Being in the house now, we've already noticed that our home improvement patterns have changed. Obviously, projects aren't limited to the weekends anymore, and we've also developed a better understanding of which projects are a priority for us actually living in the house, and which ones are more superficial. For example, we do not have any functioning lights in our stairway/hallway. This is a little dangerous, and very annoying. Since this involves a level of electrical work that is well over my head, we've got an electrician coming to look at the situation next Thursday.
From here on out, Kendra has a developed a "one room a month" plan of attack. We pic out one room that is going to be fixed in a month's time, and all the home improvement efforts are concentrated on that room. For February, that room will be our master bedroom. So far, we've already refinished the hardwood floors and changed the window treatments. I don't have pictures right now, but the master bedroom still needs some serious help. We will be changing the ceiling fan, re-painting the walls, and pimping out the closet.
This seems like a very modest to-do list, but I think this is the approach we have to take for now, or otherwise I think we risk spending all of our time doing home improvement and suffering some major burn out.
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We are about to move into our place after working on it for 6 months. Since we have to drive almost an hour to get to the house, it's been pretty easy to just dedicate every weekend to working on it. Now I'm a little worried that we'll move in and the remaining projects (and there's plenty!) will sort of fall off and we'll learn to live with it.
That's why I LOVE the room-a-month idea!! We may have to adopt that very strategy...
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