Current Lists

Thanks Betina, for your query about current lists. Oh boy mine’s a doozy. Suffice it to say I still have not changed out our car tags, updated any driver’s licenses, changed the mailing address for all of our bills, or unpacked all the boxes.

What have I done? I picked paint colors for the house. In case you’re wondering (and I know that you are!)  the new house color for the main rooms is Martha Stewart Cappuccino. For the dining room and the half bath: Martha Stewart Caraway Seed.

Here’s the list that is making me happy while I walk around the unpacked boxes and happily pretend for the moment that they don’t exist:

Future House Plans:

1. Paint all the colored ceilings a nice happy white.
2. Replace every insanely mismatched ceiling fan with white ceiling fans that will cool the rooms, but disappear into the soon-to-be white ceilings.
3. Replace the appliances in the kitchen. This actually should be number one, because this will happen about 1 week after we close on this house. (we’re doing a lease purchase and the oven is terrible enough for me to actually not ever want to use it. ever.)
4. Find the perfect shade of granite to use for the countertops.
5. And maybe, if I’m lucky, also find the perfect tile to use on the backsplash. (Why won’t Ernie love Subway tiles like I do??)
6. Knock out part of the wall from the living room to the kitchen and make that doorway bigger. It so needs to be bigger.
7. Close in the strange open doorways on either side of the double fireplace with built in bookcases in the living room. But we are definitely leaving those awesome windows!
8. Hang bead board in the sunroom. Not all the way up the walls, but how high?? Decisions, decisions.
9. Take down every set of blinds and replace with curtains. I really like to see out my windows.
10. Build built-in bookcases across the far wall of the sunroom.
11. Paint the master bathroom a much more manageable color.
12. Replace the current shower and tub with a larger tiled shower and a claw foot tub. (Ernie’s idea and it’s genius, in my opinion).
13. Eventually replace the some- not all- of the flooring. What do you think of my friend Jenny’s brick floors? (I love them!)
14. And to make myself feel better, I already changed out the hardware in the kitchen and it makes a huge difference! (please ignore my mess) Check it out: You can see more of the new hardware back in the kitchen picture I posted at the very start of this post.