Welcome to the fifth edition of the screaming pages Thursday Thirteen.
I love my house. Since we moved in we’ve made very few changes. We re-painted the office from black to sage. This was previous owner’s son’s room and when we moved in we set it up as a home office and library for me. I didn’t really mind the black walls since so much of it is covered in shelving and bookcases, but the hubby didn’t like it and painted it when I was away on a business trip. Otherwise the house has been decorated very much to our tastes. However, there are a few things I would like to change in the next few years as the funds become available.
This week’s Thursday Thirteen is all about the renovations – big and small – I have in mind for the house and yard.
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Thirteen Things about SHE. Renovation Ideas.
- Basement bathroom – I’d like to shift the toilet in the basement bathroom 90 degrees. The basement bathroom is small and the toilet currently faces the wall. It’s pretty cramped. I’d like to shift the location of the toilet to give anyone answering nature’s call a bit more room. While we’re at it, I want to replace the current bathroom door with a built in pocket door.
- New closet – In the basement we have a greatroom. There’s a large closet that we store the hubby’s military kit in. Since the house is small, storage space is at a premium. I’d like to expand the current closet or build a new closet beside it to store linens, Christmas decorations, etc. On the outside of the new closet wall the hubby wants to build a built-in bookcase to store cookbooks and knicknacks.
- Shoe storage – We currently have a small alcove built into the wall at the backdoor to place shoes. Unfortunately, it’s open space and we can’t use it for shoes because we have a shoe eating dog. I’d like to find a way to put a door on the alcove so that we can start using it to put our shoes when we come into the house.
- Built-in bar – There’s more than enough room in the basement to fit a small built-in bar. I’d like it to be built close to the beer/pop fridge for convenience.
- Kitchen banquettes – Our kitchen is a decent size but storage space is at a premium. We have a nice little alcove to put the kitchen table and chairs in. Unfortunately our chairs are starting to wobble and could use replacing. In order to gain more storage space and deal with the chair issue, I would like to build at least one two seater banquette in the alcove. This will keep our seating space and provide us a place to store appliances that we use on occassion. Currently they’re stored on top of the counters because we don’t have anywhere else to put them.
- Roof – The roof is going to need to be re-shingled in a year or two. If we can afford it, I’d like to do it next year.
- Furnace – The furnace is older and not as efficient as most of the current models. It works fine, but does use a lot more gas than a newer furnace would use. As soon as we can afford it, we’d like to replace the furnace.
- Replace hedge – Our front yard has a hedge along the bottom front of it. It’s half dead and the hubby really can’t stand it. We’d like to pull out the hedge and replace it with a flower bed or some small ball cedars.
- Replace trees – In front of the house (flanking the main door) are two trees. The pine was bug infested when we moved in and a family of woodpeckers has been having a field day with it. The other tree was planted too close to the house for the size of the tree. We’d like to remove both trees and replace them with dwarf trees planted the proper amount of space away from the house to ensure that they’ll stay heathy and not risk damaging the house in a case of a storm.
- Re-do basement ceiling – Our basement was finished with an industrial drop ceiling tile. We’d like to properly finish the basement ceiling and replace the ugly ceiling tiles.
- Front steps – We have a series of steep wooden stairs on the front of the house. I’d like to replace them with poured concrete (with a proper grade) if possible.
- Backyard deck – We have a gorgeous bi-level deck in our backyard but it’s a bit bigger than we really need. The deck will probably last a few more years before we need to replace it. When we do, we’ll be cutting two to three feet off the overall length of the deck so the dogs will have more yard to run around and play in. This will leave us with more than enough deck to host BBQ’s and gatherings on.
- Garage – The original 1950’s garage has seen better days. Next year we’d like to rip down the old garage and build a new double car garage in it’s place.
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