This house is all kinds of half finished projects. I get one project to a point of somewhat functionality and then move on to another area because we’ve reached our tolerance threshold for the mess there. It feels like I’m fighting a wild fire –where embers keep starting little fires all around me. I have the BIG MAIN fire in my peripheral vision at all times but I have to maintain the little ones too so they don’t get out of control.
Or maybe this is what it feels like to be a chicken without a head. I’m not sure which analogy fits better as I’ve never actually fought a wild fire OR been a headless chicken.
What I do know is that it feels chaotic but also feels like this is how I HAVE to tackle this house. So while the laundry room, kitchen, living room, dining room and entry are all still not done I have once again sidestepped into another project! The hall closet. Remember this one? When I had my handymen here helping out after I had my back surgery I had them do a few random projects that had nothing to do with the kitchen — because I was just so excited about all the stuff that could get hammered out FAST by someone OTHER THAN ME. 🙂
And since the closet went in, the armoire (that was sitting in the empty space where the closet is now) has been sitting in the hallway (along with lots of the previous kitchen drawers that we sift as we need something in our half functioning kitchen). It’s a bit ridiculous!
The armoire holds a lot of crap that has nowhere else to go because there was NO STORAGE IN THIG HUGE HOUSE! None except the bedroom closets.
N-O-N-E! (eye roll — head shake–grumble!)
Sooo…this has been fun to walk through all day, every day as we go downstairs, upstairs or to our bedroom.
I just finally got sick of it so I spent the last week and a half working on the closet so we could actually put stuff in it. Because what good is a bare closet?
…to be continued
will the closet house coats and such or is it to be a utility closet? It looks beautiful. Love how the floor flows from one area to the next.
Remember to take deep breaths during the day and set small goals for yourself. A wise woman recently explained the value of goals with time expectations set on them. That advice is working to motivate me to work on my project every week.
Do you have a realistic goal when your house will be complete? Better still, do you have goals for each room?
Yeah for wise women. LOL 😉 I don’t set goal but I do try to focus on small tasks. One at a time.
Hi there, I totally don’t mean to be rude. I really enjoy reading your blog and seeing your beautiful work however when I get to the end of post such as today’s, I get really frustrated. I don’t get a lot of free time in my day to spend reading the blogs I like. I mainly do it while nursingy baby and therefore when I spend the time reading your post and get to the end and find a to be continued I feel like my time has been wasted. I’d much rather spend the time reading a longer post with a reveal then get “teased” and feel like in order to finish what I’ve started I now have to keep checking your blog to see if you’ve posted the results, which takes up more time. I’d rather have fewer posts with more content than small teaser post more often. My time is precious as is yours I’m sure. Please just let us read about a project in its completion.
Thank you.
Hi Larua. I post as often as I have something to share or when I feel like it. Sawdust Girl is kind of my project diary — that I share with everyone along with helpful tips and tutorial to try to share my knowledge and experience. I’m sorry you feel frustrated about the content today but I can’t change my blog to suite every readers’ needs and wants. I’m just going to keep on keeping on with the way I share on my blog and let people figure out if and how they want to read it.
Looking good! To the commenter above, you can follow blogs on a service like bloglovin.com and whenever someone adds a post, you can see it on your app or have it emailed to you.
So funny – My dream is to remove a closet near the garage entry so I can have a little open space like a small mudroom.
Of course, I want to turn the small home office near there into a butler’s pantry. 😉
I love your projects, I love your posts, and I love your blog. The way you write things reveals a bit about your personality. So I guess I like your personality! Keep up with the good work. As a reader I would like to see a floor plan schematic of the house before and after to kind of piece things together on how you’ve done things. I have a wide-open spaces broken up by closets & bathrooms which doesn’t flow very nicely. I like to look at schematics to garner ideas from. Could you help out with that?
I absolutely love the teasers and the way you write. It reveals a little bit about you and how you work and come up with your ideas. I would however like to see schematics of your floor plan before and after. I also have wide open spaces in my house broken up by awkwardly placed closets and bathrooms. It would be nice to be able to see you before and afters to get some ideas. thanks!
Ha ha! Sorry for the multiple posts. There was a delay in the first one and I didn’t see that a posted. So I wrote the second one. I am not stalking you!
I am glad to see I am not the only one with drawers in a hallway! We have temporary occupancy in the home we are building and I completely understand the living in during construction/ remodeling stage. While it is unnerving and frustrating at times ( us and GC to be fair), everything in time! I have learned a lot about myself, family and the importance of gratitude and patience. Thank you for sharing your story and experience!
I know exactly how you operate … I’m the same way. My boyfriend said, “I don’t understand why you don’t finish one project before moving on to the next!”
The explanation is simple: I can’t finish the siding because it got cold outside and then it snowed and then we had 64 straight days of temperatures below freezing. I haven’t put the final coat of paint on the crown molding in the living room because I want to paint that room my kitchen, bedroom and living room all at once since it involves moving around scaffolding. I had to finish the cabinet above the fridge to do the crown in the kitchen. I can’t do anything with my bedroom until after the heating season since the heat leak in the chimney caused condensation and destroyed the wall and ceiling around it. Do you need me to explain more? Nevermind, I’ll just finish painting this game bookcase I built for the living room. I had to build it because nothing stock would work for that niche.
That’s a simple explanation to me!
You can do/be both. A chicken on fire. 😉 This space is fabulous!