The House List

One of the quirks my husband is learning to love tolerate about me is my tendency to come up with new projects whenever I have any downtime.  We’ll be laying on the couch talking… and I’ll be planning what the room would look like if we painted it and added crown molding.  He’ll inevitably ask… what are you thinking about? and when I tell him, he rolls his eyes and just deals with it.  But I think it might actually be a sickness! I love thinking about and brainstorming new projects and I feel like every layer of beige paint I cover in some other color makes the house a little more ours and a little less ‘theirs’ (i.e. builder’s, previous owners, etc).

So here goes… my list of what I think I want to change about the house:

Living room:

• PAINT!! (but this also includes painting a very long hallway)
• Crown Molding
• Paint the white fireplace with a glossier white (its very matte and dull right now)
• Fix the curtains
• Build built ins where the tv is?
• More pillows

Kitchen:

• Double Ovens (and thus figure out a Microwave solution)
• New light fixtures: over the table and the long florescent lights
• Crown Molding

Dining Room:

• New chairs
• Build a table?
• Crown Molding
• Paint the front door
• Hang something on the wall by the door

Guest Bathroom:

• Crown Molding
• Replace Light fixture

Master Bedroom:

• redo the larger dresser
• hang art above bed and on side wall
• Fix curtains
• build a header box for curtains
• paint?
• Crown Molding

Master Bathroom:

• Paint Cabinets
• Paint White
• Add tile accent?
• Frame out Mirror?
• spray paint gold accents on shower/replace shower door
• Built-in closet
• Hang things on walls

Office:

• Crown Molding
• Document the house for insurance
• reorganize craft area

Guest Bedroom

• Paint the bookshelves/build new more appropriately sized bookshelf
• Frame Husband’s Diploma and CPA Certificate and hang
• Crown Molding
• Change out artwork

Laundry Room:

• Replace shelves with cabinets
• Get rid of the linoleum
• Get a water sensor for the washer
• Paint
• Build a drying rack

Hallways:

• Redo shelves in the closet upstairs
• Board and Batten on the hallway downstairs

Garage:

• Figure out a better scrap wood storage
• Better storage for under the workbench
• Cover the garage floor
• Organize/construct the shelves

Some of this might change/other priorities may come up, but for now this is my go to plan list for what I want to get done long term on the house!