New House – DIY List

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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:

housewithfrontporch

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
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