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Since moving to the new house, I’ve talked about “the list”. It’s a list of all the projects for the house. The top picture is where I started. The bottom is from last fall… The list continues.

I put “The List” is in year categories, because some of the projects are very large and expensive. Year 5 is planned to be a BIG year!

Where I would like to end up:

This is my current list:

• Repair Rotting soffits
• Repair Rotting staircase
• Clean front gutter
• Replace front siding
• Repair Rotting boards on the front porch
• Repair Rotting soffits
• Paint outside of the house
• Paint bedroom walls (1, 2, 3)
• Vinyl Plank bedrooms (1, 2, 3)
• Paint front stairwell
• Remove paint from stair rail and repaint
• Paint back stairwell
• Paint back stair
• Paint living room
• Paint dining room
• Repair dining room wall
• Put shelves in the playroom
• Paint Playroom
• Finish Playroom walls
• Shelving in closets (1, 2, 3)
• Remove wallpaper from the living room
• Replace trim in living room/dining room
• Drywall on ceilings both floors – Year 3
• Replace lighting figures in the dining room, front hallway, bedrooms (1, 2, 3)
• Refinish floors in Dining room, living room, front hall
• Extend front porch to span entire front of the house – Year 4
• Replace windows in front of the house – Year 3
• Add a bay window to the dining room – Year 5
• Build deck off the north side of house / install french doors – Year 5
• Build dormers on the north side/2nd floor of house / install windows (move closet/bedroom 1) – Year 5
• Take down the wall in 2nd-floor hall / build window seating – Year 5
• Replace roof – Year 8
• Install ductless heating system – Year 3
• Complete apartment over garage – Year 10?

The yard has a whole other plan.

• Raised beds along east side of yard
• retaining walls along side driveway
• build stairway folly in back yard
• create firepit with seating area
• cut down ugly ornamental trees
• build chicken coop
• build retaining wall along front yard
• build retaining wall garden in front
• fix concrete steps