lists.

OK, so a little while ago I set this up so I could blog solely about the remodel progress of my 1923 Arts & Crafts bungalow, and am just now getting to the first post. So last Thursday I sat down after Julian was in bed surrounded by a myriad of catalogs picking out fixtures and furniture for my bedroom – going to get on that, for real now. Afterall, it has only been over a year of missing walls and my bed propped up on a pile of sheetrock. Starting with finishing the electrical, which will include wiring for two Rejuvenation Arts & Crafts wall sconces (on a dimmer, of course) in between where my bed will go for the main lighting (no recessed lighting in the room, just one in the closet that I will have to wire), a perfect ceiling fan from Restoration Hardware and of course the structured network cabling (4 runs of Cat6, one in and one out of RG6 cable to each outlet box – two in the bedroom).

Once that is finished, I will order the two Marvin aluminum-wood clad windows I need to replace (one will be a sash kit so an easy install, the other will require completely removing the existing window and putting in a new frame). Then hang the drywall and mud and tape (it is not a year of working on the house if there is no mudding and taping of drywall to be done). Then paint the walls (I think I have the color picked out but we'll see – it could change). Then install the carpet (um, paying someone to do that). Then hang all the trim (which will already be primed/painted), including a layered crown molding/casing/fillet combination along the ceiling. Then (finally) mortise and hang the doors after installing the hardware (I estimated it will cost me more for the flippin' hardware than the doors themselves – as in, the doorknob alone is more than the door – granted, I got a killer deal on all of the solid fir, 5-panel Simpson shakers I bought but that still makes me cringe a bit).

But anyways, this post was actually supposed to be about this list that I came across as I was going through my box o' house plans and stuff looking for the estimates I got on the windows last fall before leaving for Hawaii. I apparently made it one week after moving in and it reads ~

* TO DO LIST – WEEK OF 5/7

☐ Take down all lattice shutters + other decorations on outside of house (as applicable)
☐ Wash all windows inside + out
☐ Remove all baseboard heaters + controls from walls (including basement) but *NOT darkroom
☐ Take down decorations inside (mirrors, etc.)
☐ Remove all hardware not needed from windows
☐ Mow lawn after shifting mower height down (1) notch + weed eat
☐ Try to fix garage door opener
☐ Put together J's bed
☐ Begin working on unsticking south living room windows
☐ Begin building screens for my N, J's N, and any L.R. windows you get unstuck – materials are in the garage
☐ Look @ fridge -> measure how far it is angled to shim

I think there might be a second sheet (it's somewhat amusing that 99% of my house plans and drawings and ideas are on random pieces of paper scattered about in this box and perhaps somewhat amazing is that I can find what I am looking for with relative ease).

Anyways, I got a kick out of that. The list for the bedroom is less sporadic and more orderly, but there is something quaint about this first of many, many lists that followed and have yet to be created.