Don't judge me!!
I just can't help it. So much goes on in this big ol' brain of mine, if I don't write it down, I'll forget it! So anyways...a current ever growing list of mine is my Summer "To Do" List. Seems appropriate as a teacher that I should at least be accomplished during the summer months when I'm home & finally have time to get stuff done!
Last summer my list was rather short, and I accomplished 4 out of 6 tasks, which I think is pretty decent. But this summer, my list is rather long and since we have a house now, pretty much a lot of this list coincides with the "things to do for the house" list!
But, alas, that list is far too long and many of the things on that list fall into a "will be completed in the future" list, haha. {aka - they require beaucoups of moo-la!) So house things on my summer list are definitely things I can accomplish this summer!
I've already gotten a good start on the list as well...
1 - Clean out my email. I tend to let emails from places like Groupon, Living Social, Spartan Race WODs, etc pile up in my account.
For example.... I may see a good deal in a Groupon email and think, "Well let me think about that and I'll come back to this email" OR "Ohhh that looks like a good workout, I should keep this email so I can do this workout one day." And then I never go back to the email. So then I have 5467 emails in my account....ok, not really. Just 900.
I plan to tackle this while I'm holed up traveling in the car with B next Monday & Tuesday!
2 - Work on a photo wall for our bedroom. We have a giant empty wall in our bedroom that I plan to fill with a desk and photo wall. I've already ordered a canvas of this print...
...purchased this mirror...
...and I have a few other prints on their way (that are kind of a surprise to B!) that I'll frame once they get here. It most likely won't be finished with these few things, it's a big wall, but it's definitely a good start!!
3 - Make a desk for our bedroom. I actually don't know if that will happen this summer...but I'm hoping!! I found this post off Pinterest and I'm completely inspired! It will go under the picture wall in our bedroom and be sort of my workspace since B already has his home office.
Our desk will be a bit different, though. We'll be using a glass table top from our old coffee table instead of wood and these cabinets instead of the ones pictured in their post.
4 - Spray paint all the door knobs & hardware in our house. Currently, all 24 of the doors in our house have gold/brass knobs & hardware.
It's fine, it's just not really our style. Our kitchen hardware is a bronze color & we really love the look of it so we planned to eventually change out every door's knob and hardware to a new bronze knob and hardware set, but after checking into the cost of that, it was going to be about $50 a door! $50 a door!!!! Times 24 doors...you do that math! Too much $$$
I saw Melissa, from The View From Five Two, tweet something about spray painting their door knobs in their house a few weeks ago and I knew we had to try it!! Worst case scenario, we'd be out about 7 bucks for the spray paint and we'd eventually replace the door knob and hardware of the door we tested and didn't end up liking.
So last weekend, we tested out a door from our guest bedroom...and it looked great!!! Such a rather cheap and relatively easy fix! And it completely changes the look of the doors, which I love :) I'll do a complete post about it once all the doors are finished, but this is currently what our laundry room looks like...
...and our garage...
Haha, kind of a mess, but hopefully by doing 2-4 doors a week/weekend, I'll have this completed by the time I head back to school.
I might be most excited about this task :)
5 - Get a chair for our family room. We purchased a sectional couch when we moved, but we really need a nice chair in the corner to complete this room....
I'm attempting to find/thrift a relatively affordable one and possibly recover it if needed. These kinds of chairs with fun, colorful, vibrant prints are my inspiration...
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6 - Organize our closet & create a jewelry wall. Ever since seeing Kate's {from Every Mile A Memory} posts about her custom closet & jewelry wall I've had a strong urge to get organized! I really just need to rearrange my clothes to the specific way I want them (should I organize by color or by article of clothing?? i.e. all tanks together, sleeveless shirts together, tees together, button ups, sweaters, etc - oh the possibilities!) and order the wall mounts for my jewelry!
7 - Change the title for my car to be solely in my name. This requires a trip to the DMV. Joy of all joys! When I pay my car off next month, I'll receive the title in the mail, which will read my name as well as my dad's since I needed a co-signer when I bought the car in college. But now, since apparently I'm all grown up, I'll be changing it :)
8 & 9 - Get a queen box spring, mattress & railings and make a headboard for the guest bed room. Sadly, I don't think I will actually accomplish tasks 8 & 9 this summer. :(
Brandon apparently thinks it's gross to buy a used mattress set (per say off of Craigslist) but I didn't think it would be that bad! Especially since it would be in our guest bed room & we wouldn't be sleeping on it, ha! Would you buy a used mattress?? Is it really that gross??
Since B vetoed that idea, we'll eventually be forking over some money for a new mattress set.
And I've seen so many of these types of headboards all over Pinterest & this is definitely what I want for our guest bedroom...
I even found a great tutorial here, but I think I'm just running out of time considering items 1 - 7 as well as two week long beach trips coming up!! But that's ok, I'll get to it one day :)
So there's my list! Long right!? Props to you if you even read it all ;)
I'm off to spray a second coat onto the knobs & hardware currently drying in my garage!
Happy Friday, y'all!!!
I think we'll need pictures and tutorials when you do some of those crafts!! Can't wait to see how they all turn out! :)
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