It’s that point of 12 months once more once I record my targets for the brand new 12 months. I didn’t do such an incredible job on final 12 months’s targets (don’t fear…I’m not beating myself up over it, and I’m fairly happy with what I did accomplish final 12 months), so solely time will inform if this 12 months will likely be any higher so far as targets go.
Like I stated in yesterday’s put up, I nearly really feel like I may simply copy and paste final 12 months’s targets into this put up and be performed. 😀 However that’s not fairly correct. I did get some issues performed final 12 months (you can read the synopsis of my last year here), and due to what I completed final 12 months, I’m now right down to solely two rooms — the house gymnasium and my studio.
Technically, the half toilet that’s hooked up to the studio is completed, however I do have plans to make some adjustments in there, so I made that room inexperienced (in progress) on the ground plan above.
In order that’s fairly thrilling. I’m simply down to 2 rooms. It’s been a really lengthy highway to get right here, and I’d love nothing greater than to finish 2023 with all of those rooms utterly completed.
Right here’s a extra detailed have a look at what I hope to perform this 12 months:
The House Health club
This room is an absolute mess proper now. It was used as a storage room and workroom all by the grasp toilet transform. And now it’s time to get it cleaned out and completed. I had hoped to have this room cleaned out by now, however the day I had deliberate to get began on that’s the day that Matt and I each began getting sick, and the day that Matt went to the hospital the primary time. And now right here we’re, three weeks later, and the room nonetheless appears like this.
However that’s okay. I’ll begin at the moment! And I used to be capable of make some progress on this room final 12 months, so a whole lot of the more durable tasks are performed. Firstly of final 12 months, not one of the home windows or doorways had been trimmed out. Now they’re all trimmed out, however I do nonetheless have to sand, caulk, prime and paint the trim.
So right here’s precisely what must be performed in right here to complete the room:
- Set up the remainder of the hardwood flooring within the closet space
- Set up the remainder of the small trim on the ceiling
- End putting in the baseboards
- End paint contact ups on the partitions
- Set up the ceiling fan
- Set up the 2 recessed lights within the closet space
- Sand, caulk, prime, and paint the entire trim
- Window casings
- Door casings
- Baseboards
- Small trim round ceiling
- Set up the froth sq. gymnasium flooring
- Cling the curtains (sure, I’m hanging curtains in a house gymnasium…as a result of I’m me. 😀 )
- Construct the Swedish ladder
- Construct a cupboard and cabinets within the open closet space
- Paint Matt’s train bike (it’s white, and I’d prefer it to be black)
- Add mirrors/posters/art work/no matter else a house gymnasium must be a motivational area
And as soon as that room is completed, that simply leaves me with ONE MORE ROOM!
My Studio
Y’all, this must be the 12 months that I end this area. It’s been method too lengthy already, and for my very own psychological well being, I would like it completed. I’m so able to have a completely purposeful studio area with storage and group and every thing as an alternative.
And the way thrilling will probably be when it’s completed, as a result of that is the final room inside the home!! (Effectively, the final room because it stands now, earlier than we add three extra rooms.)
Right here’s what must occur to ensure that this room to be completed:
- Set up, caulk, prime, and paint the remainder of the trim
- Window casings (all put in, however two nonetheless have to be caulked, primed, and painted)
- Door casings
- Baseboards
- Construct, prime, and paint cupboards
- Cupboards within the “workplace” space of the room by my desk
- The total wall of cupboards on the entrance (wallpapered) wall
- Cupboards by the door into the sitting room (i.e., breakfast room)
- Set up lighting within the storage closet
- Construct cabinets for the storage closet
- Make just a few tweaks to the half toilet
- Repaint the partitions within the again entry
I could find yourself including issues to that record as I am going. I’ve talked about that I could swap out the wallpaper. (Don’t get upset! I haven’t made up my thoughts simply but. This one might keep.) And I would change up the wall shade in the principle studio space as properly.
So far as the half tub goes, I’m not fairly positive how intensive the adjustments will likely be in there. I do know that the wall design will go, however I’m undecided what it’ll get replaced with. I do know I wish to preserve it colourful and enjoyable. So relying on what I do with the partitions, the self-importance shade might have to vary as properly. However that’s a possibly, and it’s a kind of issues that will likely be determined as I make progress. I don’t need to make these choices proper now.
So these are the ultimate two inside areas that I’ll be specializing in this 12 months, and people will likely be my predominant targets. If nothing else, I wish to finish this 12 months with these two areas utterly completed and usable. I don’t wish to preserve having to cover these areas behind closed doorways when company come over.
However I at all times have just a few extra “second tier” targets that I take into account in case I would like a change of tempo to maintain myself , motivated, and transferring ahead. Right here’s what that record appears like this 12 months…
The Visitor Bed room
I completed this room some time again, however there are some tweaks I’d like to make in right here if I can discover time to do them.
I discussed some time again (possibly it was simply on Fb) that I wasn’t too positive concerning the one function wall. Don’t get me mistaken. I like that wall and the design I did on it. However what I haven’t been thrilled with is that the opposite partitions on this room are so blah.
That’s simply not me. So I polled folks to see what they thought of me extending the wall design to the opposite two partitions. Most individuals thought that might be an excessive amount of. And I do agree {that a} floor-to-ceiling design on all three of these partitions could be an excessive amount of. However I’m additionally not happy with leaving it like it’s.
So what’s my go-to answer once I need a whole lot of shade and/or sample on the partitions, however I don’t need it to be too overwhelming? Wainscoting! White wainscoting, to be exact. That’s what I did within the music room and within the grasp toilet. In order that’s what I’d love to do in right here…plus one different challenge…
- Add wainscoting to the underside half of the partitions
- Prolong the floral design to the opposite two partitions
- Construct a brand new base for the mattress that may accommodate the adjustable mattress
Entrance Porch and Exterior
I’ve some upkeep that must be performed on our entrance porch, plus I simply have to lastly end the entrance porch. So far as the upkeep goes, I don’t assume I can put it off one other 12 months. If I do, I could threat the climate doing an excessive amount of harm to the wooden and having to interchange issues. I’d fairly not let it get to that time.
So right here’s what I’d love to do…
- End the stone façade on the entrance and aspect of the concrete porch
- Sand and reseal/stain the porch boards
- Repaint the entrance door (identical shade, however it simply wants a refresh)
- Create a sitting space on the entrance porch
- Create flower beds across the porch and plant fairly issues
- Construct steps on the aspect (studio) door
- Rehang one shutter that got here off throughout excessive winds
- Construct flower containers and set up
Kitchen
As of this very second, I don’t have an entire lot deliberate for the kitchen this 12 months, however I do wish to make this the 12 months that I lastly eliminate the dishwasher and convert that area in to usable cupboard space. I wish to add a kind of Rev-a Shelf pop up cabinets that most individuals use for his or her stand mixers, however mine will likely be used for my blender and InstantPot, and possibly a pair extra issues.
However the kitchen adjustments might develop into extra intensive if we’re lastly capable of begin on the addition this 12 months. Proper now, that’s a giant if. Nothing has been nailed down but, however I do plan to place these wheels in movement very quickly and see if we will make that occur this 12 months.
If we will make that occur, the again wall of cupboards will likely be altering. However my plan is not to make a cased opening between the kitchen and the brand new household room. I do assume I’ve landed on an concept that I like, although. And if I implement that concept, the entire again wall of cupboards within the kitchen will likely be altering. I’m not fairly able to share particulars simply but.
All of that to say that proper now, my plans for the kitchen are minimal. However these plans might change relying on what occurs with the addition this 12 months. For now, I wish to…
- Take away the dishwasher
- Convert that space into storage
Carport
As soon as once more, the carport is being added to my record of targets. And this 12 months, it actually must get performed for a similar cause that I actually need to do the upkeep on the entrance porch. The siding on the carport has by no means been painted, and technically, you’re solely supposed to permit primed Hardiboard to stay unpainted for simply so lengthy. I’m undecided how lengthy that period of time truly is, however I’m positive that I’m well beyond that point by now.
I do not know why I didn’t have my contractor’s guys end the carport utterly when it was constructed. For some cause, I believed I’d do the entire ending tasks myself, however right here we’re, 4 years later, and it’s nonetheless not completed. It nonetheless wants lights (and probably a ceiling fan) put in, a ceiling put in, trim put in, and it must be painted. Why on the planet did I feel I wished to do these tasks myself?
Plus, now it wants roof restore from when the massive department from that massive oak tree (that we had lower down final 12 months) fell on the roof and punch a gap in it.
So I feel it’s time to drop the delusion that I’m going to do these items myself, and rent them out in order that they really get completed. Whoever does the work must…
- Set up the lights (and possibly a ceiling fan)
- Set up the ceiling, and caulk, prime and paint the ceiling
- Set up trim on the columns
- Paint the outside of the doorways
- Paint the siding and trim
I feel that’s it. I’m not delusional sufficient to assume that I can get all of this performed in 2023, however I do assume I can get the house gymnasium and the studio completed this 12 months. These different targets are literally gadgets that I’ll deal with like a buffet. If I discover myself needing a while away from the house gymnasium or the studio, I’ll see if I can select an merchandise from the buffet of “second tier” choices simply to maintain myself transferring ahead. And as soon as I’ve had an satisfactory break from the principle targets, I can get proper again to these till they’re completed.
After which with the addition up within the air proper now, it’ll be very attention-grabbing to see simply how this 12 months shakes out ultimately. Meet me again right here in 12 months, and we’ll see how I did. 😀
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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