Friends,
There is nothing I love more than a good home project. Keith can tell you. My favorite line when we buy any furniture second-hand is ‘we can paint it!’
Given the current shelter-in-place restrictions here in Oakland, we have a LOT of time on our hands. Instead of twiddling our thumbs or watching an ungodly amount of television (let’s be real, we’re still doing that!), I want to tackle some projects that we’ve had on our list for ages. Are you doing the same? I’m sure everyone else in the country has a similar list, so I’m suspecting it will be hard to get our hands on supplies, but I do want to tackle anything we can. We’ve been slowly weeding the front yard a little bit here and there and it feels good to look at something and think ‘I did that!’ when so much in this life feels out of control right now.
Here’s our project list:
- Decorate the mirror I bought at the White Elephant sale in January. See photo above! I have a start… I pulled that oak box out of my closet (it used to be my shoe rack) and added a couple of plants. I’m at a loss for what to put in the actual box as we live on a busy street and our living room gets real dusty, real fast. I also want to put some dried roses above the mirror that are currently in our shed. Will that look creepy?
- Paint our front door. You can see it in the photo above. Shout out to our dog Jax for totally scratching the heck out of our front door! In all fairness, it had really cheap paint on it when we moved in that flaked off super easily. I am thinking I want to paint it a pretty dark green in chalkboard paint so that I can leave inspirational self-help messages on the door for myself and my family. I’m a real treat to live with!
- Clean out the fridge. It needs some elbow grease and an organizational system of some sort.
- Strip the painted concrete outside and add the outdoor lights I bought at Costco last year. We are going to BBQ so hard once this covid craziness is over.
- Paint Back and Front Porches. I’m tired just typing that.
- Weed front yard and finally add flowers to the flower bed. I’m totally paralyzed as to which flowers to put in there, but I’ve weeded about half of it so far. A little bit every day.
- Buy and propagate more plants for our house and backyard. If we have to be stuck indoors, let’s make it feel like we live in a jungle!
- Paint bedroom a pretty light blue and then string LED fairy lights and put glow in the dark stars on the ceiling. Enchanting!
What about you? Are you on the project train? Feel free to share your plan in the comments. I will totally cheer you on!
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