Running thru life.... 2012 house goals

 Each December, I try to force myself to sit down and plan the next year out in my head. 

The things I am planning are trips, and house items that need to be done. 

So this post I am dedicating to our things that we have to do to our house in the upcoming year:

1) Storm Door

This is something we wanted to do for a while. 

However, when I looked into having it done, it was too pricey since our doorway is not a standard size and would need an additional door frame built. 

However, we will be doing this in March/April time period this year!
Money involved- from previous estimates $300-700 dollars
I will have to get new estimates since it has been over 1 year
Time involved- none since we will be paying for someone to do this

2) Paint the house

This is a project I have been putting off until we moved everything in to the house.

This will be a gradual project.
Money involved- varies depending on number of rooms
Time- OMG - I hate painting

3) Move the bushes out front to the side of our house and use that area for flowerbeds.

The bushes have gotten to big to the point that you can not open up your car door so we decided to move these plants to the side of the house.  After doing some research the best time to do this would be March/April time period.
Money involved:  Less than $50 to add flowers
Time:  1 afternoon with the help of hubby

4) Moving furniture into the house

Joe's parents are moving and planning on giving us a couple pieces of furniture. 

One is a piano and a hope chest.  The hope chest will be going in my closet since I have a huge closet and it will fit.  I am planning on storing all our winter belongings in there which will help get rid of some other storage items we have.  This will just force me to re-organize.
So this is a weekend project. 

 The piano we are still trying to figure out- it will either go in the sun room or down in the basement.  
Money: None!
Time:  This depends on needing help to move things in. 

5) The carpet down in the basement level.

It is starting to come up and is probably the orginial carpet that was placed in the house.

This is going to be a FALL project.
Money:  I have absolutely no idea and am just starting to think about getting carpet estimates.
Time: Being done by someone else which hopefully will be a day task

6) Guest room

Now I have ALOT of work to do here that I have been putting off for some time. 

Step 1: Get rid of all the furniture. 

This furniture was given to us by Joe's parents but it is falling apart, it is too big, and it is not our taste. 

It has been great up to this point.

Step 2: Paint

This room is huge so this will probably be a long weekend project
This is a project that I am saving for the winter/holiday time period 2012.

7)  Extra room in basement

Up to this point the extra room in the basement has been empty but I have decided to make it into an extra bedroom.  The furniture we will be using we already have except for an extra night stand which should be easy to pick up. So we just need to paint it and then move the furniture in. 
I will paint hopefully in the fall and have the room done by the next holiday eason.

8)Place floorboards in our stoage area in my closet
In doing this we will gain more storage which we are finding we are needing especially with the fact that Joe's parents are giving us alot of Joe's childhood stuff since they are moving. 
This is Joe's Chrismmas break project for this year.
We got up there last weekend to look at it. 
It would allow us to have so much storage!
Joe completed this task before I could even blog about my list! 
Money:  Less than $100 for floorboards
Time:  5 hours total

All the projects this year are considered minor considering in

2010 we redid the kitchen and in 2011 we did the patio and all the bathrooms.