Front Porch:
- Install new front porch lights that I got for Christmas
- Paint front door red
- Paint porch swing (and possibly wooden rockers from my parents' house) black.
- Plant Caladiums in the beds under the big trees
Foyer/Stairs:
- Browbeat David-the-Contractor into finishing the stair railing (it still wobbles). Updated: I have been calling him about every other day. He swears that he isn't avoiding me/my calls, but my railing still wobbles.
- Hang family portraits on stair wall.
- Get mirror for empty frame above entry table.
- Paint hideous brass chandy black and top with adorable mini-shades that were in my formal dining room in my last house to replace the much-too-small fixture in the entry.
- Repair giant wicker flamingo that Holly mauled.
- Raise curtain rod and lengthen curtains with interesting (not yet selected) fabric.
- Remove hideous wallpaper.
- Remove chair rail and upside-down crown molding.
- Paint beige-on-beige harlequins on kitchen walls.
- Build banquette.
- Raise and re-cover Craig's-list wingback chairs to use as host chairs.
- Make baffle for drum shade over dining room table.
- Make cafe curtains to hide my shame from the neighbors but still let in enough light to work.
- Install more shelving/open storage for the less-used items from the kitchen
- Possibly paint, but I have no idea what color.
- Install crown molding
- Touch up paint (in the right light some areas are quite patchy).
- Paint yellow pine corner cabinet white
- Wallpaper (okay, Contact Paper) the back of her shelves with SO cute green pattern
- Sew pillow shams and second dust ruffle
- Finish rope detail around his ceiling
- Put together his big-boy bed.
- Buy/make big-boy bedding.
- Paint sand and sky colors (like I had in the old house). Possibly with chair rail, but probably just paint treatment with palm trees.
- Select/install non-hideous towel bars.
- Make frames to hang over the builder-grade giant mirror
- Spray paint the TP holder to match other finishes in the bathroom.
- Paint walls palest aqua.
- Convert daybed to 'couch' (a small construction project) and upholster with fabulous cocoa-polka-dotted fabric.
- Build custom desk that runs the length of the room with space for both my sewing machine and computer, with plenty of storage for sewing and crafting supplies.
- Make a window treatment.
- Add accessories that haven't make it out of storage.
- Find some art.
- Circle border treatment like I saw at House*Tweaking, but with more colors.
- Hang art.
- Get kids' computer stations set up and running.
- Find a home for all of the stuff in boxes from my parents' house. Updated: Making good progress, but there is still a looooong way to go.
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