Have you ever ever positioned a stack of containers in a nook of a room, even a room that’s used on a regular basis (like your bed room, household room, kitchen, and so on.) with a plan to maneuver these containers to their supposed vacation spot (storage, thrift retailer dropoff, pal’s home), and months later, these containers are nonetheless there and also you’ve change into “blind” to them? It’s such as you change into so accustomed to seeing them there that you just now not suppose, “I actually need to handle these,” whenever you see them. They’ve change into a fixture within the room that you just look proper over, and it often takes one thing like a go to from an out-of-town pal so that you can “see” the containers once more and notice that they don’t belong there. I’ve accomplished that. A number of instances.
Nicely, I don’t have a stack of containers within the nook of a room that I ignored, however I do have a giant venture that I ignored once I was making my “to do” record for this 12 months. And it’s a doozy. Nevertheless it’s one thing that I’ve change into so accustomed to seeing over the previous few months that I appeared proper previous it.
I’m speaking about our flooring. When you’ll bear in mind, I stained and sealed the flooring in our bed room suite not as soon as, however twice. The primary time I did it, I stained them to match the flooring in the remainder of the home, so that they have been darkish. Right here’s what the bed room flooring appeared like after that first spherical.
And right here’s what the bed room lobby appeared like…
I had dreamed of getting lighter flooring, however I believed I had already locked myself into having darkish flooring as a result of the remainder of the home had darkish flooring. However after giving it some thought, I noticed that if I needed to vary the colour of the flooring in our home, this was my alternative. I wanted to start out within the bed room suite, and I wanted to get it accomplished earlier than I began transferring furnishings into the closet, lobby, and bed room.
So I sanded down the flooring once more, and redid them in a light-weight, pure shade. I don’t have even the tiniest little bit of remorse over that call. I completely love these mild flooring. I can’t even think about our bed room suite with darkish flooring. These mild flooring are good, in my view.
However my “stack of containers within the nook of the room” that I’ve change into so accustomed to seeing that I’ve change into “blind” to it’s this very clear line between the bed room suite flooring and the remainder of the home.
That appears horrible. Nevertheless it hasn’t bothered me as a result of in my thoughts, I’ve identified that the plan is to lighten the flooring in the remainder of the home. There are 5 room/areas which have darkish stained pink oak flooring that must be sanded and sealed with a view to make them seem like the bed room suite flooring — the lounge, music room, kitchen, eating space (sitting room), and pantry.
The primary difficulty is deciding when the perfect time is to redo these flooring. There are two points I want to consider. I need to redo all of those flooring on the similar time moderately than one room at a time. The primary difficulty is that I’ll want a spot to retailer all the furnishings whereas the flooring are being redone. It appears logical that I ought to do the flooring earlier than I begin on my workshop since my workshop is fairly giant and pretty empty in the meanwhile, so that might give me the right spot to maneuver all the furnishings for storage whereas I’m redoing the flooring.
But when I do this, that implies that I’ll must sand across the present kitchen cupboards.
And as soon as I’ve accomplished that, I’m type of locked into retaining the very same format for the brand new kitchen cupboards that I need to construct sooner or later. I’m unsure how I really feel about that. Nearly all the things within the new kitchen shall be in the identical footprint as the present kitchen aside from the again wall of cupboards.
That’s the principle change I’ve deliberate for the brand new kitchen. As a substitute of the decrease and higher cupboards with a countertop, I need to do floor-to-ceiling storage on that wall, and I don’t plan to have a middle half that juts out like I at present have. So I actually need to suppose by way of this. I’m so tempted to simply go forward and do the flooring quickly after I end the bed room suite, however the kitchen appears to be my one roadblock.
One choice can be to go forward and take away these decrease cupboards on that again wall, redo the flooring, after which add some momentary storage alongside that wall till I get to my kitchen rework. I may even go to Goodwill and buy an affordable buffet or one thing like that to place in opposition to that wall. Or perhaps there’s one other resolution that I haven’t considered but.
Both means, I want to determine if there’s a means that I can get these flooring accomplished prior to later. I simply really feel like proper now, earlier than I begin engaged on my workshop, is the perfect time to make the most of that large, free storage space that I’ve sitting in our again yard. As soon as that workshop is completed, I’ll lose out on that free storage, and I actually don’t need to pay extra cash for momentary storage.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance 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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
