The Two-Month Countdown – Addicted 2 Decorating®

However I’ve two months left, and my aim is to be laser targeted on two issues — ending the eating room and ending the storage room. Keep in mind the storage room? 😀 We haven’t talked about that shortly. I’ve been so targeted on the eating room that the storage room has sort of fallen off the radar. Right here’s the way it appears proper now…

And the aim is to make it look one thing like this, though the pink ceiling remains to be up for debate…

The room is small, so I’ve satisfied myself that I can certainly get it finished by the tip of the yr. However I are inclined to have a Tremendous Girl mindset that tells me I can do far more than what’s truly humanly doable, and I can get it finished in a means shorter time than actuality would enable. And small rooms will be deceiving. I fairly often trick myself into pondering that small rooms ought to take a lot much less time than massive rooms just because they’re small. However small rooms require all the identical consideration to element that enormous rooms do. Even after 30 years of DIYing, I’ve but to know that phenomenon.

The excellent news is that I’m fairly certain I’ve virtually every thing readily available that I want with a view to end that room as rapidly as doable. The IKEA cupboards have been sitting within the entryway ever since they had been delivered, nonetheless boxed up and leaning in opposition to the console desk. I’ve the sink, the flooring, the ceiling mild, and the wallpaper. The room is empty. It has new drywall, electrical, and plumbing. So it’s able to go as quickly as I’m. And I’ll be prepared to leap into that challenge simply as quickly as I end up the eating room.

If you happen to’ve been following alongside, you realize that the eating room is properly underway. The one challenge I’ve left in that room that I can do with out cloth is the art work that may go above the benches.

Each different challenge requires cloth, and I’m nonetheless ready for that to be delivered. It shipped yesterday, so I ought to have it both tomorrow or Monday. Then I can get the benches, eating chairs, and draperies completed.

So that is the aim for the remaining two months of 2026, and I’m going to do every thing in my energy to complete each earlier than we welcome the brand new yr. In my thoughts, it appears doable. We’ll see what actuality has to say about it. 😀 To satisfy my aim, that signifies that over the following two months (roughly eight weeks), I must:

Upholster 4 eating chairs,

Paint and upholster two benches,

Sew two lined material panels,

Make two items of colourful textured art work,

Prime and paint the storage room partitions,

Set up the hardwood flooring*,

Unbox and assemble the IKEA Pax wardrobes and set up them in place,

Grasp the wallpaper,

Trim out the room (crown, baseboards, chair rail, and wall trim)

Prime and paint all the trim,

Set up the sink,

Set up lighting,

End out {the electrical} retailers.

I feel that’s it, however I’m certain there can be different particulars alongside the best way that I can’t consider proper now. See what I imply? After I take a look at the small storage room, my thoughts tells me I might knock out that challenge in a few weeks. However the listing says in any other case, particularly when different components (i.e., requirement of on a regular basis life exterior of DIY initiatives) come into play. However I do love an excellent problem, so I’m going to do my perfect, and irrespective of how this yr ends, I’m going to be happy with what I completed.

However oh my goodness, how wonderful would it not be to complete out 2026 and begin the brand new yr with your complete inside of our home completed (with the apparent exception of the sunroom)?!

It could be the belief of a 13-year dream. That’s what retains me motivated. So let the countdown start!