Have you ever ever positioned a stack of bins in a nook of a room, even a room that’s used on a regular basis (like your bed room, household room, kitchen, and so forth.) with a plan to maneuver these bins to their meant vacation spot (storage, thrift retailer dropoff, good friend’s home), and months later, these bins are nonetheless there and also you’ve grow to be “blind” to them? It’s such as you grow to be so accustomed to seeing them there that you simply not assume, “I really want to maintain these,” once you see them. They’ve grow to be a fixture within the room that you simply look proper over, and it normally takes one thing like a go to from an out-of-town good friend so that you can “see” the bins once more and understand that they don’t belong there. I’ve finished that. A number of instances.
Properly, I don’t have a stack of bins within the nook of a room that I ignored, however I do have a giant mission that I ignored after I was making my “to do” checklist for this yr. And it’s a doozy. But it surely’s one thing that I’ve grow to be so accustomed to seeing over the previous couple of months that I appeared proper previous it.
I’m speaking about our flooring. In case you’ll keep 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, so that they have been darkish. Right here’s what the bed room ground appeared like after that first spherical.
And right here’s what the bed room lobby appeared like…
I had dreamed of getting lighter flooring, however I assumed 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 wished 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 finished earlier than I began shifting furnishings into the closet, lobby, and bed room.
So I sanded down the flooring once more, and redid them in a light-weight, pure shade. I don’t have even the tiniest little bit of remorse over that call. I completely love these mild flooring. I can’t even think about our bed room suite with darkish flooring. These mild flooring are good, for my part.
However my “stack of bins within the nook of the room” that I’ve grow to be so accustomed to seeing that I’ve grow to be “blind” to it’s this very clear line between the bed room suite flooring and the remainder of the home.
That appears horrible. But it surely 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 must be sanded and sealed with a purpose to make them appear to be the bed room suite flooring — the lounge, music room, kitchen, eating space (sitting room), and pantry.
The principle subject is deciding when the most effective time is to redo these flooring. There are two points I want to consider. I need to redo all of those flooring on the similar time quite than one room at a time. The primary subject is that I’ll want a spot to retailer the entire 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 in the intervening time, so that will give me the proper spot to maneuver the entire furnishings for storage whereas I’m redoing the flooring.
But when I try this, that implies that I’ll must sand across the present kitchen cupboards.
And as soon as I’ve finished that, I’m sort of locked into holding the very same format for the brand new kitchen cupboards that I need to construct sooner or later. I’m undecided how I really feel about that. Virtually every part within the new kitchen will likely be in the identical footprint as the present kitchen apart from the again wall of cupboards.
That’s the principle change I’ve deliberate for the brand new kitchen. As a substitute of the decrease and higher cupboards with a countertop, I need to do floor-to-ceiling storage on that wall, and I don’t plan to have a middle half that juts out like I at the moment have. So I really want to assume by way of this. I’m so tempted to simply go forward and do the flooring quickly after I end the bed room suite, however the kitchen appears to be my one roadblock.
One possibility could be to go forward and take away these decrease cupboards on that again wall, redo the flooring, after which add some short-term storage alongside that wall till I get to my kitchen transform. I might even go to Goodwill and buy a reasonable buffet or one thing like that to place towards that wall. Or possibly there’s one other resolution that I haven’t considered but.
Both manner, I want to determine if there’s a manner that I can get these flooring finished ahead of later. I simply really feel like proper now, earlier than I begin engaged on my workshop, is the most effective time to reap the benefits of 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 need to pay more money for short-term storage.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I transform and beautify 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’ll be able to study extra about me right here.
