I’m At A Standstill For Now

Nicely, y’all, I’m at a standstill with my storage room challenge proper now, and I’m not but certain simply how lengthy this lull will final. As I shared on Monday, I’ve completed as a lot as I can do within the storage room for now. I can’t get the remainder of that subfloor up by myself, so I’m handing it over to my contractor to complete eradicating the subfloor, put down new subfloor, and do the drywall. As soon as that’s completed, I’ll take over the challenge once more and see it by to the tip.

However for now, the room appears like this…

And far to my chagrin, once I advised my contractor that I wanted his guys to return and end this for me, he didn’t volunteer to drop his present buyer and their present challenge like a sizzling potato and rush proper over to begin on my room. He really advised me that I’d have to attend till they’re completed with the challenge they’re engaged on proper now. I imply, the nerve of him to fail to appreciate how necessary I’m and the way my challenge ought to take precedence over anybody else’s! 🤣

Okay, clearly, I’m joking. 🤣 After all I’ve to attend my flip in line. Sadly, he’s not sure proper now how for much longer their present challenge will take. He stated they may be capable to begin on mine this subsequent Monday (the seventh), or it might be the Monday the next week (the 14th). That will be an actual bummer, however that’s okay. I simply want to search out one thing to occupy my time till they will get their a part of the storage room completed.

Whereas I’m ready, I’d actually like to begin engaged on the eating room. I’m simply unsure what I may really get completed in there proper now. My plan for some time now has been to have a painted eating desk. I’ve envisioned a inexperienced desk…

However I don’t have my new color-adjusted material cloth but, and I actually need to have that in hand earlier than I choose a paint coloration for the desk. I haven’t even ordered the material but as a result of I’m ready for a sale. All of their cloth was on sale for one thing like 25% or 30% off, however the sale ended the day earlier than I acquired my cloth pattern. Ugh! So now I’m ready for the following sale earlier than I make my buy. That signifies that portray the desk (if I comply with by with that plan) must be on maintain for now.

What I can do, although, is determine what I’m going to do with these two partitions flanking the pantry doorway.

Since I’m going to be eliminating the purple buffet to make extra room for the desk and chairs, I’d prefer to construct two new matching buffets for these partitions. They’ll be about 50 inches broad. I don’t assume I need them to be built-in. I envision them being separate items of furnishings like the present buffet within the room.

After I shared my concepts in a earlier submit, I shared this mockup of the realm. However now once I have a look at this, I don’t like how this appears in any respect. And naturally, I wouldn’t have two matching items of paintings, both.

I additionally shared this. I do like this look a complete lot higher, and I really like how the inexperienced pulls the inexperienced out of the backsplash tiles within the pantry. But when I do inexperienced on these buffets, I gained’t be capable to do my desk inexperienced. That’s an excessive amount of inexperienced and an excessive amount of painted furnishings in such a small room. One thing must be pure wooden.

If I do these in inexperienced, then I’d most likely need my desk to be a pure wooden coloration, however I don’t know if that’s even doable as a result of I don’t know what the wooden appears like below the finishes on that desk. So possibly that’s the place I want to begin. I have to get some paint stripper and see what sort of wooden lies below these finishes on the eating desk. After which primarily based on that, I could make my resolution on if the eating desk could be pure wooden or if it must be painted. After which I can go from there and give you a cohesive plan for all the room.

I feel if the desk must be painted, the 2 buffets flanking the pantry must be pure wooden. But when the desk could be pure wooden, the 2 buffets could be painted. So it appears like my place to begin is the eating desk, and it appears like I’ll be spending my day with paint stripper. I’ll present y’all what I discover below these finishes tomorrow, and hopefully by then, I’ll have a complete adorning plan in place for this room.

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.