As has grow to be my customized for the final a number of years, I’m beginning this new 12 months off with a listing of targets that I hope to perform on our home this 12 months. I did fairy effectively final 12 months on working in direction of my targets (you can see how well I did here), and I hope to maintain up that momentum (or perhaps pace up that momentum a bit with elevated focus) this 12 months.
I’ve to confess that I’m coming into this 12 months with just a little little bit of uncertainty in making my record of targets. The most important objective for this 12 months — our addition — remains to be an enormous query mark. There’s no query that we need to construct an addition. There’s no query that we need to get began on it this 12 months (ASAP, truly). The query is simply how briskly or gradual that challenge will go. I do not know how that can progress, so I’m attempting to carry it very loosely in my hand in order that I received’t set myself up for big disappointment if we finish this 12 months with out a fully completed and useful addition.
So with that mentioned, let’s leap into my targets for this 12 months, beginning with the sure targets, and ending with the loosely-held targets.
My Studio
My studio is clearly my first precedence for this 12 months. I made a ton of progress on the room final 12 months, however there are lots of initiatives that also should be completed. The entrance wall of cupboards is totally completed and usable, and Felicity loves it as a lot as I do. 😀
However there’s nonetheless so much left to do!
Right here’s a fast rundown of what’s left:
- End portray the ceiling and partitions,
- End putting in trim (baseboards and door casings),
- Paint the remainder of the doorways,
- Paint the bases of the work tables,
- Paint the bottom of the desk,
- Reupholster the desk chair,
- End the cupboards within the workplace space,
- Make the countertop for the workplace space,
- Make or purchase a brand new pendant mild for the workplace space,
- Clear out the storage closet and add cabinets,
- Sew and dangle curtains on the again doorways.
Studio Half Toilet
A toilet is technically a separate room, so I’m itemizing this individually. Having separate lists for the 2 separate areas additionally helps me to not get so overwhelmed with a brilliant lengthy to-do record. The toilet may be very a lot in an in-between state, and I’m very enthusiastic about getting it completed. Proper now, it’s fairly the mess.
It’s a tiny room, so in my thoughts, it shouldn’t take lengthy to complete. We’ll see how that goes. 😀 Right here’s what I must do:
- Restore holes/gouges within the partitions from eradicating the tile and trim,
- Prime the higher partitions,
- Set up the wallpaper,
- End the trim,
- Re-frame the mirror,
- Purchase and set up a shade for the window.
Visitor Bed room
Matt and I’ve been utilizing this bed room as our most important bed room since 2021 whereas we look forward to our addition to be constructed. And since I’m on this room a lot, I’ve realized that there are some things I need/want to alter or enhance. And since we don’t know the way lengthy our addition will take, I don’t need to maintain out for our new bed room. I must make this room work higher and extra effectively for me. However I additionally need to handle some aesthetic points as effectively.
So I’ll begin with the sensible stuff and transfer to the aesthetic stuff. The principle difficulty on this room is the storage. These closets are simply high-quality for a visitor bed room, however they’re not satisfactory in any respect for use as the primary storage for our garments and sneakers. My sneakers are continually spilling out onto the ground across the closet as a result of there’s merely not sufficient house. We now have to make do with what we now have, although. So I must discover a method to make it work till we are able to have our new bed room with our complete wall of IKEA wardrobes.
So right here’s the complete record of what I need to do on this room…
- Create higher storage contained in the closet(s) (particularly shoe storage),
- Constructed a base/body for the mattress that works with an adjustable mattress and matches the headboard,
- Construct a pleasant rolling cart for Matt (extra on this later),
- Proceed the blue/floral wall design onto the higher half different two partitions,
- Add wainscoting to the underside part of the three partitions.
Among the paint on the ground must be refreshed, however I don’t need to do this till we’re moved out of this room and into our new bed room. Which will or might not get completed this 12 months.
Hallway Toilet
I made some adjustments on this room final 12 months — a brand new countertop and a brand new self-importance colour. So this 12 months I need to end up the makeover on this room. That can embody a brand new mirror, new sconces, new wallpaper, and extra.
Right here’s a have a look at what I’m planning:
- Take away the tile border and make any repairs to the wall as wanted,
- Set up wallpaper,
- Make or purchase a brand new mirror,
- Give new sconces a makeover after which set up,
- Paint ceiling (perhaps),
- Rework shelving space simply contained in the door to the best in order that wallpaper will be put in in that space,
- Make new bathe curtain.
Grasp Toilet
I’ll guess y’all weren’t anticipating to see this room on a to-do record, had been you? 😀 Truly, I simply want a little bit of storage tweaking in right here. The room itself doesn’t want any adjustments.
The one difficulty in right here is that I’ve outgrown my jewellery storage, which is that this high drawer within the cupboard between the vanities.
I can take away the necklaces and retailer them with all of my beaded necklaces (as quickly as I determine how I need to retailer these), however I want extra sections for earrings. In truth, I’d love for this whole drawer to be crammed with little sections for earrings and pendants. I’ve two adjustable chain necklaces — one in gold and one in silver that modify from any size 24 inches and smaller — and I’ve an assortment of pendants for each. So a complete drawer crammed with earring-size sections could be fantastic!
I truly priced out having a customized jewellery insert made for this drawer, however with the variety of sections I need for a drawer this dimension, the worth was over $500. That’s simply not a worth I’d pay for one thing like that. So my to-do record for this room is…
- Customise a drawer for jewellery storage,
- Customise any of the opposite drawer storage as wanted.
Now that we’ve been utilizing this room for a 12 months, I do know a bit higher how we use the drawers. They may all use a little bit of customization, however my jewellery drawer is the one which’s most in want of consideration.
Carport
We had our carport completed final 12 months, and it has been wonderful!! What a special it has made having the ceiling completed, and having all of that mild on the market now! It’s wonderful to have the ability to exit after sundown (particularly right now of 12 months when sundown is round 5:30pm) and have all of that mild in order that I can proceed engaged on initiatives.
So all the main stuff has been completed. That simply leaves two smaller initiatives for me to do:
- Paint the outside of the French doorways,
- Construct a storage cupboard.
Entrance Porch & Entrance Yard
Effectively, I didn’t get it completed final 12 months, so perhaps this would be the 12 months! 😀
Yearly I feel, “Perhaps this would be the 12 months I’ll get some landscaping!” And yearly ends with no landscaping. So perhaps, simply perhaps, this would be the 12 months! 😀
Right here’s every part I’d love to do:
- Apply yet one more coat of stain/sealer to the porch boards,
- Make any wanted repairs to the column wraps,
- End paint touchups,
- End the fake stone on the porch skirting,
- Mark off/edge planting beds and get some fairly vegetation within the floor!
- Rehang the shutter that fell,
- Rehang the tape lights that fell.
There’s much more that I’d like to do on the entrance of our home and in our entrance yard, but when I can simply get these small initiatives completed, I’ll be blissful. And eventually…
The Addition
I don’t even know what to say about this, besides that I simply hope and pray that we are able to make some actually good headway on our addition this 12 months. I’ve no expectation that it’ll truly be all completed, with the rooms all embellished and full, earlier than the tip of the 12 months. That will be a fairly tall order. However I’d simply like to see some actual progress on it.
And naturally, there are such a lot of issues which can be contingent upon this addition. We will’t have a again patio till we now have the addition. I can’t flip our entrance room right into a eating room till we now have our new household room. I can’t flip our present sitting room again right into a breakfast room/extension of the kitchen till Matt has some cozy seating in a brand new household room. And I don’t need to spend time or power making adjustments to our present kitchen when it might change drastically as a part of the addition.
So I don’t actually have a record of particular objects for the addition or the rooms that shall be affected by the addition. We’re simply in a holding sample proper now, and I really feel like this who 12 months shall be crammed with “wait and see”. That’s why I’m attempting to carry it loosely. I’m simply going to strive my hardest to be laid again about the entire thing in order that I can benefit from the course of. If I attempt to maintain issues too tightly and get all micro-manager about it, it’s going to stress me out and that would make for a very depressing 12 months. That’s the very last thing I need. I need 2024 to be an incredible 12 months, and I can’t wait to see what occurs and the way a lot I can get completed!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
