I have a love/hate relationship with fixing up my house. Don't get me wrong. I like it clean and organized. But when we bought the house, we bought it as a starter house. We weren't going to live there for long, and it definitely wouldn't hold us with two children.
When we bought the house I despised the kitchen counter tops. They are hideous. I have since seen the counter top used at restaurants and my obgyn. Yeah. I'm not a fan. But geez, that costs too much money for a starving artist and her teacher husband. And on top of that, we won't be here too long. Well, when my son was about a year and half, my dad built this beautiful floor to ceiling built in book shelf. Wow. That alone told me I could never give up this house. Stunning. And everyone loves it. But then the rest of the house looked blegh. That's my love/hate relationship. Every time we do something in our house that makes, it makes another part of that room look worse. It's a never end cycle of fixing, improving, repairing, and spending! We spend our time and money. It gets you though. You start a project. You hope it goes well. You finish the project. LOVE! Why didn't we do this sooner? Oh, right. Time and money. Things we didn't have. We got a little of it. Then we used it all on that small project. Now we need more of it to keep going. Not all projects take money. Sometimes it's just the time. It's sorting through clothes. It's reorganizing dressers and cabinets. It's making a mess, so you can make it cleaner. The mental fatigue (at least for someone like me) is overwhelming. But then once it is done, the satisfaction outweighs the frustration. At least for the time being. Throughout the last two years, we have done a great deal with our home. Minor improvements inside and out. But now that we are actually taking the time and money to make things better, I can't help but see all of the things that are awful. My hope is that one day I will wake up to a well painted house with organized rooms and counters that don't make me want to vomit. Until then, I'm grateful for a home that protects us. My new task of recent weeks is to take projects and divide them into smaller pieces. Each Wednesday I try to knock out one piece of the project. The goal is that by the end of the year, my home will look new and fresh, organized, and maximized. I don't know if it will happen, but I have enjoyed my weekly projects. This year I have added privacy film to windows, had my husband paint accent walls, reorganized my kitchen cabinets, reorganized my closet and dresser, changed up the laundry room, and organized bathrooms and bedrooms. Little by little, things are improving. But there is still much that needs attention - and cash flow! Because I spend most of my days in my home, I am finding it more important to make it the home I want. It is this little piece of appreciation and renovations that can bring peace.
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