House

Before

After (in progress)

 

House to do list:

• Clean top to bottom
• Paint Living and Dining room
• Curtains for Kitchen, Dining room and Office
• Rugs!
• Decorate to a livable level
• Replace broken/ugly kitchen hardware
• Paint Fireplace
• Paint front door
• Paint some baseboards
• De and Re-Caulk the bathtub
• Hang bamboo blinds in the living room
• Finish unpacking the random, leftover boxes
• Paint the upper half of the kitchen, the hallway, the closet doors and the rest of the baseboards
• The Nursery! (paint, window coverings, light fixture, furniture, decor)
• Fix the two, ugly, scratched up kitchen drawers (possibly cover with fabric or wallpaper)
• Organize the laundry room
• Organize and decorate the office a bit
• Hang more artwork on the walls
• Work on the backyard, salvage the yard-waste-stuffed compost, garden, get some patio furniture for spring, clean up the shed a bit
• Trim some branches on the many trees and shrubs in the front yard
• Paint exterior (property management company to do it they said in a few weeks, but something tells me we will be waiting until spring)

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