We’ve been renovating our house for the past six years. My parents joke that the house will be completely finished by the time we kids are ready to move out. Funny, very funny. Part of the pitfall of do-it-yourself remodeling is that things may wait for years to be finished, whether for lack of time, money, or energy.
But the real issue is that when you’re constantly planning for the big stuff, you miss the fact that there are little things that make our house a home. Pictures, for instance. For the first time in six years we have family photos on the walls. We don’t have a livingroom carpet (yet) and we may not have nice furniture, but having those pictures up makes the project feel one step closer to finished.
In my room, I’ve finally gotten all of the excess animal stuff out and all I need to do is organize it in the addition’s hall closet. I’m sick of all that stuff lying around my room. The barber chair, aka my desk chair, is going too.
We’re selling the two antique Shaker cabinets that are in my bedroom. They’re nice, but they’re huge, and for the space they consume they don’t provide a whole lot of storage space. After patching some of the holes in my walls I’d like to put up bookshelves and hang some photos and artwork.
The rabbits are currently being housed in a puppy exercise pen, but I’ll be replacing the pen with a Configure Gate. Luckily I already had the gate panels, because that’s not something I could afford at the moment. With the pen gone, the white gating will blend much more nicely with the white wainscoting and look less like a ‘cage’.
Another advantage of the pen is that it has a door. Now that Peanut’s balance issues are under control and she doesn’t need to stay in a confined space, I’d like to give the rabbits the chance to run around my room. That means a new area rug to go over the vinyl tile, and a better way to contain my computer wires.
And maybe at some point I’ll get myself a comfy chair, and a nice lamp, and have a reading corner. Until then, I can take little steps, progress towards a homier, happier living space.
