New Year's Housing Resolutions
If you own a house (or an apartment, for that matter) you undoubtably have a list of both chores that you NEED to do as well as dream improvements you’re dying to do when your checking account permits it. Let’s hear what your New Year’s resolutions are in the home improvement department. Personally, we’re hoping…
If you own a house (or an apartment, for that matter) you undoubtably have a list of both chores that you NEED to do as well as dream improvements you’re dying to do when your checking account permits it. Let’s hear what your New Year’s resolutions are in the home improvement department. Personally, we’re hoping to splurge for some built-in bookshelves in the living room and upgrade the sound system. Unfortunately, unless ad rates and demand spikes, moving the kitchen down to the parlor floor will have to wait ’til 2012 or later…Have a great New Year. See you on the other side!
Renovate the kitchen, which we intended to have done before kid #2 comes out, but with that only a couple weeks away, no dice (it’s a rental, but we’re here for the long haul). And then move all the kitchen stuff we’ve been keeping in the dining room (kitchen cabinets gross and unusable) to where it belongs.
Sew curtains for the livingroom, which hopefully will happen in time, since the fabric is all ready to go.
Either finally get a studio or at the very least re-organize the room I’m keeping all my stuff in. Hopefully the former.
Get a couple more pieces of art framed and up on the walls.
Figure out wtf to do with these CDs we haven’t unpacked because, hey, what do you use CDs for, anyway?
Buy my 2011 hard drives before we hit Feb.
And, if we win the lottery, buy ‘our’ beautiful derelict-tending house (1340 dean?) across the way. sigh. it’s a heartbreaker. Please, somebody buy it and renovate. (and then die suddenly and leave it to us in your will)
(bob- shouldn’t you be resolving to go digital?? 😉
Get an air conditioner that doesn’t go in a window — probably a Mr. Slim. (A new A/C was last year’s project. It went poorly.) Paint everything. New floors and ambitious gardening will probably slide to 2012 at least. Maybe I’ll indulge my OCD tendencies by standardizing the doorknobs/outlets/etc.
If I won the lottery I’d buy the yellow house in Brooklyn Heights at the corner of Orange and Willow. Or the one in the Albemarle Reno.
We got pictures up today even though I was deathly hungover. There’s hope.
I really wanted built-in bookshelves, but then I came to my senses and bought a Rakks system from shelfshopguy.com. Highly recommended! Solid, lovely, and a third of the cost of built-ins, plus I can re-arrange them later if my needs change. Not Victorian/Edwardian by any stretch of the imagination, but then again my apartment dates from the ’20s. Folks not committed to an originalist aesthetic should check them out – Guy is a total sweetheart, to boot, and talked me out of a more expensive option that would have served me less well.
My resolution for the new year is to renovate my single bathroom, and to finish upgrading the kitchen. And not to bankrupt myself in the process. I started planning in the fall but then work deadlines intervened.
Everybody should get a Toto washlet toilet seat.
Fun for the entire family and big savings on tp.
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Wasder,
Who did your deck? We’re doing one in the next month or two…looking for recs (btw: the contractor for your reno was our contractor…did AC do it for you again?).
DIBS– have requested samples from these guys– http://www.elmwoodreclaimedtimber.com — but the sylvan brandt stuff looks fantastic! thanks again! I’ll have plenty of time to consider the options while I deal with the DOB…
Thanks DIBS–got the permit a few months ago and got the construction done over the holidays. Hopefully will be able to clear my name with DOB now.
Whatever is most likely to fall apart on my ass first. (We just bought 6 months ago. House needs everything. We can only afford so much.)
Unless GC tells me otherwise:
1. New hot water heating system
2. New windows for front facade. Can’t afford front and back, so rear will continue to be an energy-efficiency drain on our wallets.
3. New facade. Big cracks, falling apart.
Dream project, not happening: New garden-level kitchen opening onto presentable garden.