Keeping Track

When we bought our last house it was very much a blank slate. Over the 6 years we lived there we made a lot of changes and improvements, and I have NO photos.
So I've decided I'm going to document and record the update of this house. Unfortunately for you that means all my blog posts will be remodel related. Not very entertaining, but I'm not really blogging for you -  it's for posterity.

Project 1 Begins:

Ok, not really project one, because it's just my project (this would be a subset of the bulleted list)...Anyhow. Our house is mostly white however the few rooms they painted are quite colorful. I like color - a lot, but it needs to be well chosen. And a bright orange bathroom is not well chosen. Tonight I started priming the bathroom and bedroom (it was a fine shade of green but not in a darker room - and green isn't a sleeping color to me...)
Before I could get painting I had to get the heat going (yup, I 'm handy like that) and do a little demo of the ugly shutters on the bathroom window. Then I removed the exorbitant amount of beige wall plates. Seriously -beige? Who has beige light switch covers and beige trim. Even Penny has white trim and she's the queen of beige. Anyhow, that's all getting remedied.

Next up, another coat of primer, real paint color, switch out the beige lights and plugs for white, and paint trim... all before Art gets here this weekend so he gets surprised. (No, he doesn't read our blog, I am not ruining the surprise.)
I'll be adding empty house photos soon - It's very different totally empty.

Systematic

I am an organized person. Quite organized. Some would say to the point of OCD. I just really like things in their place. And I really like a calendar. And I REALLY like a spreadsheet.
When we were getting ready to move I typed up a nice bulleted list explaining when we were loading, the process, where things were moving, etc. Kyle made fun of me.
But you know what, our move went pretty smoothly. Even after we moved it up a day and I had to reissue the bulleted list with an updated calendar. (It probably helped that I had every box double labeled and color coded for weight and placement in a box pile. OCD? well maybe.)
Now that we are homeowners (wahoo!) I am finding that my systematic tendencies are again bubbling up. You see we are planning some major projects before we move into the house. Things like gutting a kitchen, relocating a laundry room, laying new floors, and maybe knocking down a wall (you know, the open-concept - it's great for entertaining (Please note sarcasm, we like to make fun of people on House Hunters)). So the list of things to do is long, and complicated.
You can't put in floors until you demo. But you can't demo until you check the structure (we really don't want to cave in the roof). And you can't do a new kitchen until after floors and demo but before molding. You see, it's complicated.
So this weekend was our planning session. We wandered around the house measuring, noting, figuring, and planning. We determined the order of operations (I wish it was as easy as PEMDAS). And assigned chores (Art has to plan and build a kitchen - I have to get the gas turned on and remove wallpaper - we all have our skills.) The lists and calendar are actually a bit longer than that and incorporate our schedules for the next few weeks. Our weekends in Logan are laid out and our weekly to-do lists are prepared. All of this nicely typed up on a colorful calendar and bulleted list.
I emailed this to Art this evening. I'm sure it's sitting in his Inbox, and if I'm lucky he'll open it before next weekend. Meanwhile I will remind him of the chores I am ticking off my list and the chores he has scheduled to complete during the week. And I will systematically plan the remodel of our house, and HE will do things whenever he dang well pleases.