If I Were To Get This All Done...

...Then I must have magically ended up with a 32 hour day in which I required no sleep!

Yay! No sleep!  I'm so excited!

Oh wait... I forgot.  I like sleep!

 

So, I know that this list is a bit over zealous.  I know that a lot of these projects will cost more than I expect.  I know some (or many) will carry into 2014.  I know that I will probably change my mind about some of these [hair-brained] ideas...

But here they are!  Break out the Carhartts!

In 2013, I'd like to do/work on the following house projects:

Living Room:

• Wall art - my walls are tired of being naked!
• Bookshelves - need somewhere to keep my growing pile of books and various assundries
• Curtains - I've hated the cheapy ones that came with the house since day 1.  They need to go.
• 1/2 wall into the kitchen - I'm dreaming big! :o)
• Shoe rack - this is Kevin's request, as he hates tripping over my boots when he's over.

Kitchen:

• Finish cabinets - Paint underneath (one year later...) and put up the rest of the hardware
• Counter tops - bigger project, but if it happened... I'd be such a happy camper!  Not sure what I want to do with them though...
• Floor - mine is uuuuuuugly! ["but she sure can cook!" - name that song!].  Again, bamboo?  Cork?  Engineered hardwood?

Downstairs Bathroom:

• New vanity - the one I have is falling apart (oh, and has graffiti left from previous tenants)
• Frame out the mirror
• Change the light - I have the fixture, just haven't gotten to it.
• Hooks - no towel bars in there, bought some neato toledo artisan hooks, just need to nail those bad boys in.

Office/Gear Room:

• Paint the gear shelves - but what color????  ahhhh!
• Make/buy bins for said gear on the shelf
• Light - change it out, maybe, still undecided
• Curtains - DONE!  (I had to put one thing on the checklist I could immediately check off.  That's how I roll.)

Guest Room:

• Window - make it purdy
• Quilts - break out the sewing machine and get to stitching!
• Art - finish the half done art hanging on the walls. :op

Upstairs Bathroom:

• Vanity - need a new one.  Stat.
• Floor - need a new one.  Stat. (seriously, its grungy AND a small lotion bottle created a huge spider like crack in the tile.  Reeee dic u lous!)
• Figure out how to make the long awkward shelves into a usable "linen closet"
• Re-tile the tub - Or else it's going to look more and more like caulk city in there.  Oh, and I HATE the dusty pink tile and the ones with the flowers...
• Hang up towel hooks.  I hate the brassy bar that's dangling from the wall.
• Paint.  Make it.... blue! (or some variation of, I have a lot of blue paint)

Upstairs Room:

• Paint. 
• Awkward sink - Mission: make less awkward (yes, I have a pedestal sink chilling in my bedroom)
• Art.  Again, another naked room.

Outside:

• Patio like something or other in the back.
• Work on the drainage issue - although this may not be a problem with the lack of snow this year...
• Flowers & Garden - Plant some more flowers.  Grow some grub.  Add two more small raised beds to the side of the house.

I'd also like to:

• Go berry picking on the Denali Highway while everyone else is caribou hunting.
• Have a [at least moderately] successful garden.
• Be way more awesome at preserving things from said garden.
• Travel somewhere I haven't been (preferably outside of Alaska).
• Spend more time outdoors.  Hiking, biking, boating, camping, picnicking... Anything outside!
• Read more, Hulu less.
• Be a better bread baker and soup maker.
• Consider craft fairs for the Fall/Winter.
• Give Rudder a haircut (ok, I know this one is weird, but I cannot wait until it is warm enough to get rid of his well loved Fozzie bear look he's rocking...)
• Tune my piano and play it!
• Not kill all of my house plants.
• Finally organize all my paperwork...  
• Rediscover my sketchbook.
• Post things sooner (instead of waiting, oh 6+ months, then deciding its a bit late to talk about Easter in November...) 
• Make my house feel more like home (good post here on that)

Now, where did I leave that tape measure...