I am so excited! I'm ready to start updating our home. We purchased our home about ten years ago--a small house that was only a couple of years old. Very little needed to be updated, but there were some things I wanted to change. However, because we were under a time crunch, we painted and moved in over the weekend before school started back for me. I wanted to be in the house and ready to go back to work on Monday. Amazingly, it happened. Since then, I've repainted the living room and dining room, had the front porch and back deck stained, and cut down the hedges in the front of the porch. Truly, not a lot. I have plans! My list is long. It has multiple projects, and it's labor-intensive.
Exterior
- Repair steps
- Paint the glider
- Reupholster glider cushions
- Extend Deck
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| Paint the front porch |
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| Paint the patch and light fixtures. |
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| Pressure wash and paint shutters. |
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| Lay brick paver walkway and plant flower garden. |
- Living Room
- Paint
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| Replace "fake hardwood" linoleum. |
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| Make a slipcover for the sofa. |
- Dining Room
- New flooring
- Paint
- Refinish farm table
- Build "built-in" bench seat/banquette
- Build storage/buffet
- Kitchen
- New flooring
- Paint cabinets
- Window garden
- Half Bath
- New flooring
- Paint
- Utility Room
- Add cabinets over washer/dryer
- Build bench w/storage cubbies
- ORGANIZE
That's the first floor. There's still the basement and my craft room upstairs to finish, as well as adding new flooring in the two bathrooms (and maybe the bedrooms).
I am ready to start...but it's always an issue of waiting for someone to help with the big projects. So, this weekend (while I am home alone), I started two of the smaller projects. I'm going to reupholster the glider cushions and start refinishing the farm table.
Check back with me to see the final results!
Check back with me to see the final results!
Last spring I recovered the unexciting (dirty) cushions with some fabric I picked up cheap at an estate sale. The $5 bolt of fabric sat in my basement for two years waiting for the perfect project. I was excited to finally cover the soiled boring beige.
Then last summer my son brought home a 9-month-old yellow lab. Molly was being rehomed because the previous owner worked out of town and had to keep her in the small kennel all day. We didn't have a fenced in yard, so until the wireless fence arrived, Molly would be a house dog.
What we didn't expect was for Molly to chew up everything in sight! Goodbye, fishing pole (and a gazillion other things)!
We also didn't expect her to commandeer our glider (with the newly covered cushions) as her own.
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| Paw prints in Georgia red clay! |
Guess what? Red clay does not come out of the white cotton. So by the end of July, my two-month-old toile covered cushions were relegated to the shed, and I was on the hunt for some new ones. I looked all summer! I refused to pay those high prices. Finally, summer turned into fall, and I started back to school. No time to think about cushions now.
Then last March, I attended the National Science Teachers Association Conference in Atlanta. A day out of the classroom! Whoot! Whoot! I totally nerded out amid the science displays! On Day Two, I headed back for more! Halfway through the morning, we were evacuated! Water cascaded out of the ceiling onto one of the displays and poured down the aisles. With a few hours free, I googled Goodwill and spent the time perusing their wares. I happened upon some really good finds: a bolt of upholstery for $5, silk curtains for $2, and an iron lamp for $4. I know I bought other things (I spent $35), but I can't remember now.
Yesterday, I pulled out the cushions and the bolt of fabric and spent a couple of hours cutting, pinning, and sewing. Project numero uno: CushionsFinished!
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| Now to paint the glider! |
