The List

Week two of the William Morris Project and it is time for a plan.  Time to put all those things to be done on one list  - The List.  I have partial written lists all over the place (that is me, all over the place) and lots of items I would like to complete, but never dared to put on paper or just don't have the money for.  Jules wrote out her list by room and I have to admit that I had a bit of a "Ah Ha" moment when I read it.  A list by room, how totally elementary and yet it never entered my mind to do so.  I did a walk through of our house and property and here is what I came up with.  Feel free to skip to the picture of the roses my mom brought me from her garden last week (as in January).

Entry

• Find the perfect round mirror and hang by door
• Hang exit sign
• Organize and purge closet

Powder Room

• Sew ribbon on towels  (couldn't resist)
• Replace trash bin (I dream of this)

Living/ Dining Room 

• Purge books
• Replace IKEA Bookshelves with custom built-ins
• Purge CDs and DVDs
• Finally decide on window treatments, buy and install them (yup, three years of living here and not a single window treatment is up)
• Install that missing piece of floor moulding
• Buy a new TV cabinet
• Minimize all those cables
• Move outlet by couch
• Paint that stool
• Artwork (I need something big by the couch)
• Replace IKEA unit with a proper buffet
• Replace crap knock-off Eames DSW with real ones (maybe one at a time)
• New floor (yes we have only lived here 3 years, but ours drives me crazy)

Kitchen

• Purge and organize front bottom drawer
• Hang knifes
• Hang utensil rod
• Re-organize flatware drawer
• Get rid of bread box and find a different place for bread
• Buy kitchen clock (dreaming of this)
• Re-organize lazy susan cabinets
• Move outlet by coffee machine
• Repair or replace built-in waste receptacle
• Clean under, behind and top of refrigerator

Upstairs Hallway 

• Re-hang picture wall

Sam's Room

• Purge & organize toys
• Purge books
• Purge & organize IKEA cabinet
• Purge & organize closet
• Decide on window treatments, buy and install
• Remove the circle appliques 
• Hang map

Bedroom

• New mattress
• Decide on window treatments, buy and install
• New chairs for balcony
• Paint silent waiter
• Figure out what to do with my Grandmother's mirror
• Clean, buff etc. Eames (?) ottoman
• Purge handbags
• Replace bedside cabinets with ??
• Replace bedside lighting with wall mounted fixtures

Master Bath

• Finally buy lighting fixture for above mirror
• Wallpaper  side & back wall

Office

• Purge cabinet
• Hang pictures
• Decide on window treatments, buy and install

Extra Room

• Sell or give away bookshelves

2nd Bath 

• Have tiling finished (it is actually "done", but I decided to add some more. I think)
• Have bathroom fixtures hung
• Buy wall mounted cabinet (something like this)
• Decide on lighting fixtures, hang
• Buy shower rod & curtain, hang

Basement

• Desk back to my Aunt
• Sell or give away bookshelf
• Purge shelves
• Rod/Shelf system for diving equipment 
• Wood to garage
• Re-paint floor

Pantry

• Cabinet for refrigerator
• Purge & organize shelves
• Re-paint floor 

Garden 

• Plant white rose (maybe Claire Austin)
• Plant hydrangeas along garage
• Plan/build water feature
• Re-design herb/kitchen garden
• Expand plant bed by magnolia
• Add plant bed by pergola
• Hang wrack system for garden tools in shed
• Paint garage back door
• Paint garden shed doors
• Install threshold to front entry of garden shed 
• Buy/Install Deck Parasol

No particular room

• Finish Sam's baby album (I am such a loser)
• Remove all of those finger prints off of the walls
• Replace thermometers (if I win the Lotto it will be these) 

Next week one of these items will have a line through it and I hope to find an exciting way to write about it.  At the moment I am thinking of tackling the entry closet.  Exciting stuff for sure.

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

- William Morris