For the last couple of years, I’ve had people repeatedly ask me, “What are you going to do when you finish your house? What will happen to the blog?” I haven’t really given it much thought because our house is far from finished. Well, it’s far from finished if I count the sunroom remodel that we want to do, expanding that room a bit and turning it into a TV room, guest bedroom, and guest bathroom.
But if I don’t count that room, the main part of our house actually is almost finished. I’m down to the last two rooms — the dining room and the storage room.
It’s hard to believe that after all of these years, those are the only two (relatively small) spaces left, and I’m doing everything I can to get them done by the end of the year.
So I have been giving a lot of thought to what next year will look like. I’ll be quite honest with you. I don’t feel comfortable at all jumping into the sunroom remodel. The economy (not just in the U.S., but the entire world) seems like it’s dangling on a cliff’s edge, so spending $80,000 on a remodel seems imprudent right now, to say the least. I’m going to need to see some rebound and some stability before I feel comfortable spending that kind of money building rooms that aren’t a necessity for us right now.
There are some big projects I want to get done, though. My workshop is the obvious one. We had that built two years ago, and it still sits there empty and without electricity. I’ve been using it as a glorified storage room since it was built, and I need to get it finished. It’s cute on the outside, but still in its original condition on the inside.
And I also want to spend a lot of time outside next year working on exterior projects. The first priority will be getting the steps built for our bedroom door.
And, of course, I want to do some landscaping as well. But those projects will have to wait until the spring and summer.
And one final big project I want to do is refinish the floors in the living room, music room, dining room, and pantry. I want all of our floors to match the light color of our bedroom suite.
But do you know what I really want to do? I want to spend a lot of time in my studio creating. Playing. Experimenting. And just having fun. I want to try out ideas that I’ve been collecting for years now. I want to do projects that have no purpose — projects that aren’t a means to an end, like finishing a particular room in our home. I just want to relax and go where my creativity takes me.
I’ve been saving creative ideas for years now. I have folders everywhere jam packed with things I want to try — sewing projects, building projects, craft projects, art projects. I have a folder on Instagram jam packed with ideas. I have a folder on Facebook. My phone is filled with photos of ideas that I’ve saved. I have a folder on my laptop filled with ideas.
I just want to have fun. No deadlines. No end goal hanging over my head. No stress of having to quickly finish an art project so that I can get a room finished. I just want the freedom of creating for the purpose of creating.
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Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.
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