2011 House List

Back in January I put together a house list of things I wanted to accomplish this year. Now that it's almost the end of the year, I think it's time to post an update.



Living room:

• Hang a wedding picture on the wall
  I hung a canvas print in the family room, and two prints in our living room!
• Hang and decorate with frame shadow boxes
• I did hang these in the bedroom, and there are a few things on them! 
• Get a new rug
• I decided to take the rug we had in there out, for now. I may get a rug at a later time, but I'm still undecided.
• Hang the mirror (a gift that I haven't gotten around to hanging up yet)
• Done!
• Get 2 chairs and get rid of the Freecycle couch
• Done!
• Get a small coffee table 
• Done! You can see my whole living room in this post.

Kitchen:

• Replace switch plate covers 
• I posted about that right here!
• Get a new dining room table 
• This is not feasible right now, based on the space we have so I'm putting this off until later when I decide how to proceed.
• Find a nicer way to store our plastic to-go containers (please tell me I'm not the only one who battles with this!!)
• For the time being, they are going to remain where they are. For now, it works!
• Fix screen door
• Stain deck (OK, this is outside, but it's off the kitchen, so that counts!)
• This didn't happen this year, for a variety of reasons, but I'm hoping for next summer!

Den:

• Get his and her recliners and a couch
• We are actively saving for this!
• Sell/get rid of Freecycle sectional (seeing a pattern here?)
• This will happen after we buy the recliners, of course.
• Hang Dark Side of the Moon poster (it needs to be leveled...it's kinda a pain to hang, but it needs to be done!)
• Decided not to do this, but I have yet to find some place to put it.
• Replace switch plate covers
• Done!
• Fix weather stripping on the door to the garage
• I have no idea why this didn't get done, because it's a simple task.
• Replace door to garage? (I'm not sure if we want to or need to do this, but it has a doggie door that we don't use, so a new one might be nice)
• Since the current one works fine, I'm not stressing about this right now.
• Find better curtains
• Done! By the way, the whole house is curtained now! (A whole curtain post coming eventually)

Master bedroom:

• Hang something above the bed (we have a big, empty wall!)
• No. I don't know what to put there!
• Sand and refinish my bedside table
• Done!
• Build a stand for the TV and DVD player
• Nope.

Office:

• Repair and rehang broken frame
• Nope. I forgot about this until now. Oops.
• Mount speakers on the wall 
• We decided to sell these instead!
• Find a desk with more storage 
• Thank you Craigslist! They even delivered!
• Sell the desk we currently have 
• Again, Craigslist!
• Organize!!!
• I actually try to avoid the office, so no, this didn't happen.

Guest room:

• Find a small mirror or full length mirror to hang
• Not yet.
• Replace or paint dresser
• Not done. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do with that.
• Spray paint bed frame white
• I'm determined to do this before the winter is out!

So, I didn't get all the things I want to get done this year. I definitely have my work cut out for me in 2012, but that's OK, because we're planning on being in this house for a long time, so I have time!

What do you think? Do you have goals for the year that you accomplished, or didn't accomplish, as the case may be?


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