Home Improvements for 2006:
1 - Paint Kitchen (No more Princess Purple)
2 - Paint Bedroom
3 - Custom closets built in bedroom and bathroom
4 - Put up towel rack in bathroom
5 - Need a shed
6 - Clean up Florida Room, put lawnmower and yard tools in new shed
7 - Get the doorbell fixed
8 - Furnish my Florida Room
9 - New Front Door (anyone have an extra $800 laying around?)
10 - New Porch Light
11- Power wash the house
12 - Take down the god awful awnings and put up shutters
13 - Build Shelves in laundry room
14 - pait laundry room shelves
15 - Buy a spare bed for the second bedroom, which is currently empty
16 - Organize laundry room
17 - Vacuum and clean out basement
18 - Hydroseed
19 - Plant Flower Beds
20 - Mulch
21 - Remove Tree from backyard
22 - Haul old basketball hoop to dump
23 - Clean gutters
24 - install gutter helmets
25 - New shower door
Now the funny thing about this list is half this stuff isn't getting done, but I can dream can't I? Why do you ask is most of this not getting completed? Well you need to have a bank account much larger than mine to complete most of these tasks. But I will continue to watch and learn, and read about how to do these things yourself.
I broke down and cried the first weekend that I moved into my house. I was trying to put in a toilet paper holder and punched a whole in my bathroom wall. I patched the hole up, but I've never dared to put a hole in my drywall since.
If anyone has any advice on the above, please let me know!
1 - Paint Kitchen (No more Princess Purple)
2 - Paint Bedroom
3 - Custom closets built in bedroom and bathroom
4 - Put up towel rack in bathroom
5 - Need a shed
6 - Clean up Florida Room, put lawnmower and yard tools in new shed
7 - Get the doorbell fixed
8 - Furnish my Florida Room
9 - New Front Door (anyone have an extra $800 laying around?)
10 - New Porch Light
11- Power wash the house
12 - Take down the god awful awnings and put up shutters
13 - Build Shelves in laundry room
14 - pait laundry room shelves
15 - Buy a spare bed for the second bedroom, which is currently empty
16 - Organize laundry room
17 - Vacuum and clean out basement
18 - Hydroseed
19 - Plant Flower Beds
20 - Mulch
21 - Remove Tree from backyard
22 - Haul old basketball hoop to dump
23 - Clean gutters
24 - install gutter helmets
25 - New shower door
Now the funny thing about this list is half this stuff isn't getting done, but I can dream can't I? Why do you ask is most of this not getting completed? Well you need to have a bank account much larger than mine to complete most of these tasks. But I will continue to watch and learn, and read about how to do these things yourself.
I broke down and cried the first weekend that I moved into my house. I was trying to put in a toilet paper holder and punched a whole in my bathroom wall. I patched the hole up, but I've never dared to put a hole in my drywall since.
If anyone has any advice on the above, please let me know!
posted by Abe Froman at 4:47 PM
2 Comments:
Friends for most of these. Bargains and sales for grass and mulch - you don't have that much lawn.
Power wash - borrow a sprayer, but it will take the paint off if you are too close.
Painting - just suck it up and do it.
Most of it isn't money, just hard, pain in the ass amounts of work. Welcome to the thrilling world of homeownership.
I love my apartment!
The painting isn't the hard part. And I have the paint already. In fact I was planning on doing my painting this weekend, since it is a long weekend and all.
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