Glad New Yr, y’all! Should you’ve been round right here some time, you know the way a lot I like the start of a brand new 12 months. It’s a clear slate. A recent begin. And, after all, it’s a good time to get refocused on targets.
I’ve been making these lists of house targets in the beginning of the 12 months for a number of years now. Some years I do higher than others. Final 12 months was a reasonably profitable 12 months, and I hope that this 12 months might be as properly. I’ve fairly a number of massive tasks that I hope to sort out (and end) this 12 months. I’ve by no means fully completed certainly one of these lists in a 12 months, and I doubt that this 12 months can be any completely different. However I prefer to have these lists to maintain me centered on the top aim. So with that in thoughts, listed below are the issues which are on the agenda for 2026.
The Grasp Bed room
The primary order of enterprise this 12 months can be to complete our bed room. I made plenty of headway on this room final 12 months, so I’ll choose up proper the place I left off on the finish of final 12 months. If issues go as deliberate, I imagine I can get this room completed reasonably rapidly after which transfer on to the following venture. Earlier than I can verify this room off of my checklist, I nonetheless have to:
- Cling the upholstered headboard (I made it throughout my break, however it’s simply sitting on the ground proper now)
- End the upholstered mattress base (I acquired most of it completed throughout my break, however it nonetheless wants some particulars completed),
- End the second lamp makeover,
- End stitching the curtains (I made progress on these throughout my break, however nonetheless have a solution to go),
- Make a canopy for the attic entry,
- Construct a TV body,
- Have the brand new art work matted and framed, and
- Paint the little aspect desk by the recliner.
Bed room Exterior
Final 12 months, we had a window eliminated and a door put in within the bed room. It seems to be nice from the within, however it’s nonetheless unfinished on the surface. The entire objective of the door was to offer us a fast exit in case of emergency in order that I might get Matt out of the room simply, however till I construct steps and have ramp entry, it gained’t serve that objective very properly. So I have to…
- Paint the door and the trim,
- Construct steps and determine the ramp state of affairs, and
- Add some landscaping
The Bed room Suite Lobby
This space is so near being completed. It’s principally simply little tasks that stay. I nonetheless have to:
- Sand and paint the ceiling the place the ceiling gentle was,
- Change the broken wallpaper,
- Add small trim across the closet doorway the place the wallpaper ends,
- Paint the doorways (all of them want another coat of paint),
- Transfer the router and patch the little gap within the ceiling,
- Add privateness movie to the French door glass, and
- Set up all the door handles/pulls.
The Bed room Suite Storage Room
The room that has been our fundamental visitor toilet since we moved into this home goes to be transformed right into a storage room. I do know this sounds loopy to most individuals, however this room is inside our master suite suite. And it’s simply bizarre to have a visitor toilet inside a master suite suite. But in addition, we’d like a storage space for Matt’s gear — wheelchair, bathe wheelchair, Hoyer carry, and so forth. And this simply occurs to be the perfect-sized room inside our bed room suite to serve that objective. We additionally have to get the recent water heater out of the sunroom, and that is additionally the proper spot for that. So to show this room from a rest room right into a storage room, I have to…
- Tear out nearly every part,
- Restore or substitute the drywall,
- Have the recent water heater put in in right here,
- Add or substitute flooring (there’s no tile underneath the tub),
- Prepare and set up the room for storage.
The Studio Lavatory (i.e., The New Visitor Lavatory)
This room is a multitude for a number of causes. First, the pump for the bathroom and the sink stopped working properly over a 12 months in the past, so this toilet hasn’t been used since then. But in addition, at one level, I had a plan to show this toilet right into a walk-through pantry. So at that time, all plans to complete this toilet or make repairs had been suspended as a result of I didn’t need to put extra money into it solely to show round and tear it out.
However now, plans have modified. The toilet will not be solely staying, however it is going to be our one and solely visitor toilet for now. I’m hoping that this can be non permanent and that we’ll finally be capable to construct an addition onto our home that features a model new (and extra centrally situated) full visitor toilet. However till that point, this would be the solely visitor toilet in our home. And even when that occurs, our plan is to maintain this toilet in my studio. So to get this toilet guest-ready, I have to…
- Have the pump repaired or changed,
- Wallpaper the partitions, and
- Change some trim (together with across the mirror)
My Workshop
Final 12 months at the moment, I centered plenty of my power on the outside of my workshop. I acquired a lot of the massive tasks completed to show the unique grey, boring field of a constructing into what seems to be like a cute little cottage sitting in our again yard. These tasks had been enjoyable, however aside from the entrance steps and the concrete ramp, they didn’t actually enhance the operate of the workshop. So this constructing has served as storage for the final 12 months. This 12 months, it’s time to show my consideration to the within and switch this constructing right into a useful workshop the place I can use my woodworking instruments. To try this, I have to…
- Have electrical energy run to the workshop,
- Add a number of lighting and retailers,
- Shut up the partitions (in all probability with OSB, not drywall),
- Constructed a number of storage and work tables for my instruments, and
- Set up a storage door opener.
And on the outside, I nonetheless have to…
- Add a planting mattress across the constructing,
- Add exterior lights by the entrance door and the storage door.
The Breakfast Room
I don’t have a present image of the breakfast room, however I’ll add one as quickly as I can. However we’ve used this room as our makeshift bed room for the final 12 months as I’ve been engaged on our new bed room suite. So simply think about the recliners, ground lamp, and desk gone and a queen dimension mattress of their place, and also you’ll have a good suggestion of what the room seems to be like proper now.
However I’ve additionally poached plenty of gadgets from this room during the last 12 months to make use of in several areas of the home. The curtains and wall artwork are actually in my walk-in closet, and one of many benches is in our bed room suite lobby. So now that this room will not function our non permanent bed room, I have to get it again into usable situation and substitute the gadgets I poached for different areas of the home. This gained’t be a serious overhaul, however the plan is to show this again right into a eating space. To get this room completed, I have to…
- Make new curtains,
- Construct or purchase a brand new eating desk,
- Buy new eating chairs,
- Construct or purchase new cupboards to flank the pantry door (extra about this later),
- Make new art work for the partitions flanking the pantry door.
And at last…
The Sunroom
I hate this room a lot, and imagine me, I’d love nothing greater than to tear it down ASAP. However the truth of the matter is that we’d like an area for our exercise gear. So till we’re prepared to begin constructing our addition, the room wants to remain, and we have to use it as a brief house fitness center. I’ve no plans to spend some huge cash on this space because it gained’t be staying long run, however I have to make it usable for the brief time period. I have to…
- Filter all of the stuff (promote, give away, and transfer issues to my workshop),
- Take away the carpet,
- Paint the partitions and ceiling,
- Change the damaged wall unit A/C,
- Get our exercise gear arrange.
In order that’s the place I’m headed this 12 months. In fact, I’d love so as to add different issues, like a full kitchen rework, however I’m attempting to be lifelike so far as time and finances go. I feel if I could make it by means of these tasks, it is going to be a profitable 12 months, after which I can presumably begin off subsequent 12 months with the kitchen rework I’ve been dreaming about.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish 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.
