Pleased New Yr!! Even via we’ve got taken the final couple weeks offline, Chris and I’ve been speaking continuous about what initiatives we’re enthusiastic about round the home. (We put out a mission listing yearly in January and look again on the finish of the yr to see how we did.) Right here’s the publish the place we shared our 2023 Home Project List! A few of these initiatives that we didn’t get to have rolled over to this yr. Whereas it is a listing of bigger initiatives we hope to sort out this yr, we purposefully tried to maintain it smaller (some years, there have been 15 large initiatives on our listing!) so we will make room for smaller initiatives, too. Whereas I really like knocking a complete room out, typically it’s the little issues that make the most important affect–like portray inside doorways or weeding the backyard beds or purging a closet or lastly making a cushion for the window seats within the bonus room. So whereas we nonetheless have fairly a number of massive initiatives on deck on this home, 1. we’re not in a rush to finish them and a pair of. we’d wish to have a greater steadiness of enormous and small to-dos on our listing. (Though that is simply the large initiatives as a result of the small ones we wish to glide on–that’s half the enjoyable of a small mission!). Let’s dive in:
1. Major Toilet and Closet
We’ve been engaged on designing our main lavatory and closet over a yr in the past after which final yr, we began working with Distinctive Kitchens and Tub to start out making it come to life. We’ve had a number of conferences with our contractors about what’s doable (like, what IS the most suitable choice for privateness with that window). I really feel like we’re type of to an precise start line! Actually! (Okay…however I do preserve second guessing a pair issues eeeek) So you’ll be able to count on that mission to start out soon-ish, fingers crossed.
Under you’ll be able to see a rendering from Distinctive Kitchens and Tub for the route we’re headed!
2. The Mudroom! (Final yr, we known as it Cricket’s Room/Pool Toilet)
That is undoubtedly a kind of initiatives I’m glad we took a beat on, as a result of its perform modified completely! This time, final yr, we had plans to renovate this right into a pool lavatory. This area, which was once our laundry room (you’ll be able to see our new laundry room here) is not going to be a pool lavatory, however a mudroom. And that window goes to be an entry into the home! It’s already very underway. You may see the plans and progress here. Over the break it obtained drywalled and appears like an actual room.
3. Tile the Again Hallway
That door on the finish of the hallway is now a pocket door (that can probably stay open for essentially the most half) and the tile ground from the mudroom will prolong into this again corridor that additionally connects each garages. We’re additionally portray all of the trim on this hallway the identical deep crimson as the cupboards within the mudroom.
4. Cleansing Closet
Assist! This closet wants a lot assist! It is a very shallow closet within the again hallway that we use to haphazardly retailer our cleansing provides. Its goal would be the similar, however the perform has GOT to enhance. That is technically a small mission, however we want to add electrical to this closet to cost vacuums, and a lightweight too, so it’s on this listing so I can bear in mind to name the electrician. Ha!
5. Trim within the Entry.
I’ve needed so as to add a great deal of trim to our entry since we moved in and I hope this yr is the yr! There’s plenty of wall area, so it is smart for it to be field trim in all places, however I can’t shake the considered some wainscoting in a COLOR all through the entry. Nonetheless stewing on that.
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6. New Home windows
All the home windows are unique to the home and never vitality environment friendly in any respect. The seals are damaged and within the mornings we will see cloudy condensation making its manner in. In March, we began researching new home windows, had all of our present home windows measured and found which of them we might simply exchange the sash kits on (extra finances pleasant!) and which home windows want changed completely. Then it was time to decide on a shade and that’s the place we obtained held up. I really need black inside!! I didn’t suppose I might, however I’m so drawn to it I’m not going to battle it. However the exterior of the home windows we’ve got struggled with. We chosen a shade that the home windows got here in, however our HOA wanted the paint shade code after which we obtained to pondering–we have been type of selecting a ok shade as a result of that’s what was out there (sure). Would we be higher off getting home windows that you simply simply paint the precise shade you need? (I feel so). They’ll take 20+ weeks to get in, so we’re ordering them quickly!
7. Rec Room
This room went from being our group workplace (earlier than shifting that off-site), to the playroom and now it’s actually evolving into the rec room as our women grow old. We obtained a big sectional on the restoration {hardware} outlet final month. It has a big TV, that’s used to play video video games. And for Christmas, we obtained our household a enjoyable double shot basketball game! However it’s all just a little mishmashed along with a fairly stale backdrop. We would like this to be a enjoyable hangout spot for our household, but in addition the ladies and their associates for a very long time. I’m pondering wooden partitions can be so fairly in right here!!
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