Effectively, y’all. The studio toilet is just about completed. I nonetheless want to hold the art work, take care of ending out the awkward electrical outlet, and do just a few paint touchups. It’s all the time these previous couple of nagging element tasks that get me slowed down. I’ll attempt to get the images taken immediately, however I received’t make any guarantees. It is perhaps Wednesday earlier than I can present you the ultimate toilet.
Till then, let’s discuss in regards to the again of our home and our again patio. I don’t present this space of our home a lot (if ever) as a result of, fairly frankly, it’s ugly. Y’all know I’ve wished to tear down the sunroom and construct an addition again right here for the final ten years. However right here we’re, in 2026, and we nonetheless have the sunroom.
Once we had the brand new siding put in and painted, I had them cease on the sunroom as a result of I didn’t wish to waste cash on a room that I believed can be passed by now. So not solely is it ugly, however it additionally stands proud like a sore thumb as a result of it’s a totally completely different colour.
However now that we’ll be retaining the sunroom for some time longer, I’m pondering it is perhaps time to go forward and paint it. I nonetheless don’t wish to put new siding on it. That can really feel like a whole defeat to me, and I’m not prepared to surrender on my dream of an addition and provides into defeat simply but. However a few gallons of paint? I can try this. And since I’m about to show my consideration to some out of doors tasks for some time, this is perhaps the proper time to do this.
I’m additionally excited about lastly eliminating this awkward hearth planter combo. We’ve by no means used the fireside, and I wouldn’t even really feel secure utilizing it with that tree so near it. And the planters are falling aside and act as a weed manufacturing unit proper now. I’ve wished to eliminate them for therefore lengthy now, however I all the time thought I’d delay any tasks again right here till we get the addition constructed. However I’m uninterested in ready.
I feel with a coat of paint on the sunroom and people planters and fireside eliminated, the again of our home might look…first rate. It received’t look nice so long as that sunroom is there, however first rate is best than what it’s now.
And eradicating that planter and fireside would go a good distance in direction of opening up that space visually and making the entire again yard appear and feel extra usable.
Proper now, we don’t even use our again patio in any respect. For the reason that sunroom has been used as a storage room for therefore lengthy, we principally keep away from it altogether, which implies that the patio isn’t simply accessible. So I take advantage of the patio for tasks (I’ve painted many a cupboard door on the market through the years), and that’s the place I collect all of my previous partially empty paint cans that may’t be thrown away within the common trash and need to be taken in for recycling.
However now that the plan is to really use the sunroom as a house health club (which can hopefully be momentary, however I do not know how lengthy that can be), that implies that this patio can be extra accessible to us. So I’m including this stuff to my listing of the out of doors tasks that I’d prefer to deal with. I don’t assume it’ll ever look nice so long as that sunroom continues to be there, however I can think about the world with the siding painted to match the remainder of the home, the planters and fireside gone, and the patio arrange with a cute out of doors seating space that we are able to really get pleasure from.
I feel the time has come to cease pushing aside utilizing our again yard till after we’ve constructed the addition. That has been my mindset all this time, however I actually wish to get our complete home, together with the again yard, to the place we are able to really use and luxuriate in it with out placing it off for a dream that appears to get extra out of attain with every passing day. I don’t wish to hold all of our hopes on one thing that will not occur for an additional few years…or could not occur in any respect. I wish to end our home, as it’s now, and really dwell in it.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify 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 possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
