You all know that we finished the kitchen, all but backsplash and fridge. Well, the more I work in the kitchen, the less I think I'm ready for a backsplash. Not yet. I still haven't found anything I really like and want to live with for years. I like that Light Sage paint on the walls, too. Rick and I have been talking and talking and I think I'm going to hold off awhile. I'm just not ready yet. We're still going to get the fridge in a couple of months.
So, on that note, we were going to tackle the bathroom next. But now we're considering the bedroom. The carpet is old, as old as the house, and it really needs to go. The cats have really done a number on it. It's ugly and old and just well....ugly. So we've been looking at hardwood floors now. The bedroom is really two rooms that we combined into one long room. Right now, it's painted in Light Sage with White Sage on the ceiling (I took that color from the bedroom and put it into the kitchen; we both really like that color.)
We're going to repaint the bedroom, keeping two walls in Light Sage....not sure about the other two walls, but we're going with something different. (My sister's nominal painting charge is a large pizza, a pan of sticky buns, and a case of Coors Light.
The Coors is to be drunk AFTER the bedroom is painted!)
So while we're doing the floor (I think Rick will do that as he did the floor in the computer room; he said hardwood flooring is easy, but tile is tricky), I'm going to order the new windows for the bedroom (there are two nice, big windows in there....southern exposure), and talk to our contractor about installing them. I do not want replacement windows; I don't like them. They really cut down on the amount of light coming in and I love as much natural light as I can get. These windows are the original ones, so they need to be changed. That should help our heating bill a lot, too.
Rick has already talked to the electrician about installing the ceiling fan; I bought one for Rick several years ago, but he never got around to installing the thing. It's never even been taken out of the darn box. And while he's doing that, we'll put in a new electric register, too, again to try to help with the heating bill.
We're going to work on the bedroom closet. It's a very deep closet, deeper than most, but it's completely unorganized. Because we have a ton of storage boxes and such in there, largely because of Christmas stuff, it's difficult to find room for clothing, so it's pretty much become his closet and I use the one in the computer room. Rick wants to work some ideas to make it more efficient. It will never hold both of our clothes, but it still needs to work better than it does. The door to the roof area is in the ceiling of the closet; we don't use it unless we absolutely have to, but we still need access.
And we're going to install new woodwork throughout. (When we renovated the computer room -- used to be our son's bedroom -- Rick put in new woodwork there and now we have new in the kitchen.)
Somehow, I don't know how, but somehow, that elliptical is going to the basement. It takes up a lot of space in the bedroom.
I really didn't want the house torn up again this year over Christmas, but I think that's what's going to happen.
So, on that note, we were going to tackle the bathroom next. But now we're considering the bedroom. The carpet is old, as old as the house, and it really needs to go. The cats have really done a number on it. It's ugly and old and just well....ugly. So we've been looking at hardwood floors now. The bedroom is really two rooms that we combined into one long room. Right now, it's painted in Light Sage with White Sage on the ceiling (I took that color from the bedroom and put it into the kitchen; we both really like that color.)
We're going to repaint the bedroom, keeping two walls in Light Sage....not sure about the other two walls, but we're going with something different. (My sister's nominal painting charge is a large pizza, a pan of sticky buns, and a case of Coors Light.
So while we're doing the floor (I think Rick will do that as he did the floor in the computer room; he said hardwood flooring is easy, but tile is tricky), I'm going to order the new windows for the bedroom (there are two nice, big windows in there....southern exposure), and talk to our contractor about installing them. I do not want replacement windows; I don't like them. They really cut down on the amount of light coming in and I love as much natural light as I can get. These windows are the original ones, so they need to be changed. That should help our heating bill a lot, too.
Rick has already talked to the electrician about installing the ceiling fan; I bought one for Rick several years ago, but he never got around to installing the thing. It's never even been taken out of the darn box. And while he's doing that, we'll put in a new electric register, too, again to try to help with the heating bill.
We're going to work on the bedroom closet. It's a very deep closet, deeper than most, but it's completely unorganized. Because we have a ton of storage boxes and such in there, largely because of Christmas stuff, it's difficult to find room for clothing, so it's pretty much become his closet and I use the one in the computer room. Rick wants to work some ideas to make it more efficient. It will never hold both of our clothes, but it still needs to work better than it does. The door to the roof area is in the ceiling of the closet; we don't use it unless we absolutely have to, but we still need access.
And we're going to install new woodwork throughout. (When we renovated the computer room -- used to be our son's bedroom -- Rick put in new woodwork there and now we have new in the kitchen.)
Somehow, I don't know how, but somehow, that elliptical is going to the basement. It takes up a lot of space in the bedroom.
I really didn't want the house torn up again this year over Christmas, but I think that's what's going to happen.