Properly, y’all. The studio rest room is just about completed. I nonetheless want to hold the paintings, cope with ending out the awkward electrical outlet, and do just a few paint touchups. It’s all the time these previous few nagging element initiatives that get me slowed down. I’ll attempt to get the photographs taken right now, however I received’t make any guarantees. It may be Wednesday earlier than I can present you the ultimate rest room.
Till then, let’s discuss in regards to the again of our home and our again patio. I don’t present this space of our home a lot (if ever) as a result of, fairly frankly, it’s ugly. Y’all know I’ve needed to tear down the sunroom and construct an addition again right here for the final ten years. However right here we’re, in 2026, and we nonetheless have the sunroom.
Once we had the brand new siding put in and painted, I had them cease on the sunroom as a result of I didn’t wish to waste cash on a room that I assumed can be passed by now. So not solely is it ugly, but it surely additionally stands proud like a sore thumb as a result of it’s a very totally different coloration.
However now that we’ll be protecting the sunroom for some time longer, I’m considering it may be time to go forward and paint it. I nonetheless don’t wish to put new siding on it. That may really feel like an entire defeat to me, and I’m not prepared to surrender on my dream of an addition and provides into defeat simply but. However a few gallons of paint? I can do this. And since I’m about to show my consideration to some out of doors initiatives for some time, this may be the right time to do this.
I’m additionally excited about lastly eliminating this awkward hearth planter combo. We’ve by no means used the hearth, and I wouldn’t even really feel secure utilizing it with that tree so near it. And the planters are falling aside and act as a weed manufacturing unit proper now. I’ve needed to do away with them for therefore lengthy now, however I all the time thought I’d delay any initiatives again right here till we get the addition constructed. However I’m bored with ready.
I feel with a coat of paint on the sunroom and people planters and hearth eliminated, the again of our home might look…first rate. It received’t look nice so long as that sunroom is there, however first rate is healthier than what it’s now.
And eradicating that planter and hearth would go a good distance in direction of opening up that space visually and making the entire again yard feel and look extra usable.
Proper now, we don’t even use our again patio in any respect. Because the sunroom has been used as a storage room for therefore lengthy, we mainly keep away from it altogether, which implies that the patio isn’t simply accessible. So I take advantage of the patio for initiatives (I’ve painted many a cupboard door on the market over time), and that’s the place I collect all of my previous partially empty paint cans that may’t be thrown away within the common trash and need to be taken in for recycling.
However now that the plan is to truly use the sunroom as a house gymnasium (which is able to hopefully be short-term, however I do not know how lengthy that will probably be), that implies that this patio will probably be extra accessible to us. So I’m including this stuff to my record of the out of doors initiatives that I’d wish to deal with. I don’t assume it’ll ever look nice so long as that sunroom continues to be there, however I can think about the world with the siding painted to match the remainder of the home, the planters and hearth gone, and the patio arrange with a cute out of doors seating space that we are able to really get pleasure from.
I feel the time has come to cease pushing aside utilizing our again yard till after we’ve constructed the addition. That has been my mindset all this time, however I actually wish to get our entire home, together with the again yard, to the place we are able to really use and revel in it with out placing it off for a dream that appears to get extra out of attain with every passing day. I don’t wish to cling all of our hopes on one thing that will not occur for an additional few years…or might not occur in any respect. I wish to end our home, as it’s now, and truly dwell in it.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance 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 possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
