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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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:
Dining Area:
Kitchen:
Entryway:
- 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
- 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
