There are so many things that I would like to do to our house this year but due to time and money I will set realistic goals. 
- Kids bathroom (bead board, paint trim/door/cabinet, new mirrors, light over tub)
- stairs and railings (remove carpet, replace treads and risers, paint)
- remove carpet and put down wood in loft and upstairs hallway
- paint over as much orangey ick as possible!
- have electrician out to install ceiling fan in family room, add electrical outlets where I think there should be some and put in additional recessed lighting in kitchen
- put ceiling fan in craft room (Ed)
- organize and set up/decorate craft room
- Laundry room (replace base cabinet and countertop, paint walls, put up bead board, paint cabinets/trim/window/doors)
- Paint the boys room (added 1-25-11)
My first project will be the kids bathroom upstairs. It started off looking like this when we bought the house:
(When we moved in)
And it now looks like this:
The plan is to take down the towel bars and put bead board on that wall with hooks for towels, paint anything in there that is orangey ick to white (including the cabinet) and to replace the builder mirror with 2 mirrors if and when I find some I like. I love the color of the bathroom walls but I do need to do some touch up painting. Also, I would like to add a recessed light over the shower but that will depend on whether or not Ed wants to climb in the attic to do it. If not we will have an electrician do it eventually. I am going to go ahead and start working on the bathroom in the next couple of weeks. We have to wait to begin anything else until it warms up a bit.
Our MAJOR project for this year (planned as of right now) is going to be the stairs. We are going to rip out the worn out, icky carpet and replace the treads and risers with solid oak.
(When we moved in)
We would use the wood steps that are currently there but they are of very low quality plus there is a gap between the step and the wall on each side (we are guessing to tuck the carpet). We will paint the treads a dark brown and the risers white. We will also paint the railing to match the stairs. If cost permits we would like to rip the carpet out of the upstairs hall and loft and put down wood at the same time we do the stairs (let’s hope).
(When we moved in)
The laundry room.
(Before we moved in)
I spend A LOT time in there due to the enormous amount of laundry I do. Honestly I do probably 30+ loads a week when you add in towels, sheets and blankets. The room itself isn’t huge but it isn’t the smallest I have seen. It’s actually the biggest laundry room of all the houses we looked at before buying this one! The problem is that it seems very dark. Of course there is only one small window and all that orangey ick is everywhere. I know just painting over the orangey ick is going to make it feel much bigger but I also want to fix it up so that I actually don’t mind being in there so many hours a day! I have not yet decided on a color but I still have time. I will get the orangey ick painted white first then decide what I want to paint the walls.
And in my laundry room is my pantry. It is an odd place for a pantry but it’s right off the kitchen so it works well.
(Please excuse the mess, I have 2 teenagers and two 5 year olds here!)
As you can see, more orangey ick. Even the shelves are that color! I want to paint white on the orangey ick then the walls inside the pantry whatever color I choose for the laundry room. I would also like to do some stenciling like Shelly at House of Smith’s did. It is awesome, check it out if you haven’t already seen it!
My craft room/office. I moved my computer from the front living room to the spare bedroom a few months ago. I was really tired of people sitting behind me on the sofa reading my email and telling me where to play on Mahjong (Marisa, Ed). Ed and I made a trip to IKEA in Michigan and pick up the Expedit workstation so I would have space to organize and store my stuff.
soure: IKEA
I haven’t gotten far.
This actually looks better today than it did yesterday. Yesterday you couldn’t see the top of that table! lol There is still a lot of work to do in this room, look at that closet!
I am sure I will be adding to this list as we go through the year but hopefully I will get to cross stuff off the list as well. Wish me luck!
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