house goals – 2012 edition

Now that we’ve rung in the new year, it’s time to set some goals for 2012…house goals!

Last year was the first time I set house goals, although I was probably a bit too ambitious with my 2011 goals!

Not to be outdone by myself, I’ve set equally if not more ambitious house goals for 2012, and hopefully I’ll complete a few more than last year.

Here are my 2012 house goals, in no particular order…

1. Create a striped painting for an empty wall in the family room
2. Finish dining/living room walls with bamboo wall treatment
3. Mod up the family room by completing new pillow covers
4. Continue the drop cloth revolution by making drop cloth curtains for kitchen sliding door
5. Sew dog pillow beds
6. Add board & batten to front door entry hall
7. Paint master bathroom
8. Paint master bedroom
9. Create family photo wall
10. Build Ikea hack cat box cabinet

And last year’s projects still to be completed…

1. Repaint the stairway wall
2. Clean up my office
3. Scour my teenage daughter’s room
4. Get that damn satellite dish off the roof
5. Buy a dishwasher
6. Tile the kitchen back splash
7. Paint the kitchen
8. For the love of all things holy, DECLUTTER!

As you can see, it’s an expansive list.  And seeing how much I didn’t complete last year, I’ll have to work twice as hard to get through my list this year, so wish me well!

Here’s a little more detail around the projects…

1. Create a striped painting for an empty wall in the family room

Here’s the empty wall…

Here’s the inspiration from Jen’s house over at Wanting What I Have…

You can see a tour of her house at The Handmade Home. Jen’s home and style is A-MA-ZING!

Been thinking of making a striped art piece for a while now, and now it’s time to get moving!

2. Finish dining/living room walls with bamboo wall treatment

I literally dreamed this one up.  Had a dream that I was doing this wall treatment, so when I woke up, I thought, what the heck!

Here’s the space…

You can even see the bamboo in the corner.

The rest is top secret until do the project!

3. Mod up the family room by completing new pillow covers

I started to add a touch of mod around the house, especially in the family room, in 2011.

I also purchased fabric to sew new pillow covers that will add more of a touch of mod to the family room.  Need to get sewing to finish up that project.

4. Continue the drop cloth revolution by making drop cloth curtains for kitchen sliding door

Currently we have white plastic vertical blinds.

Need I say more?

5. Sew dog pillow beds

Will this make the little dog stop climbing on the furniture? I sure hope so!

6. Add board & batten to front door entry hall

A seriously ambitious project, but now that I’ve got it in my head, I’m dying to do it! I think it will give an otherwise boring area a bit of character and visual interest. (Please ignore all of the Christmas undecorating whatnot. As you may have guessed, that’s not part of the design. That’s just keeping it real.)

7. Paint master bathroom

Or perhaps I should say hire someone to paint my master bathroom.  I’ve had the color picked out for about 5 years, so I’m thinking that this project has cured long enough!

8. Paint master bedroom

Ditto on hiring someone to paint the master bedroom. With vaulted ceilings, this is not a room I will be painting on my own.

Currently shopping in the gray department.

9. Create family photo wall

I’ve been percolating on this idea for a while now too. Planning to combine family pics with a collection of something vintage…more to come on that later.

10. Build Ikea hack cat box cabinet

Now that I’ve discovered Ikea hackers, I feel that I must build a super-secret cat box cabinet.

And then, there are the projects still lingering from last year’s house goals…

11. Repaint the stairway wall

The stairwell wall has already been painted, but it still needs another coat.

Apparently it’s taken me a while.

12. Clean up my office

This seems as if it should be a simple enough project, but it’s my combination office, craft room, and general lounging area.  And it’s been neglected for quite some time.  Lots of filing and decisions to be made about what stays and what goes.

13. Scour my teenage daughter’s room

While I’ve already started this project, there’s still plenty to be done before it can be considered safe to be inhabited by non-teenage humans.

14. Get that damn satellite dish off the roof

It’s still there. Waiting.

Need to find a reasonable roofer.

15. Buy a dishwasher

Although my house is only 5 1/2 years old, the dishwasher is no longer working.  I’ve already spent a small fortune to get the problem diagnosed, but it’s still not fixed.  It could be fixed, but the dishwasher repair guy told me that it’s a design flaw, and would likely be broken again within a year.  So I opted to not fix it and put the money toward a new dishwasher.  In the meantime, I’m using a $2.99 solution…a dishpan, and frankly, not doing such a great job of keeping up with the dishes.

16. Tile the kitchen back splash

Still planning to tile the back splash with those cool & funky little glass tiles.

Hopefully it will happen this year!

17. Paint the kitchen

Definitely need to add some color. Enough said.

18. For the love of all things holy, DECLUTTER!

There’s probably not a whole lot more that needs to be said about this issue.  This is an ongoing project for me, and this year I need to hit it extra hard. I’ve been leaning more toward minimizing than maximizing, and I am going to continue to follow that trend, little by little, throughout the year.

Those are my house goals 2012 edition…what are your 2012 house goals? Do tell!