Home Goals 2011

Ah... another list. I am the perpetual list maker around here. I thrive on lists.

Main Floor:

New flooring-

When we bought this house the flooring on the main floor was non-existent. Plywood. We painted it, but it was rough and hard to keep clean. When Dylan came along I convinced Bruce to put down real floors. We wanted hardwood, but we just bought a house, just had a baby and were living on one income. Hardwood wasn't in the budget. Laminate was. We bought cheap laminate to tide us over until we could afford to do something else. 5 years, 2 kids and a dog later, the floors are just a little worse for wear. OK they're a lot worse for wear. They are scratched, worn, and in places the finish is coming off. When Pepper was still learning the art of house training she somehow confused Dylan's room with outside. His floor was torn up and is back to plywood. Enter new bamboo flooring.

Master Bedroom:

I showed you a plan for my master bedroom a couple days ago... not sure that's the way we are going to go quite yet... the black and white ticking stripe bedding is wonderful... but we have to take into account the 2 boys and the black dog...

1. New Bed- 4 poster
2. Repaint? The gray is depressing me. It is the wrong gray, prison cellish gray. I have tried to make it work, tried different color combinations and different bedding, and I can't make it work. (Note: it currently looks nothing like this picture except the color is still the same)

3. Bedding

Family Room:

My goal is to have the family room be a space for all of us. It's a rather large room, and it has to be multifunctional. A place to play, to relax, to watch TV, use the computer, ride tricycles... 

1. finish fireplace
2. build bookcases- like this:

3. trim on windows
4. box in posts
5. curtains (they are being hemmed, or sitting in the to-do pile at my seamstress... aka my Mom)

6. art work
7. decor
8. coffee table?

Guest Room 

My guest room has had many lives. It was a guest room/ storage room, then my sister lived with us for awhile and it was her room. It became an office for the business we had for awhile, then it became a combination office/guest room again, then a playroom,then my brother moved in for a bit and it was his room and now it is back to just a guest room. It is still the same colors I painted for the playroom though... and there may be Thomas the train stickers on the wall. I sleep in there when Bruce snores. Let me tell you it is anything but calm and serene to wake up to! 

No wonder my brother moved out! I have no inspiration for this room, except that queen size headboard in the master bedroom that is too small for the bed will be moving downstairs. I may or may not change the white vinyl to something else... depends on how much gumption I have left when I get to it! I seem to have trouble with bedrooms...

Yard- No more MUD!!

Frame art- I bought my keep calm poster a year ago, it still isn't framed! Normally I frame everything in black, but this white washed barnboard is just so nice!!