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Monday POLL: Summer Projects

Since the summer is coming to a close...are there any projects or things you wanted to get done this summer that you haven't yet?

Re: Monday POLL: Summer Projects

  • I always have potential projects in mind but right now the summer project we haven't gotten done yet is buying new patio furniture and a new grill (we realized the bottom is rusting on ours...oops!).  We had decided to wait until the end of season to get a new grill and did some shopping yesterday but haven't purchased yet.  I still haven't found a patio set that I love.  Ok...correction I found chairs that I adore at Crate & Barrel but DH wasn't in love with them as much as I was Sad

    Next year I'll probably be redoing the landscaping in the back because I'm just not crazy about how it looked this year.  I did make progress with the front though and I think its much more welcoming (porch makeover is in my bio).

  • Does getting my DH commissioned in the Navy count? LOL! We don't have any projects looming...mainly because we know we are moving soon. I do want to try and get to Hersheypark this summer before we leave the area.
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  • I wanted to find a nice patio set that would be good indoors in our sunroom -  but with being on bedrest and having Jack I haven't gotten to do much shopping. Hopefully I'll find something on clearance here so I can avoid getting the papsans at Pier One that DH wants. I also want to organize my closet and finish organizing my craft room before I go back to work.
  • does dropping 20 lbs count? lol. I didn't get to really focus on anything but work this summer, which is good I guess because at ft job I had two new customers, and pt job was a small business startup, so I can't say I didn't accomplish anything.

    I do wish I could have done more around the house though - there is a headboard in my sunroom waiting to be spray-painted black and attached to the bed in our guest room. the sunroom floor also needs to be painted, and we need to actually get our wedding pictures and hang them up!

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  • We did the outside work that the HOA wanted us to do and we bought some patio furniture.  We also managed to get a lot of vegetables so far in our little garden.  Also on our list was to clean all of the carpet in our house and we did finish that a few weeks ago.

    Still on our list though is to repaint a few problem areas in the house and then think about tackling the grout this winter.

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  • We wanted to get the wall ripped out/replaced, hang a ceiling fan, paint ceiling/walls, new baseboard, and new boardboard heater in the room that will eventually be a nursery....we're about 1/2 way.
  • We have a HUGE to-do list because we just moved into our house in the beginning of May. We've mostly been doing things outside (our flower beds were pretty overgrown) but we are mostly done for now with the yard. We just had our living room furniture delivered mid-July so now we're deciding on paint colors and starting to decorate inside. I'm hoping to get the LR/DR painted and decorated by the end of August!
  • We had a big to-do list.  We are replacing our roof shingles, siding on "old" part of the house to match the new siding on the addition, adding a deck to the front of the house, setting up the nursery and finishing the addition interior.  We've done A LOT, but it's not all finished yet.  The new roof shingles are finished and our new master bedroom is done.  The siding is about 95% finished.  The nursery just got started and probably DH will want to begin the deck as soon as the nursery is ready to go. 

    DH has done all the work himself.  We still have an unfinished master bathroom and walk-in closet in the addition to complete, but on the priority list they fall pretty low.  Baby #2 is coming soon (EDD is 5 weeks from tomorrow) so we really need to be ready for her!  

  • I've revised my dining room repainting project deadline from spring to summer, and now it's moved to Thanksgiving.  I'm still hoping we'll have thet the torn out bathroom reassembled by September.  Cutesguy started tiling the floor this past weekend!

  • DH has had a long list for himself, which included building a deck, and that's done. He's been working on the landscaping a lot, too.

    Mine (both of ours) was the nursery, which is essentially done. Just waiting for our glider and ottoman to come in to decide on the final furniture positioning.

    In preparing the nursery, we also cleaned out and organized 3 different closets, which gave me a nice sense of accomplishment :)

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  • I really wanted to clean up my back and side yards but that didn't happen.  I am finally finishing my living room that was painted in January.  The new floor is being installed today and tomorrow and the new blinds should be in next week. 
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  • DH and I just moved in together for the first time the day we got back form our honeymoon (June 1st), so since then its been all about getting our apt set up.  We have a spare bedroom that has become kind of a "dumping ground" for all the stuff we don't know what to do with, so I had intentions all summer of cleaning it up.  Of course, between starting a new job, moving to a new city, and studying for my PT board exam (which I found out today I passed!!!!!!!), it never got done.

     Hopefully now that the exam is overwith, I will have more time to organize in there, and to add the little accent decorations to the apt that really makes a house look nice.

  • imageteddybearjk2009:

    DH and I just moved in together for the first time the day we got back form our honeymoon (June 1st), so since then its been all about getting our apt set up.  We have a spare bedroom that has become kind of a "dumping ground" for all the stuff we don't know what to do with, so I had intentions all summer of cleaning it up.  Of course, between starting a new job, moving to a new city, and studying for my PT board exam (which I found out today I passed!!!!!!!), it never got done.

     Hopefully now that the exam is overwith, I will have more time to organize in there, and to add the little accent decorations to the apt that really makes a house look nice.

    Congrats on passing the exam TeddyBear!

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    imageteddybearjk2009:

    DH and I just moved in together for the first time the day we got back form our honeymoon (June 1st), so since then its been all about getting our apt set up.  We have a spare bedroom that has become kind of a "dumping ground" for all the stuff we don't know what to do with, so I had intentions all summer of cleaning it up.  Of course, between starting a new job, moving to a new city, and studying for my PT board exam (which I found out today I passed!!!!!!!), it never got done.

     Hopefully now that the exam is overwith, I will have more time to organize in there, and to add the little accent decorations to the apt that really makes a house look nice.


    Congrats on passing the exam TeddyBear!

     

    Thanks, CutesBoots!!

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