My TO-DO List


Posted on: July 30th, 2012 by Sandra 46 Comments


This weekend I sat down and wrote a To-Do list because, frankly, unless I walk around in my house with my eyes closed — it’s quite overwhelming.

 

I thought it might be a good thing to write it all down.  Either because the enormity of the list might push me to work faster or because crossing things off the list might give me a sense of accomplishment so even though I can see the million other things that still need to happen, I can feel good about what I’ve done.

Have I mentioned how completely overwhelmed I am in this house?  I have?  Oh, well then, no need to mention it again.  Gah!!!

I got through most of the main floor before I couldn’t take it any more!

Madison’s Room

  1. ReTexture Walls (mud, sand,)
  2. Prime
  3. Paint
  4. Create focal wall (surprise)
  5. Install plank ceiling?
  6. Remove carpet
  7. Install wood flooring
  8. Install baseboards
  9. Install door casing
  10. Install recessed lighting
  11. Install new ceiling fan
  12. Install window coverings
  13. Move in furniture

Library

  1. Build bookcases
  2. Build and install box beam ceiling
  3. Install wainscoting
  4. Install recessed lights
  5. Install baseboards
  6. Install doorway trim
  7. Install feature light (maybe)
  8. Install window treatment
  9. Find the perfect chairs or sofa!
Workshop
  1. Build cabinets
  2. Build doors for cabinets
  3. Put sh*$ away
  4. Build miter saw/ lumber storage station
  5. Instal door (trim)
  6. Create “design” wall
  7. Install dust collection system

Living Room

  1. Relocate air intake vent
  2. Build bookshelf for recessed area (above new air intake vent)
  3. Redo fireplace surround
  4. Installing plank ceiling
  5. Finish retexturing walls (mud, sand)
  6. Prime
  7. Paint
  8. Create in-wall TV cord tube
  9. Build and install wainscoting
  10. Install feature light
  11. Install feature wall above fireplace
  12. Install massive moulding trim around entry door
Kitchen
  1. Remove all cabinets
  2. Remove wall
  3. Tear out floor tile
  4. Relocate gas line
  5. relocate electrical wiring
  6. add water line for pot filler
  7. Build oven cabinet
  8. Install cooktop
  9. Install double ovens
  10. Relocate water line
  11. Build Island
  12. Install sinks
  13. Install dishwasher
  14. Build any new cabinets I will need
  15. Paint all cabinets
  16. Build island countertop
  17. Retexture wall
  18. Paint
  19. Create box beam ceiling
  20. Relocate and add new recessed lights
  21. Install pendants (that I have yet to pick out)
  22. Install under-cabinet lighting
  23. Install wood flooring
  24. Possibly close in walkway to Master Bedroom
  25. Enlarge Pantry
  26. Move all the ADT wiring…
  27. So much I can’t even anticipate what else
  28. ?

Entry

  1. Remove crown moulding
  2. Wall off dining room doorway
  3. Install barel ceiling
  4. Install feature light
  5. Build and instal wainscoting
  6. Create gallery
  7. Build “peg board/coat rack thingamajig”
  8. Install new baseboard

Dining Room

  1. Open doorway in wall where current intake vent is
  2. Remove “wainscoting”
  3. Build and install wall treatment of some kind
  4. Retexture walls that are left uncovered
  5. Paint
  6. Create or buy feature light
  7. Install feature light
  8. Install window treatment
  9. Maybe build banquette seating on three walls around dining table
  10. ?  Haven’t thought about this room a whole lot yet
Second Entry
  1. Install door where window is
  2. Close of door to dining room
  3. Build cubby
  4. Install chalkboard
  5. Install new light
Craft Room (or seating room, music room or office)
  1. Frame wall to close off room
  2. Install French doors
  3. Drywall
  4. Retexture
  5. Paint
  6. Build cabinetry
  7. Build (or buy) feature light or just install new ceiling fan
  8. Install recessed lights
  9. Install window treatments
Mud Room
  1. Frame
  2. Drywall
  3. Mud
  4. Paint
  5. Build “Lockers”
  6. Install lights and new wiring for switch
Laundry Room
  1. Trim out pocket door
  2. Ceiling treatment
  3. Frame out soffit above W/D
  4. Build cabinets
  5. Install cabinets
  6. Pre-Plumb for wall mounted faucet
  7. Build countertop
  8. Install new sink
  9. Install faucet
  10. Tile backsplash
  11. Install new light
  12. Beadboard walls
  13. Paint
  14. Build Barn Door
  15. Install barn door
Hallway
  1. Frame Storage Closet
  2. Build out wall so the whole wall is flush instead of one part jutting out
  3. Build Barn Door for basement
  4. Build Barn Door for closet
  5. Install barn doors
  6. Build and install wainscoting
  7. Maybe install fun lighting (if I’m not sick of this house yet)
  8. Build bookcases and storage furniture
  9. Create Amazing gallery
Master Bedroom
  1. Build and Install Wainscoting
  2. Paint
  3. Install new fan
  4. Install window treatments
  5. Install electric fireplace
  6. Build built-in for recess around fireplace
  7. Build Killer headboard
  8. Find furniture to fill way more space than we need in a MB
Master Bathroom
  1. Tear out entire shower
  2. Remove cabinetry
  3. Tear out and move door/wall to water closet
  4. Tear out the flooring
  5. Tear out tile around tub
  6. RePlumb shower for two shower heads
  7. Build new shower bench with proper slope
  8. create new threshold with proper slope
  9. Create built-in cubby for shampoo etc.
  10. do all the necessary waterproofing
  11. tile the shower
  12. install new shower heads
  13. Install new shower door
  14. Create an access panel for tub mechanics
  15. tile tub
  16. Build new cabinets
  17. paint cabs
  18. Install cabs
  19. Build and install countertops
  20. Install new sinks
  21. Install faucets
  22. Install mirrors
  23. Install lights
  24. Tile
  25. Decide on walls
  26. whatever else I can’t even think of because this is so far down the road
Office
  1. Build cabinets
  2. Fix whatever the J&J bathroom makeover messes up by way of doors and walls
  3. Install recessed lights
  4. ReTexture walls
  5. Paint
  6. Install flooring
Jack and Jill Bathroom
  1. Tear out walls
  2. Tear out floors
  3. Frame walls
  4. Do all the electrical
  5. Lights
  6. cabinets
  7. sinks
  8. faucets
  9. countertops
  10. linen closet
  11. Bedroom closet
  12. ?
  13. ?
  14. ?
Master Closet
  1. Tear out sh*$ that is in there
  2. Build new wardrobe cabinets
  3. Build Shoe cabinets
  4. Create “hidden” jewelry cabinet
  5. Build flocked jewelry drawer
  6. Build sliding mirrored doors
  7. Build glass doors
  8. Install rolling ladder
  9. Plank walls
  10. Paint floor
So… there are enough things here to keep me busy for a while.

I’ll most likely add more to the list faster than I cross things off — but eventually I’ll start chipping away at it.

In times like this, you just have to press on.  Take it one day at a time.  Put one foot in front of the other … and just keep plugging away!

I’m going to post this list as a new Page on my “Navigation Menu” so you can check in and see how I’m doing!  (And because I’ll never see this list again if I stash it somewhere in this house!)













46 comments on “My TO-DO List”

  1. Sarah on said:

    THANK YOU for this post!! I just stepped in the front door of my new house 2.5 weeks ago, the 2nd/last moving truck was taken back 1 week ago and people are constantly asking me if I’m all unpacked and settled in! Are they crazy? I moved 1200 miles, I’m a SAHM of 3 kids 5,6,&8, Hubs works 60hrs a week, and I had house guests for 10 days.
    I haven’t even figured out all the light switches, much less figured out how to live in the house. (Oh you thought you had light switch issues? heehee! Want to turn on the light that’s just outside the family entry, or the light that’s inside next to the door? Good luck with the 3 switches right next to the door, one of which is a mystery. You have to go in the house, up 5 stairs and another 4 feet to find those switches. Which are grouped with switches for yet another room, whose door is 6 feet away from there. HA!)

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  2. Elizabeth on said:

    I am overwhelmed for you – but I love it. I am so much more productive when I have tons of things to do like this.
    You are seriously the coolest and my new role model.

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  3. Kym on said:

    WOW! Your list made me want a nap! I cant wait to read more and see the afters. Good Luck and God Bless!

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