What Will Happen To My Blog When I’m Finished With The House?

I’ve talked about repeatedly these days (as a result of I’m simply so enthusiastic about it) that I’m lastly beginning on the final inside room of our home (my studio), and when this room is finished, I’ll have formally completed the entire inside rooms of our residence. And each time I point out that, I get loads of questions from individuals asking me what I’m going to do with my weblog once I’m completed with the studio. It appears as if loads of very long time readers are pondering that when the studio is completed, I’ll be closing down the weblog.

Effectively, that gained’t occur. Let me guarantee you that whereas I’m nearly formally completed with the inside of our home, there’ll nonetheless be loads to do after that.

Let me provide you with a fast rundown of the place issues stand as of right now, and the place issues shall be heading.

The Studio and Studio Rest room

This room is a giant challenge, and contains not solely the primary room, but additionally the studio toilet. I would like to get this finished by mid-August of this yr (our 10-year anniversary of buying this home), however I’m not putting bets on me really assembly that purpose. That’s lower than 4 months away, and there’s a ton of labor to be finished in these rooms.

The Hallway Rest room

Simply because the within of the home shall be formally completed after I end the studio, that doesn’t imply that I gained’t return and make some adjustments to some rooms. I not too long ago had an individual ask me in a remark, “Don’t you ever get bored with redoing initiatives that you just’ve already finished?” My response was, “Maybe you missed the identify of my weblog.” 😀 No. I’ll by no means get bored with redoing, tweaking, attempting out completely different concepts.

So with that stated, I’ve beforehand talked about a number of adjustments I wish to make within the hallway toilet.

These embrace (1) new counter tops, (2) new accent tile, (3) new sconces, (4) new bathe curtain, (5) new plumbing fixtures, and (6) new vainness shade.

The Visitor Bed room

There are nonetheless a number of adjustments I wish to make to this bed room, most of which I’m fairly positive I’ve already talked about in earlier weblog posts.

The primary challenge in right here would be the partitions. From that view above, I really like how the room appears. However I don’t ever see the room simply from that view. I see the room from this view…

And after dwelling with the room as it’s for over two years, and really utilizing it as our short-term bed room, the partitions simply really feel unfinished to me. So I’m going to proceed the hand-drawn flower design round on the higher a part of the opposite two partitions, after which add white wainscoting to the underside of all three partitions.

Along with the partitions, I additionally have to construct a body for the mattress. The unique fairly wooden body that I take advantage of in right here ended up not figuring out after we switched our common mattress for an adjustable mattress on the suggestion of Matt’s bodily therapist. So for 2 years now, the mattress has additionally regarded unfinished, and just about appears prefer it’s floating. You may type of see what I imply within the image under…

And eventually, I’m simply undecided if I’m a yellow individual. I attempted it out in right here as a result of I simply occurred to have the yellow velvet readily available and determined to make use of that for the home windows. And whereas I believe the yellow appears good with the blue, I’m simply a lot extra of a pink/coral individual. In order that is likely to be getting a change, however I haven’t determined for positive but.

The Kitchen

The kitchen was the primary room that I transformed after we purchased the home, so it’s been some time!

That doesn’t imply that I’m able to utterly transform it once more. However I’ve some issues I wish to do in right here. For instance, how lengthy now have I stated I wish to eliminate the dishwasher? A very long time! I nonetheless plan to do this, however that challenge has but to maneuver as much as the highest of the precedence checklist. It would ultimately, although.

I additionally wish to eliminate the concrete counter tops and change these with quartz. I don’t know when that may occur, however I’m so finished with concrete counter tops. They served their goal after we couldn’t afford a better high quality stable floor counter tops, however after nearly ten years of coping with stains on concrete, I’m finished. I lengthy for the day that I can eliminate them.

The Addition

I do know we’ve talked about this for thus lengthy now that it looks like it’s going to by no means occur, however it’s going to. Each time Matt and I begin to suppose it’s time, one thing occurs (just like the economic system crumbling, or banks collapsing) that makes us very uncertain about doing one thing so massive proper now. Nevertheless it will occur. And as soon as it does occur, I’ll have a household room, bed room, and laundry room to complete.

The Home Exterior

I’ve centered fairly a bit these days on our entrance porch, and there are nonetheless initiatives to be finished to complete that up. I would like to complete up the portray, reinstall the tape lights, and end the stone skirting.

However there are such a lot of extra exterior initiatives to be finished! After I was cleansing out the sunroom a couple of months in the past, I got here throughout some corbels that I purchased years in the past to make window flower packing containers for the home windows on the entrance of our home. That also must be finished!

I additionally nonetheless plan to construct a pergola above the breakfast room home windows (that are nearly utterly obscured by this plant that retains rising again).

After which I nonetheless have to construct steps and end up this space by the aspect studio door. That is an outdated image, taken approach again after we had that concrete pad poured, however that’s nonetheless all that’s there. There are nonetheless stacked cider blocks serving as steps to this door, and I have to construct steps to match the model of the entrance steps.

After which there’s the carport. This factor continues to be not completed. It’s helpful simply as it’s, however it must be completed. That is an outdated image, so fortunately, the shutters are not there. 😀 They have been put in on the home way back. However the remaining nonetheless appears just about the identical. It must be painted, and it nonetheless wants a completed ceiling and lighting.

The Yard Tasks & Landscaping

Even as soon as all of that’s finished, I nonetheless have an acre of land that wants landscaping!! Don’t overlook this stunning landscaping plan that Matt purchased me for my birthday final yr.

I actually really feel like I may work on that for the remainder of my life and by no means get it completed, and by no means run out of issues to do. There’s no approach I may get tired of that landscaping purpose.

Then There’s The Small Tasks

As if all of these issues weren’t sufficient, I’ve been saving concepts for paintings and small initiatives that I wish to do and share and educate individuals the best way to make for actually years. Whereas I misplaced a complete lot of them when my exterior laborious drive broke, I nonetheless have so many concepts saved elsewhere (Pinterest, Instagram, my laptop computer) that I’ve been gathering for years and simply ready for a time once I can spend extra time on these small, enjoyable initiatives. I may in all probability spend a whole decade or two simply doing small enjoyable constructing initiatives, artwork initiatives, stitching initiatives, and so on., and nonetheless not get to the top of my artistic concepts.

All of that to say that even when the inside of our home (because it stands right now) is formally completed, and the studio is finished, there isn’t a scarcity of artistic concepts that I’ve, and issues that I wish to do, construct, and create, that I can share with you. However sure, as soon as I’ve finished all of that, then it’ll be time to close down the weblog. 😉

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 nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.

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