We have MANY!

First is a gutting, rebuild and decorate the basement

New landscaping in front yard

Pool Installation

Painting front exterior house

Thats some of it!
Oh the joys of moving into an older home!

Oh and I am on a diet tomorrow like 50 million other ppl on January 1st. LOL

Happy New Year everyone!
Haley

Ever notice how most New Year's resolutions are about doing something difficult, unpleasant or that one "should" do? My birthday is 1 January, so I don't think resolutions add much joy to the day. As close as I ever come to a resolution is to choose an artist, musician, architect or writer who interests me and learn more about them and their work during to next year.

Organize!!!
I also would like to get our DIY renovations finished, kitchen is almost there. Need to finish our daughters' bedroom and organize it since our spare bedroom is currently their play room and will become a nursery in the summer.
Haley- my resolution last New Year's was to lose weight and go to the gym... to my surprise I stuck with it and lost 26 lbs. over the year, hoping not to gain too much this year.

Oh My! Do I have a list!

I want new kitchen counters can't afford granite but am looking at some cheaper alternatives. Just looked at Wilson Art for the 1st time today.

Kitchen
New Window Treatments
Paint Walls
Add a Pantry
Add an island

LR
Hardwood Floors (picked up samples today)
Paint interior trim work (haven't done since moved in)

MBR
Paint walls
Paint Trim

Spare Room
Paint Walls
Paint Trim
New Bedding
Add Storage

Basement
Add outside entrance
Organize
Declutter

Outside
Complete Landscaping Front
Complete Patio/Deck work out back

Garage
Paint cabinetry
Declutter

All I can think of right now but I am looking forward to getting there!

Alicia

We have a 900 square foot separate little house further down the driveway which is a large open space with a bathroom. My husband wants to make this into a painting studio/entertainment room with a large TV. Right now it's filled with things we didn't need in the main house when we combined our two households. It needs to be emptied out and made into a usable and livable space.

I'm just gonna change the term resolution to "goal".

My goal is to complete 1 "need" in my home which is a new water heater.

My 2nd goal is to complete 1 "want" which is to replace my front door and change out the exterior entry fixtures.

The door is less than a year old (new door by previous owners). It's a white steel-entry door, it matches, and it works. That's the best I can say about it. I'm getting a cherry wood door, different house numbers, and a new light fixture.

After the door/entry are done...I can feel the new vibe and start planning new landscaping!!!!

Landscaping will likely be 2010 and what I'm most excited for.

I want to make a new table top for my kitchen table.
I want to replace my Dining Room rug and re-upholster my dining room chairs.
I plan on using the dining room rug in
our bedroom, which means painting our bedroom and making new drapes and coordinating bedding.
Joann

Must-dos: Repair and repaint the front porch (lots of rot), improve the insulation in cellar and attic, and get something up on the last few windows even if it's not permanent. Oh, and patch the upstairs hallway ceiling where DH slipped off a joist in the attic and put his foot through the ceiling. :-)

Would-be-nices: Start stripping the horrible interior trim, redo PO's appalling taping/mudding job in kitchen, mudroom, and bathroom, restore front door.

1. Get better, finish chemo and have reverse surgery
2. Find a new place to live.
3. Find a new job.
4. Keep close to God and friends and family.

Sort out the kitchen (replace counters, install backsplash, replace flooring, get new microwave, paint, and whatever else is needed).

Paint living room and dining room.

Reorganize guest room/office, currently a horrible jumble (dejunk, get a new desk, replace light fixture/ceiling fan, paint, figure out how to hide the litter box).

Reclaim basement rec room, right now the repository of unwanted stuff (dejunk, paint, get a couch and lamps).

Basement bathroom: replace stained old sink and permanently leaking faucet with new ones that work, paint shower floor with the correct type of paint (rather than the white acrylic all-purpose stuff the POs used that started flaking off as soon as it got wet).

Install plantings on the hill in our front yard so we don't have mow it.

Hmmm. That looks like enough stuff for the next five years at least. And that's just the house. At least having specific goals is a start.

Winter: Finish all the interior projects we started last year. IF that is accomplished then I have 3 bedrooms that need to have the wallpaper removed, walls textured and painted.

Spring: I have more landscaping projects than I can list. Getting in some privacy plants along the fence is the first thing to do.

Summer: We repainted the exterior of our house this past summer but ran out of good weather for the trim so that is the priority.

Fall: More landscaping

All year: Organize and maintain, maintain, maintain. Constantly remind myself not to start any NEW projects until the former list is completed - and hope that the house itself won't freak out mechanically in some way that will send us spinning in an unforseen direction.

I prefer to call them "guidelines".
As always finish projects. I often underestimate time and energy it takes to complete a project and at times undertake too many.
Finish stripping the hutch and painting it so it can go in the kitchen for a yay or nay vote.(ever wonder what happens when you put stripper allll over something then dont get back to it? Not good.
Make curtain for new kitchen window- need to figure out how to adjust the pattern its too big
paint end table I got this fall. I am thinking of cream with sage -ish green vertical stripes on the front.
finish reupholstering kitchen chairs( are in DHs boat in garage- not good)
Sew some pillows,
sew some valances ala 3dogs for my mbr.
get gene therapy to obtain the organization gene.
declutter. keep clutter free when done. (HAH)
If my "rheumatiz" arthritis allows ( read I am determined to do it anyway no more wuss.)I will work in the gardens this year, couldn't do it at all last year.
I will enjoy the journey and not stress over what is done or not done.