The neve-ending renovation and updating of my home is somewhat overwhelming for someone with limited time, limited ability, and limited budget.
The list
1. A new coffe table (chrome with glass top, oblong or circular as a near second choice). Can't find one. In the end, we may have to take our third or fourth choice.
2. Side tables. We like the ones at Pottery Barn that are glass and chrome, but they're too tall and too expensive (for PB).
3. Big leather comfy chair. Not so hard to find, but hard to decide on at a decent price.
4. New bed (headboard and footer, etc.). We've found one we like, but we haven't ordered it. Thank the gawds we've at least decided.
5. Floor lamp.
6. Lighting over our dining room table.
7. We have much art work being framed right now, but then we have to decide where to put it.
8. A compact desk--the kind where everything closes up and it just looks like a small piece of closed furniture. What's that called? Anyway, one of those. Must fit laptop, printer, shredder, and some filing.
9. We need to completely gut and rehad our bathroom (our only bathroom, which makes it a challenge). That will have to happen within 18 months just for our sanity and to take advantage of sluggish economy.
10. Closet doors. We currently have none. We know what we want, but need to hire someone to make and install them. That includes framing out the doorways properly too.
11. New floating cork flooring in the kitchen--thankfully that we can do ourselves and at very little expense, and
12. a backsplash in the kitchen. The SS tiles we like are shockingly expensive so we'll have to go with something else. My parents are visiting and my mother offered to do this for us. But that first requires replastering the very uneven walls.
And off into the future we need to move a wall (and potentially the closet which will make #f10 all for naught). It might also include having built-in bookshelves made. We also need to have every single wall re-plastered smooth.
Ohhhh, it's such a long list.
How about you?
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The list
1. A new coffe table (chrome with glass top, oblong or circular as a near second choice). Can't find one. In the end, we may have to take our third or fourth choice.
2. Side tables. We like the ones at Pottery Barn that are glass and chrome, but they're too tall and too expensive (for PB).
3. Big leather comfy chair. Not so hard to find, but hard to decide on at a decent price.
4. New bed (headboard and footer, etc.). We've found one we like, but we haven't ordered it. Thank the gawds we've at least decided.
5. Floor lamp.
6. Lighting over our dining room table.
7. We have much art work being framed right now, but then we have to decide where to put it.
8. A compact desk--the kind where everything closes up and it just looks like a small piece of closed furniture. What's that called? Anyway, one of those. Must fit laptop, printer, shredder, and some filing.
9. We need to completely gut and rehad our bathroom (our only bathroom, which makes it a challenge). That will have to happen within 18 months just for our sanity and to take advantage of sluggish economy.
10. Closet doors. We currently have none. We know what we want, but need to hire someone to make and install them. That includes framing out the doorways properly too.
11. New floating cork flooring in the kitchen--thankfully that we can do ourselves and at very little expense, and
12. a backsplash in the kitchen. The SS tiles we like are shockingly expensive so we'll have to go with something else. My parents are visiting and my mother offered to do this for us. But that first requires replastering the very uneven walls.
And off into the future we need to move a wall (and potentially the closet which will make #f10 all for naught). It might also include having built-in bookshelves made. We also need to have every single wall re-plastered smooth.
Ohhhh, it's such a long list.
How about you?
b
