Focusing On The Important Issues

Y’all, I can’t consider that we’re already within the month of November. Not solely that, however Thanksgiving is that this week! This yr has completely flown by for me! And now that we’re at the moment of yr for extra gatherings, household time, and down time (I wish to take the final week of the yr to relaxation and prepare for the brand new yr), I’ve needed to face the truth that there’s no method I’ll be capable to end my studio by the tip of the yr.

That doesn’t imply that I’m going to cease engaged on it. I’m going to maintain plugging away and see simply how a lot I can get completed. However as one who usually units very unrealistic objectives and infrequently meets these objectives, even I can go searching my studio and know that setting a purpose of ending the studio by the tip of the yr is laughable. However I’ve checked out what’s left to do, and narrowed down 4 issues that I actually wish to deal with, and hopefully end, earlier than the tip of the yr.

The principle factor I’d wish to deal with in my studio is cleansing up and getting issues put away. For those who’ve been round right here for lengthy, you already know that I’m a really messy employee, and when a mission continues to be “in progress”, I’ve a really excessive tolerance for dysfunction. I’ve by no means been one to wash up on the finish of the day and begin with a clear work space the subsequent day. I usually simply wait till the mission is nearing completion earlier than cleansing up and organizing. I do know that drives some individuals completely batty to see my disorganized work areas, however I’ve been that method all my life, and there’s a couple of 0.5% probability that I’ll change my methods. 😀

However with that stated, there’s all the time been one thing a bit particular in regards to the starting of a brand new yr to me. It’s a contemporary begin, and a chance to begin with a clear slate. So I’d actually fairly not drag my present studio mess into the brand new yr. Beginning with a clear slate within the studio within the new yr goes to be a time-consuming activity of getting all of this mess cleaned up, organized, and put away. I took this image this morning…

And whereas this image was taken some time again (earlier than I acquired the paint swatch cupboard completed), my work tables look just about the identical proper now.

So my major purpose between now and the tip of the yr is cleansing, organizing, and placing issues away. The enjoyable half is that I’ll lastly begin organizing my issues within the cupboards. I’ve this complete financial institution of cupboards on the entrance wall of the studio that has been completed for a number of weeks now, and but many of the cupboards and drawers are nonetheless utterly empty.

And now I even have my massive paint swatch cupboard that’s utterly empty and simply ready to be stuffed up and arranged.

So lack of cupboard space isn’t a difficulty anymore. Now the one drawback is discovering the time and the motivation to truly undergo every thing and put issues away with out getting overwhelmed and strolling away after half-hour. As a result of I’ve tried specializing in organizing and placing issues away two instances earlier than, and that’s precisely what occurred. After about half-hour, I made a decision that I’d fairly deal with a enjoyable mission and go away the sorting and organizing for a later time once I’m in a greater mindset for it, but when I maintain permitting myself to try this, that point won’t ever come. There’ll by no means be a time once I’ll wish to select sorting, organizing and cleansing over a enjoyable constructing, portray, or residence enchancment mission.

After that, my second precedence earlier than the tip of the yr is to complete portray the partitions and ceiling within the studio. I’ve been portray sections of partitions and ceiling on an “as wanted” foundation relying on what mission I needed to work on. Earlier than I put in the cupboards on the mural wall, I painted simply sufficient of the partitions and ceiling for that mission. I did the identical factor on the workplace part of the studio earlier than I put in these cupboards. And once more, I did that earlier than constructing the paint swatch cupboard.

So proper now, the partitions and ceiling appear like a random patchwork of paint colours.

I postpone ending it due to my dread of getting to climb up and down the tall ladder to do the chopping in on the partitions across the ceiling, however now that I’ve my scaffolding, I’m not dreading it anymore. Now it’s only a matter of getting sufficient area to maneuver the scaffolding across the room, which is why the cleansing, organizing, and placing issues away wants to return first.

My third purpose earlier than the tip of the yr is to complete the doorways within the again entry. I’ve been wrestling with a choice concerning what to do with these doorways, and on the finish of final week, I lastly determined that I would like the 2 aspect doorways to be wooden, and the outside French doorways to be painted white. This was my imaginative and prescient.

However now I really feel like I’ve exhausted my choices for actual walnut doorways. Buying doorways which might be already walnut is out of the query. They’re method too costly, and there’s no method I can justify that value for my studio. I may perhaps see splurging on one thing particular like that for our new addition (though I’ve no want or need for walnut doorways in any of these areas), however not for a room that’s just about simply all mine. I can follow cheap DIY variations of issues for my very own use.

And that just about guidelines out walnut veneer as effectively. Not solely is walnut veneer costly, however the concept of getting to take away two pocket doorways which might be already instaled and trimmed out simply looks like busy work to me.

So in the long run, I made a decision to strive the Retique It Liquid Wooden primer (affiliate hyperlink) for the 2 aspect doorways — the lavatory door and the storage closet door. It’ll be a enjoyable DIY mission utilizing a new-to-me product, and it’ll be a problem to see if I can get it to appear like actual wooden. And I like challenges!

And my remaining purpose for the tip of the yr is to get the partitions within the studio toilet repaired, primed, and wallpapered, after which set up the trim to complete up the wainscoting. I’ve already eliminated all the yellow tile, the chair rail, and a part of the mirror trim, and that left some broken areas on the wall that can now must be skim coated with drywall mud and sanded easy earlier than I can prime the partitions and put up the brand new wallpaper.

As soon as I get that completed, there gained’t be a lot left to complete within the toilet aside from some ornamental issues like putting in a brand new window shade, determining what to hold over the bathroom (cabinets once more, or perhaps some art work?), discovering a brand new mirror, and so on. But when I’ve to attend till the start of the yr to complete these issues, I’ll be positive with that simply so long as I can get the wallpaper up and end the wall trim earlier than my end-of-year break.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may be taught extra about me right here.