Wish List

On this gray, chilly, winter day, when Nick and I are exhausted from hosting company yesterday and I am trying to keep the gloom of the outside from coloring my mood, I thought it might help to put together a list of the upcoming projects I would like to tackle in the coming months.

On the one hand, this is a little depressing because all of these projects will cost money, and between the new puppy and the holidays, I don't have any.  On the other hand, it's something to look forward to....eventually.

So in no particular order, here we go:

• Repaint the guest room.  You remember, the bubblegum pink room?
  
  
  
  Yeah.  That's gotta go. That's getting repainted Hollingsworth Green.

 

• Obtain an actual guest bed for said guest room.  All we have to offer our guests now is a queen inflatable airbed, and I am getting the distinct impression that if we don't replace it ASAP people are going to start declining our invitations to visit.  Nick's parents have a four-poster full wooden bed frame they're not using that they have kindly offered to us; now we have to get the mattress.

• Paint furniture for the guest room.  My lovely mother-in-law invited me to peruse her attic for unused furniture, and there was a wooden chest of drawers and little side table that will be as good as new with a fresh coat of paint.  I think I will be experimenting with Annie Sloan chalk paint for those, since there's a store in Old Town Warrenton that carries it.

• Repaint our bedroom Yarmouth Blue.

• Turn the cheesy "pantry" and "laundry" decal door insets in the kitchen into useful chalkboard door insets. 
  
  
  I'm planning to have a calendar and to-do list on one door, and a menu planner and shopping list on the other.  We'll see.  Still exploring the various options of chalkboard paint versus contact paper versus whatever-else-is-out there.  Am also hoping it won't make the room too dark, but I think we can avoid that.  Besides, I can always paper over the glass inserts with black construction paper first to get a feel for what it would look like.

 

• There are some other projects we'd like to tackle, like painting the bathrooms (stark white is not my style).  Additionally, Nick found a website that shows you how to build a beautiful farmhouse dining table, and if he can score a Kreg Jig for Christmas, I think he might do that.  Or he's going to build us an entertainment center.  I forget which one is going to be first.  And then...built-in bookshelves in the front room!