Let me share with you the ideas that I’ve been wrestling with over the past three or 4 weeks. I actually don’t have some extent in sharing this besides that I wish to be open with y’all about this DIY life I’ve chosen for myself. I’m not essentially on the lookout for enter on what to do. I’m the one one that can determine this out for myself. However I do marvel if different individuals like me — individuals who have taken on DIY whole-house transforming — have these similar inside dialogues stepping into on their heads alongside the way in which.
First, I’m winding down my present toilet makeover, and I’ve determined to carry off on exhibiting any extra of it till it’s completed. It’s such a tiny room, and the “to do” objects on my listing are so uninteresting on their very own, that there’s actually no want to point out you day by day updates on that venture.
However I’ve been pondering so much about my subsequent steps. What I had deliberate is to leap proper into the subsequent huge venture, which is to show the hallway toilet right into a storage room. That’s the lavatory behind these double doorways in our bed room suite lobby.
I nonetheless might do this as a result of we actually do want that storage room, and I’d wish to have it ahead of later. However right here’s the deal. I really feel like I would like a break from huge tasks. I’d love nothing greater than to take a LONG break from huge home tasks.
It will get fairly exhausting doing all of those tasks (largely) on my own. I’ve been at this for a very long time now, and the previous few tasks over the past 12 months have been fairly huge. Final evening, I went again and appeared on the footage of how these areas appeared in the beginning of 2025. It was such a giant venture, and whereas I didn’t do 100% of it alone, I’d say I did about 90-95% of it on my own.








After which I jumped instantly into this present toilet venture, and whereas it isn’t practically as concerned because the bed room, it has taken me so much longer to do than I had anticipated due to the problem with the wallpaper resulting in my determination to deal with a fairly labor-intensive wall design.


Anyway, don’t learn this as me complaining, as a result of I really love what I do. Once more, that is simply me sharing this working dialogue that has been taking place in my head over the past three or 4 weeks. I’d love nothing greater than to complete up this toilet after which take an extended break from the large tasks. I’d like to have an excellent chunk of time the place I can simply play, and I can achieve this with out the strain of “I have to get this venture completed.”
I’ve a giant studio stuffed with artwork provides, and a head stuffed with concepts of enjoyable, artful, artsy issues I need to attempt only for the enjoyable of doing them. They’re not even essentially for my home. I simply need to make them as a result of I really like creating and I feel they’d be enjoyable to make. I haven’t taken time to make enjoyable, artful, artsy tasks only for the enjoyable of it in a really very long time. I miss that.
I even have a drawer crammed to the brim with beads for necklaces and earrings that I need to make. They’ve been in that drawer for over a 12 months now, and I haven’t had time to do something with them. And I’d love to search out different enjoyable tasks to do with beads apart from jewellery as effectively. I’ve some concepts that I’d like to attempt only for the enjoyable of doing them.
After which there are the smaller tasks that I need to get completed round the home. Do not forget that mural I purchased some time again and couldn’t determine the place I wished to place it?


I’ve determined that I’m going to place it on the entryway wall. That’s my last reply. As a lot as I really like the entryway as it’s proper now, I’m prepared for a change.


However right here’s the catch. As a lot as I’d like to cease pushing myself to do home tasks, and simply take an excellent, lengthy break to do nothing however enjoyable, artful, artsy tasks and small tasks round the home, I discover that I don’t have an excellent stopping level. And that is the place that inside dialogue and that inside battle is available in.
As quickly as I persuade myself that I can cease after this present toilet venture and take an extended break to do enjoyable issues, I discover myself pondering, “However you actually need that space for storing! Simply get that completed first! ” And that’s true. We actually do want that space for storing ahead of later.
And once I persuade myself that I simply have to energy by and get the storage room completed after which I can take an extended break to do enjoyable, artful issues, I feel to myself, “However wouldn’t it’s higher in case you end your workshop first in order that your instruments might be organized and out there for a few of these tasks?” And, after all, the reply is sure. It will be a lot simpler to have my instruments within the workshop quite than dragging them into the carport once I need to construct one thing. And plenty of these artful tasks that I need to do are small buidling tasks, so that they’ll require my instruments.
And once I persuade myself to simply get the storage room and the workshop completed first, after which I can take an extended break to do artsy issues, I feel to myself, “However don’t you need the exercise tools out of your studio?” And the reply to that could be a resounding YES! I would like Matt’s Theracycle, my treadmill, and my rebounder out of my studio so badly. They take up a lot house and make my large studio really feel so cramped. So I actually need to get them moved to the sunroom as quickly as attainable.
In order that’s the storage room, workshop, and the sunroom that must be completed, after which I can take a while to do my enjoyable, artful, artsy tasks, proper? However then I feel to myself, “Why would you cease there? In any case of that’s completed, that simply leaves the breakfast room, and then you definately’ll have the entire inside your property trying full. Don’t you need to do this first?” And the reply, after all, is sure. I’d like to get to a stopping level, with the entire inside areas of our dwelling in a state of completion, earlier than I take an extended break simply to do enjoyable stuff that has nothing to do with getting a room completed.
So I’ve form of gotten myself right into a little bit of a quagmire right here, and I’m not likely positive the way to get out of it. All of this stuff have to get completed, and I’d love for all of them to get completed ASAP. I do know I’d most likely really feel extra enthusiasm to leap in and deal with them if Matt have been in a position to assist me. I’ve at all times envied these DIYing {couples} on the market who work on their houses collectively. And, after all, if he have been in a position to assist me, the tasks would go so much sooner as effectively. However, sadly, that’s not our state of affairs, and I’m working on my own just about each single day.
I’m not going to rent out the tasks, both, as a result of that’s not what I do. I’m too low cost for that, and I’m a DIYer by and thru. So for probably the most half, they have to be completed by me. However on the similar time, I’d love to complete the studio toilet after which take two months to simply play and create enjoyable, artsy issues that don’t essentially serve a goal, and that aren’t a method to an finish (like ending a room).
So I find yourself telling myself that I simply have to push by this 12 months, get all of this stuff completed, after which subsequent 12 months I can take an excellent chunk of time to do the enjoyable, artsy issues. If I can final that lengthy. 😀 All I do know is that at this very second, the considered ending up the studio toilet after which leaping proper into tearing out the opposite toilet exhausts me. I suppose we’ll see how I really feel about it subsequent week once I get up and that’s the subsequent factor on my listing to do. We’ll see which facet of my mind wins this battle — the pragmatic facet or the artsy, artful facet. If I needed to make that selection right this moment, I do know which facet would win.















