The Project List

My intentions in starting this blog was to document some of the projects we are doing (and ones I want to do) around the house. First up was replacing a toilet in our upstairs bath. Of course things are never as simple as they appear. After realizing we had a leaky toilet (crack in the tank) I got to thinking. If we have to take the toilet out anyways to replace it, why not get rid of the yucky linoleum floors that are in that bath. One thing led to another and next thing I know, I've convinced Dear Hubby to call up his father to come help us demo that bathroom, put in new tile, and likely a new vanity. Unfortunately, I have no pictures yet, as we seemed to lose motivation and are still currently with just one bath. Of course I decided since I was going to repaint one bath, we might as well repaint the other, so I do have pictures of that, which I'll put up tomorrow.

The purpose of this post is to list out the projects I've got planned and will be posting about. So without further ado . . . The Project List:

1. Update the upstairs bath

- New flooring

- Patch drywall - we actually ended up hiring this out, drywall patching = not our forte

- New paint

- New toilet

- New vanity (or freshly painted old one)
- New pictures/accessories

2. Downstairs bath freshening

- New paint on ceiling

- New paint on walls

- New pictures/accessories
- Stain or paint vanity

3. Shutter table (this will take some explaining in a post when I get around to doing it)

4. Reupholster living room chair (fabulous find at Eyedia)
5. Convince DH to let me paint some of the living room a different color
    I managed to talk him into a lovely gray color (Tern Gray from Porter Paints).

6. Complete wall of silver serveware in the kitchen

7. Gardening projects (always so much to do in the yard)
8. Hire painter to paint stairwell and upstairs hall
9. Paint down stairs hall
10. Paint eat-in part of kitchen under chair rail same gray as living room

So, as you can see, I've got quite a list and I'm sure more projects will be added to it as others are completed.

Teaser: Tomorrow's Next Week's post - making a "tin" wallpaper ceiling look real.