My Home Goals for 2012
We just bought our first house this past October. You can read more about that here. I have a huge to-do list and I realize not everything has to happen at once! I really love our new place and enjoy making it more "our space".
1. Update the Exterior with shutters and paint the front door a fun color. Pretty up the landscaping. We have a "L" shaped sidewalk that needs something to soften it up.
2. Figure out how to make the office into a guest room as well. Needs to be organized better. Maybe get rid of the glass desk and gets something more functional.
3. Put a roof or something over the back porch. (can you tell I haven't thought this one through?!)
4. Finish painting our master bedroom furniture to all black. Hang up art. I see this room getting neglected because I care more about getting the kids' rooms done and the main living areas.
5. Violet's room is almost done! Just need to finish her gallery wall and throw pillows. See below. Her room makes me happy! It's bright and sweet. I'll be posting a lot more pictures once it's finished!
6. Finish painting the hallway & front living room grey.
7. Get furniture for the front living/dining. Violet always yells "mommy, I'm playing in the room that has no furniture!" haha
8. Paint and decorate Zander's room. I already bought the grey & blue paint. He will have a striped wall behind his crib and a vintage car theme.
9. Paint the movie room. My husband has free reign over this room. I trust his judgement since he used to build media rooms for a living.
10. Get curtains for the living & kitchen area. Replace rug in living room with one that doesn't shed. Hang up art in Living & Kitchen.
11. Eventually I want to replace the backsplash in the kitchen. I'm thinking penny tile or subway tile. I want to paint our light wood cabinets white. Then have maybe a light aqua backsplash. Countertops need to be updated too. They are white laminate and stain so easily.
12. Start putting wood laminate in some of the main rooms.
And I have a lot more going on in my head! But I'll end with 12 since it's 2012. This is already a huge list and will involve quite a bit of money. But I know a year from now our new place will feel a lot more like home!
We just bought our first house this past October. You can read more about that here. I have a huge to-do list and I realize not everything has to happen at once! I really love our new place and enjoy making it more "our space".
1. Update the Exterior with shutters and paint the front door a fun color. Pretty up the landscaping. We have a "L" shaped sidewalk that needs something to soften it up.
2. Figure out how to make the office into a guest room as well. Needs to be organized better. Maybe get rid of the glass desk and gets something more functional.
3. Put a roof or something over the back porch. (can you tell I haven't thought this one through?!)
4. Finish painting our master bedroom furniture to all black. Hang up art. I see this room getting neglected because I care more about getting the kids' rooms done and the main living areas.
5. Violet's room is almost done! Just need to finish her gallery wall and throw pillows. See below. Her room makes me happy! It's bright and sweet. I'll be posting a lot more pictures once it's finished!
6. Finish painting the hallway & front living room grey.
7. Get furniture for the front living/dining. Violet always yells "mommy, I'm playing in the room that has no furniture!" haha
8. Paint and decorate Zander's room. I already bought the grey & blue paint. He will have a striped wall behind his crib and a vintage car theme.
9. Paint the movie room. My husband has free reign over this room. I trust his judgement since he used to build media rooms for a living.
10. Get curtains for the living & kitchen area. Replace rug in living room with one that doesn't shed. Hang up art in Living & Kitchen.
11. Eventually I want to replace the backsplash in the kitchen. I'm thinking penny tile or subway tile. I want to paint our light wood cabinets white. Then have maybe a light aqua backsplash. Countertops need to be updated too. They are white laminate and stain so easily.
12. Start putting wood laminate in some of the main rooms.
And I have a lot more going on in my head! But I'll end with 12 since it's 2012. This is already a huge list and will involve quite a bit of money. But I know a year from now our new place will feel a lot more like home!
Here's some pictures of projects I've completed!
Yarn Winter Wreath~
this was so much fun to make! My first time making felt flowers. I see myself making many more.
this was so much fun to make! My first time making felt flowers. I see myself making many more.
Violet's new room. It's got a butterfly~princess theme going on and almost completed!
2 comments:
Wow! That is quite a list! I am visiting from the Nester's home party and I can't wait to see what you accomplish in 2012!
blessings,
karianne
PS I need new exterior shutters, too. LOL!
LOL, I know this is a huge list. Really I just wanted to write out all that I want to change but I know it won't all happen in a year!
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