a vested interest in selling goods and services.

What average person could look at my countertops and say, oh, that's an inferior product from hd? That's my point. The affluent audience would simply see beautiful countertops. Now, my Viking some would hate and some would love, but most could easily discern that I paid too much for it. But I use it two or three times a day, I love it, so on a cost-benefit level it works for me. I did kraftmaid because I needed cabinet sizes not offered by ikea and that added cost was also worth it for the flexibility. But I gutted my kitchen, only keeping the refrigerator, and I spent less than $35,000 for the entire kitchen, a nine foot galley and an eight foot island, with fairly high-end appliances (a jenn-air wall oven in addition to the Viking range), including labor, which most on here would say is impossible.

How many open houses have you been to? No, they are not common.

logrolling

When people preface their comment with no offense it invariably leads to an offensive comment.

primer: its pretty clear you've been at this so long that you truly have missed the point.

Primer, I think you offer a lot of helpful advice but you're way out of line here. Keith tackled a difficult task, saved money and likes the results. It's more than "good enough" for him, why shit on his parade? It isn't necessary nor necessarily fulfilling to buy better just because you can afford to. Plenty of people with discerning taste don't do so and live quite happily with their choices nonetheless. If you have OCD (as I suspect a few regular posters on the reno threads do) then by all means pay more and hire more. For many of the rest of us, however, it would be better if we didn't succumb to the idea of a "perfect" anything, it doesn't exist, and I can't tell you how many people I've met who hate their high-level renovations within a couple of years, although they usually initially claim to love it. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch, and it's virulent all things real estate.

you need to try to understand that you really don't understand.

and while you're at it --- check out the definition of condescending.

You often don't get what you pay for, is my experience. And you often, if not extremely vigilant, overpay for what you get. But I'm done now. I think cc is right, you're just not getting it.

Oh, Primer only has 20 years of experience in home renovation.
What would he know?
How could he possibly know more than the drunken bully gang members do?

Primer goes to work every day doing the highest quality renos for clients who are happy with the results and his services.

The bully gang members go to their computers every day with their alkie beverages, trolling on se for fights.

And Primer is so proud to have you as his Number 1 customer.

I'm sure primer is grateful for your support.

Ok let me add a scenario here, and based on the answer, I'll make the final determination.

Primer: Assume the window in question is in the shower. What would you do? How would it be different because the window was in the shower vs. not in the shower? How might your method of renovation for this window in the shower alleviate columbiacounty's phobia of windows in the shower like when he visited the apartment at 98 Riverside Drive? What would you recommend for someone who has a really big car that he's embarassed about driving up the Taconic State Parkway to Columbia County? Would you tint the windows?

Thank you.

alkiealanhart and alkieaboutready write that :
Primer is "so proud to have (me) as his number 1 customer"; "grateful for(my)support".

Primer has a website with photos of his work and recos from various customers. As they are,
I'm grateful to Primer for his great work and skilled staff.

None of his customers on his website are drunken alkie slobs.

are any of them drunken groupies?

truth, you seem, again, to be projecting. get help.

truth, AR, stop it. I have a question out, and once it's answered, I'll announce my final determination, and you'll have to live with it. That's it.

nice try, hb. like i'd give your final determination any credence. and you REALLY need to get over the need to post about certain posts in the past. let the dead die, and let your OCD take a rest. really.

although i find much of your commentary more interesting these days.

>let the dead die,

That is NOT nice. I have never said anything directed at columbiacounty that has gone that far.

huntersberg, why doesn't Primer have on his website those depressing photos of some random sad lonely old spinster's home, the ones ph41so cruelly implied are pix of truth's apartment?

alan, you have to pick, are you on Truth's side, or on ph41's side? You can't be on both, ... the enemy of my enemy

LOL!!!
A nobody, sad lonely old alkie, asking Primer drunken questions!

Laughing out loud? Like that bag lady I used to see in the subway so many years ago? I always wondered what became of her.

Now I know. Nothing became of her.

I'm on huntersberg's side.

dammit alan, can't you get anything write, I'm huntersburg, BURG, not bErg - with a U. You don't mistakenly call me hentersberg.

Psychosis wrecks havoc on one's vitriol

ph41 is giving me advice on when to "stop"?!
I'm not raging at anybody.
Nothing I've written "against those" has "worked against" me.

Now go to your terrace, penthouselady. apt23 is going to fling a black swan off the roof of your building, just to see it "fly by your window".
Bring a mop. It's going to be a mess out there.

Why are you harshing on someone who's trying to help you, trUth?