Home Sweet Home

It’s not just home sweet home; it’s home sweet diy. We are excited new homeowners looking to make our house a home, one two many diy projects at a time.

Our Master Home To Do (or Redo) List

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I wasn’t ever really a list person. This is likely because I would spend more time trying to find my to-do list than it would take to get done whatever was actually on the list.  Adam is a to-do list freak enthusiast.  I will admit that lists can come in handy, especially with a ginormous project like a house.  A new house.  A BIG new house.

Plus, this is a list I shouldn’t be able to lose.  (I also have secret hopes that this will grow to be the largest post on my blog.)  Even better, maybe the items sitting up here for the whole world to see will motivate us to tackle “The List” on a regular basis.

This list contains must-do’s as well as dream to-do’s.  Maybe I should color-coordinate the list?  Nah… Okay, strike that, colors may be a necessity.  I have new items since we have moved in.  This color will represent the 2012 must do’s and dream to-do’s.  Some to do list items we are currently undecided about.  Like curtain treatments.  We’ve lived without them and like the simplicity of not having them.  Do I still want them?

The List

Moving In Repairs We’ve been moved in for almost a year and still haven’t finished our moving in list.  Yikes!

  • repair the front door and frame (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add a rain guard to the back door
  • re-adhere the laminate in the kitchen
  • replace the end piece of laminate in the kitchen
  • ground fault the electrical outlets in the garage (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • move the location of the electrical outlet in the washer/dryer closet (why did they put it under the water hose?) (after debating we decided this didn’t need to be done, so I will check it off anyway)

Bedroom

  • paint the walls a dark gray (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add chair rail or some other similar architectural element like outlined here
  • add roman shades (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add curtain window treatments
  • get or make a rug
  • make a over the bed light/art sculpture like Ikea Gyllen

Master Office (Our office is in what most people would call the master bedroom.)

  • paint an accent wall green (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add roman shades (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add curtain window treatments
  • get or make a rug

Creativity Room (Don’t snicker; we have 4 bedrooms for one couple!  What would you do with an extra room?)

  • paint the walls a calm yet energizing blue (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add roman shades (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add curtain window treatments
  • get or make a rug
  • add chair rail
  • add beadboard
  • find furniture solutions

SheekGeek Inventory Room

  • paint the walls a calm yet energizing blue (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add roman shades (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add curtain window treatments
  • build a storage shelf of some type

Kitchen

  • paint the walls green (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add roman shades (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add curtain window treatments (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • find a quick fix for the linoleum floor by the back door (covered it with a rug!; checked as complete on 5/14)
  • replace the linoleum floor
  • paint or stain the kitchen cabinets
  • add spice rack inside doors
  • replace garbage can with under cabinet garbage solution
  • add shelving to laundry closet
  • paint inside laundry closet as inspired by designbuildlove
  • organizing solutions for pantry
  • organizing solutions for counter
  • organizing solutions for pots and pans (they don’t fit!)
  • install an overhanging pendant light (checked as complete on 5/14)

Living Room

  • paint the walls (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add a wall stencil or vinyl artwork
  • add roman shades (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add curtain window treatments (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add a chair rail or some other similar architectural element like outlined here
  • tile around the fireplace

Garage

  • install pegboard  (after debating we decided to change this to…) insulate the garage and put up drywall

Upstairs Bathroom

  • paint the walls green
  • add a towel bar (there currently is not one!)
  • add trim around bathroom mirror
  • add bead-board

Half Bathroom

  • paint the walls green (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add a toilet paper roll holder (there currently is not one!) (checked as complete on 5/14)

Master Office Bathroom

  • add roman shades (checked as complete on 5/14)
  • add curtain window treatments
  • add trim around bathroom mirror


Home Paint Color Scheme

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I have deliberated about paint colors for so many hours that I may just be in the days (quite possibly weeks) range now.   I would like to add that this process would have taken less time if Adam liked all the color choices I picked out.  Of course, that would have ruined some of the fun.  I enjoy discussing color choices AND everyone needs a good healthy debate when it comes to decorating.  Plus, in the end I am hopeful it will turn out for the better.

Honestly it wasn’t that bad because we were in agreement about having blues and greens in our home to begin with; it is the hue we argued debated over.  I wanted more earthy tones.  If Adam were writing this post, he would describe my color choices as dreary.  He wanted brighter colors.  And seemingly contradictorily he wanted gray. We both worried about cohesion between rooms and if the colors would match our current and future styles.

Who knows if we accomplished that goal… at least not yet.  I am optimistic; we are new at this.  Apparently (based on my internet research) I should go for posh paints like Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore.  Based on family aand friend’s recommendations, I am going for Valspar.  It is a simple as for its value (and my wallet), Valspar seems like the right choice.  I also have a sneaking suspicion that I will be painting again someday anyway.

This is the final output of our color ideas merged into one.  I conceded and gave the okay to the grays.  Adam conceded and gave the okay to not so bright colors (being a nice wife, I chose brighter colors than my original picks to meet him halfway).

Here is the downstairs.

And here is the upstairs.

I used Color Swatches and good ole’ fashioned eyeballing it to get the colors as close to my color samples as I could.

The Valspar chosen colors are as follows.

  • 6006-3B Lunar Tide in the kitchen, laundry room, and upstairs bathroom.
  • 6006-3C Bayou Shade in the half bath, upstairs office bathroom, and as an accent wall in the office.
  • 5008-1A Montpelier Madison White in living room, hallway, office closet, and possibly one day the  garage (it currently does not have all walls, hence the “possibly”).
  • 4006-5B Adrift in the creativity room and in the SheekGeek inventory room.
  • 6004-2B Mountain Smoke in our bedroom and as an accent wall in the living room.

Seeing in all laid out makes me excited to see it in person.  I can’t wait to paint!