I really like adorning. One may even say that I’m “addicted” to it. 😀 And the explanation I adore it is as a result of it doesn’t matter what the method appears to be like like, irrespective of how horrible the mid-point of the venture will get, I can look ahead to having a reasonably (to me) end result. So in terms of these tasks that I do know are vital and wanted, however gained’t finish with a reasonably end result, it’s so laborious for me to inspire myself to begin, to maintain engaged on it, and to complete it.
And that’s the place I discover myself proper now. I’ve had a little bit of a detour from studio tasks over the past three weeks whereas I turned my consideration to different extra urgent issues. However on the finish of final week, I turned my consideration again to the studio, and particularly, to getting the storage closet completed. And I’ll simply be actually trustworthy. I’m so bored out of my thoughts with this, and I really feel so utterly unmotivated. I wish to do the enjoyable stuff — the stuff that may really make a distinction when folks stroll into my studio. I wish to end the trim, paint the doorways, and reupholster my desk chair.
However as a substitute, I’m caught in a boring storage closet that was ugly earlier than I began, remains to be ugly although I’m midway completed, and will likely be ugly when it’s completed. It’ll simply be an unsightly closet the place I can hopefully retailer issues in an organized method. And there’s nothing about that that motivates me.
The 2 ideas that preserve me going are (1) it simply must be accomplished and never doing it isn’t an possibility, and (2) I can’t transfer ahead within the studio till this closet is completed in order that I can transfer issues out of my method within the studio and into this closet. So I press on, slowly however certainly.
However simply to indicate you that I’m, in truth, making progress, let me remind you of how this closet began out. It was simply piled filled with packing containers, a few of which hadn’t been opened in a few years. After which there’s the HVAC unit, which has been an actual supply of frustration for me for the reason that day it was put in, and I got here dwelling to seek out that the installer had constructed this ridiculous plywood base that regarded prefer it was a 3rd grader’s first time ever to chop and nail items of wooden collectively.
So with a view to cowl up that eyesore of an HVAC unit and the plywood field it’s sitting on, I hooked up a tall piece of plywood to the facet of the field, notching the highest half across the ducts, and including a cutout for the consumption vent on the backside. No less than this manner, the HVAC unit and that terrible plywood platform are hidden in order that they’re not front-and-center when the closet door is open.
I actually wished to color the closet white, however I used to be out of white paint. I had a full gallon of the identical inexperienced paint that I had used within the again entry, in order that’s what I used. I simply didn’t wish to spend cash on paint for this closet if I didn’t need to.
So now I’ve this little space to the precise simply contained in the door the place I can set up some cabinets. They’ll should be excessive sufficient to clear the vents, however I feel I can get a minimum of three or 4 cabinets in that space.
It’s nonetheless a multitude behind that plywood, however there’s simply nothing I can do about it.
I did lastly set up a lightweight in right here. I simply want to connect it within the ceiling. I used to be ready for paint to dry.
And I nonetheless must trim out the door and the vent within the wall, paint the ground, set up some baseboards, and transfer the shelving models in and name it good. I could not even paint the again of the door.
One factor I did that I’ve been desirous to do for a very long time now’s label our breaker field. Once I went to show off the breaker in order that I might set up the sunshine on this closet, I used to be flipping breakers and having a heck of a time discovering the precise one. None of our breakers have ever been labeled. So this was a welcome break from probably the most boring venture ever. It took me about two hours to trace down all the breakers and get all of them labeled. I ought to have accomplished this years in the past!
And apparently, I came upon that we have now six breakers that aren’t even getting used. I don’t know why they’re in there. There are literally wires going to them, however they don’t really do something.
Anyway, I’m actually hoping I can get this closet accomplished as we speak so I can transfer on to extra attention-grabbing issues that I really wish to do. It’s difficult forcing myself to do a venture that I simply don’t care about, don’t wish to do, and discover so extremely unmotivating and boring. However that’s a part of homeownership, proper? We don’t all the time get to stay to the enjoyable and thrilling issues we wish to do. We now have to do the boring stuff, too.
I do know that after this closet is completed, I’ll be so grateful that it’s accomplished, and I’ll take pleasure in having the additional space for storing. It was unusable for thus lengthy, so it’ll be good to have a giant closet out there for storage. I simply want to remain targeted for just a little bit longer.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and embellish 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.
