{"id":3685,"date":"2013-04-14T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T04:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/add-vodka.com\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2015-07-07T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T21:45:29","slug":"the-never-ending-house-to-do-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/add-vodka.com\/the-never-ending-house-to-do-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The Never-Ending House To-Do List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday evening and I&#8217;m sitting here trying to unwind from a busy day.<\/p>\n<p>Home ownership is just as I thought it would be; my mom always owned our homes when we were growing up so I knew what it took. She was a single parent so my brother and I pitched in as much as she could convince us to, to help weed the garden, mow the lawn, paint, clean and do chores.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a huge surprise that owning our home means that there&#8217;s always something to do. Especially since it&#8217;s a house, not a condo or a townhouse. It has quite a large, which means quite a bit of yard work.<\/p>\n<p>Since we moved in, we&#8217;ve:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">Re-insulated\u00a0the attic<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Installed a kitchen in the basement<\/li>\n<li>Painted the bedroom<\/li>\n<li>Painted the bathroom<\/li>\n<li>Redid the stairs up to the back porch<\/li>\n<li>Re-located the washer and dryer and redid the venting<\/li>\n<li>Vented the bathroom<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/add-vodka.com\/project-spare-bedroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Decorated the spare room<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Installed racks in the closets (just hanging racks, the house didn&#8217;t come with them)<\/li>\n<li>Lifted the range (a larger job than we\u00a0originally\u00a0thought)<\/li>\n<li>Re-routed a garden (just a small one, but it required re-seeding the grass)<\/li>\n<li>Patched a big hole in the ceiling where a vent to nowhere was<\/li>\n<li>Put a deadbolt on the front door (for some reason, there was only a knob lock)<\/li>\n<li>Installed a door in the basement<\/li>\n<li>Sealed and caulked a drafty part of the wall in the basement foyer<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned the furnace, replaced the filter<\/li>\n<li>Weeded several of the gardens<\/li>\n<li>Reweeded several of the gardens<\/li>\n<li>Put weed plastic\/fabric stuff over the gardens to nip this weeding\/reweeding cycle in the bud<\/li>\n<li>Installed shelving in the garage<\/li>\n<li>Built a gate and installed in the backyard<\/li>\n<li>Replaced the roof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are likely projects that we have done that I don&#8217;t remember, but I&#8217;m too tired to think about it anymore.<\/p>\n<p>We moved in less than four months ago. Each and every week we get more and more done. Just a few weeks ago I weeded one of the front gardens to get it ready to put lava rock over top, but by the time I finished everything else, the garden needed weeding again because it took so long to get the lava rock.<\/p>\n<p>The fun doesn&#8217;t end here, either.\u00a0Here&#8217;s what left on our to-do list for the house:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finish the gardens<\/li>\n<li>Plant the vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Install some sort of storage in the basement bathroom<\/li>\n<li>Repave the driveway (sometime in the far future)<\/li>\n<li>Make a front patio (less to mow)<\/li>\n<li>Install some fence panels in the front<\/li>\n<li>Gate off the front yard<\/li>\n<li>Weed EVERYTHING and put that black stuff down to make sure we don&#8217;t have to do it again<\/li>\n<li>Deadbolt the downstairs door (it has one of those tricky button deadbolt things so we&#8217;re just going to go old school)<\/li>\n<li>Install shelving in the closets<\/li>\n<li>Put the back splash in the bathroom<\/li>\n<li>Make the office into a real office<\/li>\n<li>Build and install porch furniture on the back deck<\/li>\n<li>Put a closet in the loft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s just what is on our radar for the next 2-3 years. There are a few of these things that are on the immediate radar (roof, weeding, gate, deadbolt) and some that just aren&#8217;t going to get done for awhile because they aren&#8217;t that important.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure those of you who have ever purchased an older home know what I&#8217;m talking about, but you&#8217;re never bored when you are a home owner. I am sure when we get all of this done, there will be more things popping up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not complaining; I actually really enjoy it. I find that doing things to improve something that you own is a pretty amazing feeling. It&#8217;s just noteworthy &#8211; if you don&#8217;t like to stay busy around your home, don&#8217;t buy a house. Particularly not an older house with a lot of yard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a never-ending to-do list?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday evening and I&#8217;m sitting here trying to unwind from a busy day. 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