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!
-Not worry about any sort of double dip, and just enjoy living in my house and neighborhood
-look forward to spring and summer evenings, beers outside at toby’s, laughing at the green parrots in my fig tree and cursing at the racoons in my mulberry
-figure out a way to keep d*mn cats out of my yard
-sell off all the details and salvage I collected while redoing the house that never quite made it in to the mix
-look forward to the trees that are hopefully coming after the Parks Dept cut all the holes in our sidewalk in November
-understair parlor floor powder room (because it will be years before we take over the rental on the ground floor, if ever)
– start working (slowly) on re-siding the sides of my freestanding old frame with some hardiplank
-surf more
-accept that the backyard shack, attic master suite, and basement workroom will be years off, and be thankful for the two plus floors we have
Another year passes and still BHO is homeless.
Get all my matted photographic prints out of boxes on the floor of my “study” [small room separated by sliding doors from the back parlor/family room] where they make it impossible to enter, and move them to the flat files I bought for my “workroom” [the front hall bedroom, where I mount and spot my prints and intend to store them]. Long term, I’d like to move my darkroom from the ground floor laundry room to the cellar, but that’s a BIG project, even if I were to not bother with permits.
haha bho – better luck next year!!
1. Sell before this second dip gets deeper! (NYXR to 100).
***Bid half off peak comps***
I need to get someone to clean out my basement. lots of leftover construction materilas.
lamb..I cannot stress this enough. if most of the bigger renovation stuff is done, get your floors sanded before you move in. I can recommend the guy who did mine.
give away stuff in my apartment, way too cluttered
get new frig…. use my dining table for dining
spend more time at home
I’m closing in about a week, so basically everything is on the list…
Seal the deck! Only 3 years behind schedule. Going to have to do something now that the tornado ripped it up a bit.
Redo the stair kit up to that deck so a toddler can climb it.
Perhaps move my home office into our bedroom to make room for baby #2.
Replace the craptastic bathroom sink vanities.
Probably should scrape and paint tons of molding.
Never get around to installing that crown molding until the kids go to college…