Outdoors
- Grill
- Adirondack chairs
- Garage torn down
- Yard managed
I now have a picture in my head of where the yards and gardens are going. That's huge. Next up, this summer:
- Back garden perennials relocated
- Brick patio installed
- Brick fire pit installed
- 2 new Adirondack chairs built
- Back fence and gate rearranged/extended
- Composter assembled and located –somewhere
- One small front yard garden re-arranged and made pretty
Front Porch
- Rug
- Wicker rocker
- Table, tablecloth, clock
- Curtains removed
- planters
Next-up Project:
- New storm door installed
- Get it cleared off. It's become a winter-time mess.
Morning Room
- New lamp
Ummm... I think that's it. This room is still in the emptying out, re-visioning phase.
Living Room
- Rug
- Couch
- Chair
- Bookshelf
- Wine rack
- Lamp
- Next-up innovations
- Second bookcase
Dining Room
- Dining room table
- 8 chairs
- New “china”
- Removed doors from the dining room corner, where there was just a jumble. I hope the doors will replace uglier ones upstairs, but I haven’t checked yet.
- Next-up project:
- Table linens
Kitchen
- New silverware
- Building a collection of new cookware
- New kitchen table
- new glassware
- Next-up project:
- Copper ceiling installed; ceiling fan removed
- Hideous, (seriously) light over the kitchen sink replaced with something nice.
Family Room
This uses to be the office, so it’s a paradigm shift
- walls painted
- Bought trim; it will be installed as well
Next-up project
- Move pine cupboard upstairs to sewing room
- Move my desk upstairs to new office
- Install trim
Downstairs Bathroom
- Toilet repaired, but really it needs to be replaced
- Next up innovations
- hot water leak repaired
Sewing Room
- Two new (custom) windows installed
- Next up innovations
- Get it cleared out!
- Look for a chest of drawers that can serve as a cutting table
Guest Room
- Removed scoungy old bookcase
- New clock
Next-up:
- I have tentative arrangements to get a full-size wrought iron bed in there.
Workout Room
ahem.... nothing. At all.
Next-up project:
- Clear out the yarn piles that have developed
- Bring down the weights and the weight bench
New Office
- Horrible carpet removed
- Hardwood floor installed
- painting finished
- Have a full-on plan for the room
- Have purchased the wall hangings
- Next up innovations
- Prime and paint the trim. Touch up the ceiling where I got over-excited.
- move the desk etc... upstairs
- Order the futon
My bedroom
- New bed
- New curtains
Next-up Innovations
- Remove carpet; have Pergo installed
Upstairs bathroom
- Shower door removed
- Recaulked the tub
- Dry wall repaired; room is ready for re-painting
- New curtains, towels, rugs, etc…
- Two new pieces of furniture –armoires
- New ceiling light installed
- New low-flo “rain” shower head installed
- Orchid for top of one armoire
- New doorknob
- New bathroom clock -which I seriously love
Next-up projects
- Ceiling exhaust fan replaced
- Painting
Infrastructure
- New sump pump
- New furnace and central air
- Programmable thermostat
Next up:
- a new hot water heater, probably
If you've gotten this far in the list, you must be a dear friend. Which probably means that you've noticed that I had a LOT of help getting all of this done, for which I thank you. You might also have noticed that the "next up" projects are somewhat smaller and discrete. "Change a light fixture" is a lot different from "Oh my heaven's, I'm rattling around in an empty house." This is a respectable list for a year's worth of work and I certainly don't want to lose momentum or stop this project. But I need a little respite, and some free brain cells to work on other things -such as, my career, for instance.
