2025 Grasp Listing of Residence Objectives

And someplace alongside the way in which, we additionally plan to show the present kitchen right into a eating room, and the present breakfast room and pantry into a brand new kitchen. So ultimately, our home that regarded like this just some months in the past…

…will find yourself wanting like this when all is claimed and achieved…

However I significantly doubt that each one of that may occur this yr, so I’m sort of getting forward of myself. For now, let me think about my plans for 2025, beginning with what I imagine might be my largest mission of the yr, and that’s our main bedroom suite. That mission might be divided into three separate elements, beginning with…

The Grasp Bed room:

As I discussed, the room that was once our house fitness center is now going to be our main bedroom. The excellent news is that lots of work has already been achieved on this room. The hardwood flooring that was destroyed and the outdated (and insufficient) subfloor have been eliminated. New vapor barrier, insulation, and subfloor has been put in. The partitions that used to kind the large closet within the room have been eliminated to make the brand new bed room as massive as attainable.

Issues are an actual mess proper now, however I feel it’s going to be lovely when it’s completed. There’s lots to do, although! As a way to flip this present mess into an inviting, cozy, and exquisite bed room, I must:

1. Set up hardwood flooring,
2. Sand, stain, and seal hardwood flooring,
3. Shut up scuttle gap in ceiling,
4. Paint ceiling,
5. Restore and prime partitions,
6. Set up wainscoting,
7. Set up crown molding,
8. Dangle grasscloth wallpaper,
9. Set up wall and ceiling trim within the bed room entrance,
10. Make an upholstered headboard,
11. Construct a reasonably mattress body to cowl the not-so-pretty body of our adjustable mattress,
12. Construct two bedside tables,
13. Sew velvet curtains,
14. Make or discover paintings,
15. Create a studying nook (which can embrace reupholstering a chair),
16. Decorate to complete.

Closet and Laundry Room:

I’ve to confess that I’m much more enthusiastic about this room than I’m about our new bed room. In my total grownup life, I’ve lived in 9 totally different residences and homes, and but I’ve by no means had an sufficient closet. So as soon as this room is completed, it will likely be a dream closet for me.

To show this right into a walk-in closet and laundry room, I’ll must:

1. Set up hardwood flooring,
2. Sand, stain, and seal hardwood flooring,
3. Set up a dryer vent,
4. Set up an outlet for the dryer (the wiring is already there),
5. Construct cupboards or cabinets above the washer and dryer,
6. Construct closet cupboards/cabinets/group,
7. Construct an island,
8. Prime and paint cupboards and island,
9. Set up wallpaper,
10. Set up a reasonably chandelier or pendant gentle,
11. Set up much more lights for particular areas.

Hallway:

I’m not fairly positive what to name this space. I’ve been calling it the hallway since we purchased the home as a result of it was an precise hallway by which the three unique bedrooms and the visitor bed room have been positioned. However now that this entire space goes to be the master suite suite, it appears unusual to name it the hallway. I’ve flirted with calling it an anteroom a number of occasions, however that appears a bit too formal for our home. So in case you have an concept of what I can name this space, please let me know.

So within the meantime, it’s nonetheless the hallway, and that is what it seems like proper now…

I haven’t determined but if I need to preserve the striped partitions, or if I need to do one thing totally different. I could preserve the stripes for now, after which do one thing extra dramatic (like a wallpaper mural) after we construct the addition, and after the visitor lavatory entrance has been moved out of this space and the present lavatory doorway has been closed up. However both approach, the partitions clearly want some work. So to complete this space, I’ll must:

1. Set up hardwood flooring,
2. Sand, stain, and seal hardwood flooring,
3. End the French doorways to bed room suite,
4. Set up crown molding,
5. Paint the partitions,
6. Paint or the gold leaf full-length mirror,
7. Construct an upholstered storage bench,
8. Create a brand new scuttle gap to the attic,
9. Create a brand new scuttle gap to the crawl area,
10. Make or purchase paintings.

My Workshop:

I’m nonetheless a bit stunned that I even have a workshop. At the start of final yr, constructing a workshop for me wasn’t even in our plans for the yr. And whereas I’m so grateful to have it, it’s not but useful, and it seems fairly plain.

I’ve some plans for the surface to make it seem like a bit cottage and to match our home. I must:

1. Make and set up shutters,
2. Paint the entrance door,
3. Set up a contact pad lock,
4. Set up skirting,
5. Construct steps,
6. Construct flower packing containers,
7. Do one thing to make the storage door look fascinating,
8. Add lighting.

So far as the within goes, I don’t but know precisely what I’ll be doing. I would like to actually suppose by how I would like the entire thing designed, and as of proper now, I haven’t even given the structure any thought in any respect. I’ve given far more thought to how I need to exterior to look than how I would like the within designed. However clearly, on the very minimal, getting the within completed and usable would require me to…

1. Run electrical energy to the constructing,
2. Set up plywood (or one other stable materials that isn’t drywall) to the partitions,
3. Add flooring (I haven’t determined which flooring to make use of but),
4. Construct a rolling scrap lumber storage cart,
5. Construct a big work desk (or tables),
6. Construct tables for every one among my massive saws/instruments,
7. Construct or purchase software group,
8. Set up a storage door opener.

I’m positive there might be a complete lot extra to that mission as soon as I get it utterly deliberate. However first, I’ll get the enjoyable tasks achieved on the surface to make the constructing look cute. The surface was simpler to plan since I would like the constructing to match our home.

The Entrance of the Home:

One other enormous and surprising factor we did final yr was lastly have our concrete driveway poured. I’ve LOVED with the ability to pull into the driveway, park beneath the carport, and go into the home by the again door. And now that we lastly have our driveway, I’m actually feeling motivated to get some tasks achieved within the entrance of the home.

I’m not going to deceive myself and inform myself that I can get every little thing, together with landscaping, achieved this yr. However on the very least, I’d wish to…

1. Redo (and end!) the skirting on the entrance porch,
2. Re-install the shutters that got here down,
3. Re-install the entrance porch tape lights that fell down,
4. Mark off planting beds and add borders,
5. Add lighting to driveway and sidewalk.

The Sunroom:

Y’all, I really feel like that is the yr that I’ll lastly be capable to say goodbye to the sunroom.

I’ve been desirous to tear this room down for years, however it’s the place my washer and dryer hookups have been all these years, and it’s additionally the place our scorching water heater is positioned. However as soon as our closet/laundry room combo is completed, I’ll now not want this room for a laundry room. And as soon as my workshop is organized, I’ll now not must retailer instruments and provides within the sunroom. That simply leaves the new water heater. And I might be completely ecstatic if I may…

1. Have a tankless water heater put in,
2. Have French doorways put in in the back of the music room (which we’d need to do anyway, briefly, whereas the addition is being framed, so why not do this before later?), after which
3. TEAR DOWN THE SUNROOM!!!!!

Y’all, I need to make that occur so badly!!! I would like that room gone. I really feel just like the again of our home is de facto beginning to form up now that the carport is completed and usable, the driveway is poured, and the workshop will quickly look very cute. However this sunroom is such an eyesore. Even when we will’t construct the addition this yr, I nonetheless need the sunroom gone. I’ve been anxious to tear that room down for therefore lengthy now, and it will be such a momentous event if I may make that occur this yr.