Ask that she please wash more lighter weight, more balanced loads. 

Being made of regular and many times upgraded housing materials instead of that lighter fiberboard stuff, energy efficient windows, and even wood studs gives you more of solid feel.

@Jacky Johnson Hi, I use text messaging for the simple and lighter communications because it gets the quickest responses.

It's not just the porosity and sealing issues, well-chosen granite is not nearly as vulnerable to that as some of the trendier lighter more open grained granites that people felt compelled to use by their designers. 

some sub floors are lighter then others so a good underlay and Carpet in dry areas should help to reduce the noise. 

Not as "gray", a little lighter.

I would repaint the dark rooms a light color like in the other rooms with the lighter, neutral colors.It's a really nice place. 

In smaller SFH it's a bit dark so we plan to go lighter.

This house requires a few weekends of elbow grease with some minor updating in the bathrooms, carpet, paint, stain the cabinetry a lighter color, but I think It was updated before it sold for $125,000 in 2008.

With the cost of living so much cheaper and the traffic jams so much lighter, I can see myself moving there some day.