So, what's on your "TO-DO" list right now in your home?

Reading the post about people telling you to wait to do things to your house got me thinking about all the things on our list. So what's on yours?

For us (in order of how we're doing it):

-Demo and redo our full bathroom
-Take down wallpaper and paint.
-Pull up all the carpet in the house.
-Take out two cabinets in the kitchen and get a new countertop.
-Re-floor the entire first floor of the house.
-Re-do our half bath.
-Buy furniture for the livingroom and diningroom.


All this in a few months. The only thing that we NEED to have done is the bathroom because right now the shower doesn't work at all because the old lady only took baths.
Other than that, we could move in and live in retro 50s heaven while we work on everything else.
We already purchased our flooring, so that's done, at least.

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I feel like it's too much...but such is the life of a homeowner. The lists are never ending...and in my case, sometimes you go back and re-do things out of boredom or insanity. Take your pick.

- break down the guest room and turn it into the nursery; add crown moulding; get the dresser stripped & stained

- electrical work, insulation, sheetrock, paint and carpet the half of the basement that has already been framed

- finish painting the trim in the LR; seal the hearth; stain the trim around the hearth; shop for coffee table; artwork for the walls

- re-paint the bathroom; add crown moulding

- plan the garden; prepare the soil & grass; turn over the compost bin

Message edited 4/4/2008 12:04:32 PM.

Re: So, what's on your "TO-DO" list right now in your home?

Wow, you have a lot of work on your hands!!

This is what we need done in our house and I'm cracking they whip.

*Paint the "mudroom" area...or at least finish painting it.
*Remove wallpaper in the basement and paint.
*Rip down ceiling in basement and install a drop ceiling.
*Get new carpeting in the basement.
*Order a few yards of soil to fill in the area where the pool used to be and fix the pitch of our property.
*Work on the outdoor landscaping.


The basement has to be finished by October (when baby#2 is here). I have to give deadlines or dh will move like a turtle.

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pavers for stoop and patio
new front door
paint a few rooms
new vanity and fixtures in master bath
silestone counter in kitchen
new carpet and fix closet doors in the master bedroom


that's the short list!

Message edited 4/4/2008 12:03:53 PM.

Re: So, what's on your "TO-DO" list right now in your home?

There's not much that needs to be done. Our goals for the spring/summer:

1. New storm door for front door
2. New steel door for basement/kitchen entrance
3. Plant garden
4. Regrade backyard

Hopefully nothing goes wrong and we won't have to have bug killers come to our house again, like we did last summer for all the bees.

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Pavers for the walkway and stoop and driveway
New Windows
Have Trees Cut down
Runner for the stairs
New headboard/bed for the master
(I hate ours now)

We gutted and did a lot of the major work before we moved in

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Take down old wallpaper
Paint
Buy a new couch
Buy a new TV
Buy new entertainment center
Change outside from siding to stucco
Bleach wood floors
Change tiles in the bathroom,kitchen and front foyer
Plant flowers and trees outside
New doors
New outside door

Message edited 4/4/2008 12:14:48 PM.

Re: So, what's on your "TO-DO" list right now in your home?

We have so much we want to do, and only the money to do so little. We are using our tax return for a few things, and the other will come as we have the money to pay cash.....

Tape and spackle the lower level (DH finally! got all the insulation and sheetrock up)

Replace lower level widows (we buy Pella ones at Lowe's and hire a GC to put them in)

Put in Pergo flooring on lower level

Paint lower level

Hire someone to replace entry stairs and put in new railings and bannister...

replace toilet bowl in guest bath. Reglaze pepto pink tub and get new sink too.

Repair cracks in ceiling in living room and hallway

Spackle and paint ceiling in kitchen (we installed new lighting)

oh, there's more, but it'll be a long time coming and our goal is to get it in good enough shape to sell. Eventually.

Message edited 4/4/2008 12:23:34 PM.

Re: So, what's on your "TO-DO" list right now in your home?

-Paint den, kitchen, LR & DR.
-Have carpet installed in master BR and den
-Buy new oven
-Buy couch and entertainment center for den
-Replace toilet bowl in full bath
-Have tub reglazed in full bath
-Paint full bath


...I could go on and on and on...we bought a house that needs a lot of updating. Everything is on my "to-do" list!

Re: So, what's on your "TO-DO" list right now in your home?

-- demo and replace kitchen countertop (this weekend!)
-- repaint kitchen
-- strip and re-stain kitchen table
-- repaint bathroom
-- repaint basement where gas co. destroyed walls
-- finish framing out new window in basement
-- repaint window sills
-- strip and stain front door

Posted by chmlengr
.... our goal is to get it in good enough shape to sell. Eventually.

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-Fix the leaking shower in our master bathroom...
-Paint entryway & kitchen
-Get inground sprinklers installed
-Spring cleanup outside
-Lay some new grass seed
-Buy a swing for the backyard....

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-next week we are getting our driveway extended and repaved

- need to work on outside clean-up and landscaping

- need to organize DS's toys and old clothes and figure our where to put them

- clean out our basement and shed

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everything

well we just did the kitchen
and thehalf of the bathroom
we did all the flooring,
the windows the side of the front.
all the painting
new sheetrock on a few rooms
new furniture in the lv
washer and dryer

WE have to do
the basement- finish and add a bathroom
- the fence
-the driveway
- a dec out back with rear enerance off the bedroom
- moulding in all the rooms
-attic stairs
-kitchen backsplash

i could go on but its making me depressed.
the only thing is that in the one year we have owned the place it looks completely different

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We have a long term plan for our house, some will happen, others are more in the "maybe someday" category

finish taking down plaster/lathe in the movie room, reinsulate and put up sheetrock

remodel kitchen(demolish downstaris bath and incorporate into kitchen)

turn office into laundry/bath
build office in basement

reconfigure the upstairs to make the b'rooms larger (possibly rebuild/eclosed the two porches to make more interior space)

build garage behind the house (possibly with an addition on the house)

replace gardens with a tiered gardens

Maybe someday:
add a peaked roof

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We have so much to do. We're waiting for the roofer to fix our roof before we do anything. DH went there the other night and took out (not kidding) about 100 nails in the wall. He spackled all the holes so that the walls can be primed.

Once the roof is done, floors need to be finished. Then we can paint.

All of our projects are on hold until after the baby comes.

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We are siding the house this year

New front door

paint all rooms in the house (except two downstairs bath, master bedroom and basement)

pull up carpet in living room and put in hardwood floor, reface the fireplace and furnish the living room

set up small 4th bedroom as an office.


BTW: We've been in our house 2 1/2 years!

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finish insullation in the attic
sheetrock the attic
move our master BR up to the attic once all the renovations are done
Yard work...lots of yard work
New windows in the LR
Install ceiling fan in the enclosed porch
Scrub deck
Clean lawn furniture

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too much!

redo upstairs bathroom ( just finished redoing downstairs one)

redo kitchen counter and floors
( cabinets are actually in good shape)

new kitchen appliances

new light fixtures for our entry way, living room and bedrooms

redo bar area downstairs

NORMAL walls in our living room! right now its this EXTREMELY ugly fake wood paneling with like a grayish/silver color we actually bought ILs house from them, so DH grew up with the paneling and actually thinks its "unique" and doesnt' want to change it

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Put sod down in the back and grass seed down in the front yard (tomorrow if the weather holds out)
Fix the roof in the Florida room so it doesn't leak anymore
Pull up the rug in the Florida room and put tile down (same ones we used in the front of the house)
Paint the Florida room, put up curtains, and buy a dining room set
Install new cabinet doors in the kitchen
Have the bathroom redone

Hope to have the basement finished with a half-bath somewhere in there.
Eventually we'll be having a baby so we'll have to paint the office and make it into a nursery.
We'd like to get a bigger pool at some point too.

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In our mud room:
speckle
paint
new heater
flooring
new closet doors

Living room:
speckle
paint
molding

Kitchen:
speckle
paint
install dishwasher and over the range microwave

Bedroom:
install pocket door
repaint
molding

Bathroom:
rip up and install new floor boards
re-tile the floor

Outside:
new driveway
finish siding
spring clean up
paint shed
paint deck

and we need to get this done A.S.A.P because we're putting out house on the market

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burn it down and start over

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we are taking out 2 trees that are in the way of the patio

Having a patio put in

Having a stoop refaced on the side of the house

having a stoop created to the dining room

having french sliders put in in the diningroom to the stoop

getting patio set

getting swing seat for patio

We dropped some so we are chiiling for a lil bit with home stuff

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We are going to re-do our deck this spring. Everything inside is done!

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I want to re-do our bathtroom.
Repaint the living room
Replace the windows. This is NEEDED, everything else can wait.

And long term...we want to do an addition to the top. But who knows if and when that will happen.

Re: So, what's on your "TO-DO" list right now in your home?

Driveway
Backyard Patio
Paint Master Bedroom
Hot Tub