The One Major Project I Forgot About (That I'd Like To Get Done In 2026)

Have you ever ever positioned a stack of containers in a nook of a room, even a room that’s used on a regular basis (like your bed room, household room, kitchen, and many others.) with a plan to maneuver these containers to their meant vacation spot (storage, thrift retailer dropoff, buddy’s home), and months later, these containers are nonetheless there and also you’ve develop into “blind” to them? It’s such as you develop into so accustomed to seeing them there that you simply not assume, “I really want to care for these,” once you see them. They’ve develop into a fixture within the room that you simply look proper over, and it often takes one thing like a go to from an out-of-town buddy so that you can “see” the containers once more and notice that they don’t belong there. I’ve carried out that. A number of occasions.

Effectively, I don’t have a stack of containers within the nook of a room that I neglected, however I do have an enormous venture that I neglected after I was making my “to do” listing for this yr. And it’s a doozy. However it’s one thing that I’ve develop into so accustomed to seeing over the previous few months that I regarded proper previous it.

I’m speaking about our flooring. Should you’ll bear in mind, I stained and sealed the flooring in our bed room suite not as soon as, however twice. The primary time I did it, I stained them to match the flooring in the remainder of the home, in order that they have been darkish. Right here’s what the bed room ground regarded like after that first spherical.

And right here’s what the bed room lobby regarded like…

I had dreamed of getting lighter flooring, however I believed I had already locked myself into having darkish flooring as a result of the remainder of the home had darkish flooring. However after giving it some thought, I noticed that if I needed to vary the colour of the flooring in our home, this was my alternative. I wanted to begin within the bed room suite, and I wanted to get it carried out earlier than I began transferring furnishings into the closet, lobby, and bed room.

So I sanded down the flooring once more, and redid them in a lightweight, pure coloration. I don’t have even the tiniest little bit of remorse over that call. I completely love these gentle flooring. I can’t even think about our bed room suite with darkish flooring. These gentle flooring are good, in my view.

However my “stack of containers within the nook of the room” that I’ve develop into so accustomed to seeing that I’ve develop into “blind” to it’s this very clear line between the bed room suite flooring and the remainder of the home.

That appears horrible. However it hasn’t bothered me as a result of in my thoughts, I’ve recognized that the plan is to lighten the flooring in the remainder of the home. There are 5 room/areas which have darkish stained purple oak flooring that should be sanded and sealed as a way to make them seem like the bed room suite flooring — the lounge, music room, kitchen, eating space (sitting room), and pantry.

The principle challenge is deciding when one of the best time is to redo these flooring. There are two points I would like to consider. I wish to redo all of those flooring on the identical time fairly than one room at a time. The primary challenge is that I’ll want a spot to retailer all the furnishings whereas the flooring are being redone. It appears logical that I ought to do the flooring earlier than I begin on my workshop since my workshop is fairly massive and pretty empty for the time being, so that will give me the proper spot to maneuver all the furnishings for storage whereas I’m redoing the flooring.

But when I do this, that signifies that I’ll should sand across the present kitchen cupboards.

And as soon as I’ve carried out that, I’m type of locked into conserving the very same format for the brand new kitchen cupboards that I wish to construct sooner or later. I’m unsure how I really feel about that. Virtually every part within the new kitchen might be in the identical footprint as the present kitchen except the again wall of cupboards.

unfinished stock oak cabinets used in my kitchen remodel

That’s the principle change I’ve deliberate for the brand new kitchen. As an alternative of the decrease and higher cupboards with a countertop, I wish to do floor-to-ceiling storage on that wall, and I don’t plan to have a middle half that juts out like I presently have. So I really want to assume by this. I’m so tempted to only go forward and do the flooring quickly after I end the bed room suite, however the kitchen appears to be my one roadblock.

One choice can be to go forward and take away these decrease cupboards on that again wall, redo the flooring, after which add some non permanent storage alongside that wall till I get to my kitchen rework. I may even go to Goodwill and buy an affordable buffet or one thing like that to place towards that wall. Or perhaps there’s one other resolution that I haven’t considered but.

Both manner, I would like to determine if there’s a manner that I can get these flooring carried out ahead of later. I simply really feel like proper now, earlier than I begin engaged on my workshop, is one of the best time to benefit from that large, free storage space that I’ve sitting in our again yard. As soon as that workshop is completed, I’ll lose out on that free storage, and I actually don’t wish to pay extra cash for non permanent storage.

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 the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.

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