2016-2020 Home Goals

I decided it would be a lot more feasible to have a longer goal timeframe than just a year. It's hard to get a lot done in a year! Particularly when you have lots of things you like doing other than home projects. Particularly in summer, which we have 6-8 months of per year.

Anyway, here is our three-to-five-year plan! No task is too small to be included in this list, so that we can have some manageable things to cross off :)

Master Bedroom:

• Hang art
• Find a good comfy rug for under the bed
• Add cellular shades to the French doors to filter that pesky morning sunlight that shines directly in our eyes in the summer mornings
• Replace the left side shelves with a nicer bedside table? Or else just get some nice looking baskets for in the shelves to keep knitting projects, which is probably a better use of space and resources
• Crown molding? This will be tricky because of the layout of the room and its continuity with the bathroom walls so might not really be feasible*
• Refinish the desk*

Master Bathroom:

• Install a towel bar
• Touch up the paint on the baseboards and shelves

• Paint or wallpaper the toilet room
• Get a humidity-proof bench for in the shower

Master Closet:

• Find a good Roomba-safe rug, maybe round
• Hang the final shelf on the left side - this is just me being lazy really
• Attach shelves to the walls to prevent tipping hazards

• Replace the window

Guest Room/Office:

• Paint it, probably light gray with a navy accent wall or something along those lines
• Get a guest bed/mattress
• Finish assembling the desk
• Hang shelves to the left of the window for office/craft supply storage
• Frame the piece of textured glass from the master bathroom to use as a marker board? Or just toss it?
• Paint ski holders to hang skis above the bed
• Get a couple of navy shams for the bed
• Hang art
• Replace the window
• Get a bedside table -- maybe just use one of the cedar stumps in the backyard

Nursery:

• Paint it
• Hang a curtain rod we already have
• Get blackout curtains
• Paint the dresser
• Hang art
• Get a crib

• Replace the window

Guest Bathroom:

• Replace the mirror
• Replace the light fixture
• Get a new rug
• Replace the cabinet doors
• Get new cabinet door hardware -- I would love to find something like these octopus handles! These ones are custom but maybe I can find something similar

Hallways:

• Replace hall cabinet doors
• Replace hall cabinet hardware
• Install automatic light in the hall closet that turns on when you open the door
• Remove popcorn ceiling
• Paint ceiling light blue - I bought a sample a couple years ago
• Paint doors, or possibly replace them? I wanted to paint them black but I'm not sure if I still want that now. A bright color might be fun. Or else replacing them with five-panel doors like we got for the master bathroom would be nice.*
• Replace banged up door hardware after we fix up the doors*
• Replace the stairs to get to the attic room with either a circular staircase to the left of the hall closet or with some other solution, maybe even just a pull-down attic ladder?*

Living Room:

• Finish baseboards - halfway there
• Replace the curtains with something that will block out the light when we watch movies during the day
• Install a switch for the ceiling fan/light on the wall opposite the French doors
• Find a better solution for the projector screen power
• Add more art/photos
• Set up a mail station so we don't accumulate everything on the dining table
• Finish filling cracks between walls/ceiling and ceiling/beam
• Add new properly installed crown molding*
• Add a beadboard or paneled ceiling*
• Paint or refinish the fireplace limestone somehow*
• Replace the broken fireplace grate*

Dining Area:

• Replace the removed baseboards
• Hang light-blocking curtains
• Replace the crown molding in the dining room*
• Build a storage bench under the window?*

Kitchen:

• Organize the useless pantry
• Replace the window with a greenhouse window

Entryway:

• Replace the doorknob with a keypad lock

Garage:

• Finish installation of new water heater
• Hang the bikes - We've got the supplies since we received them as a wedding gift, so now it's just a matter of installation
• Put together the shelf we bought like a year ago
• Hang up brackets & rod we got for storing the Christmas lights
• Get a retractable clothesline for above the laundry machines
• Once we have some things moved out to a shed/workshop which we have yet to build, we can better organize what will remain in here

Front Yard:

• Replace the leaning, beat-up mailbox - We got a beautiful hand-painted mailbox as a gift from a friend and we really need to get it out there!
• Replace the privacy fence & gate that are falling over
• Add more flower beds & various xeriscaped areas*
• Have the house siding painted*

Back Yard:

• Replace the lattice on the deck railings that we removed when we moved in -- for safety
• Build a new shed/workshop
• Build a greenhouse
• Add a fence along the back perimeter of the property
• Take down the chain link fence
• Get rid of the hot tub?
• Figure out what to do with the pool -- keep it or toss it?
• Add a seating area on the concrete pad where the shed used to be -- I would like to build seating after we have a backyard workshop*

*Probably closer to 5 years or maybe even longer for these goals