Well I have officially been a "hone-owmer" for a full year (as of Aug.28 actually) and this is now my second turkey dinner to be cooked in this place. I was looking back over the year's worth of renovations and work and was pretty happy with the list that I got done:
1. I deep cleaned a very dirty, dusty, grimy, and overall fairly filthy house that was full of garbage... until it shined!
2. Emptied a yard full of everything from a fooze-ball table to portable car park tents, to scrap wood, to the kitchen sink....with a few trips to the dump/recycle with my handy honda civic.
3. Re-painted: 2 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, a kitchen, and a couple halls
4. Re-finished (scraped, sanded, stained, and varnished) all the wood trim in my bedroom (a VERY dusty procedure)
5. Sewed a set of curtains
6. Had the outside of the house painted
7. Replaced the hot-water heater
8. Framed in, fixed electrical, dry-walled, puttied, puttied and puttied some more, and painted my now beautiful and clean laundry room
9. Plumbed in a functioning laundry room sink
and
10. Somehow managed to figure out a little of what is going on in my yard, realize I have blackberries now, and got my compost bucket up and running.
Among a myriad of smaller projects like pillows and bedspreads.
I've realized that I love owning my own home, it's like having a permanent and never ending project that you can (mostly) choose to work at on your own pace. It feels fulfilling to actually be putting my money towards something, rather than paying someone else's mortgage. The house even managed to hold its own in the downturn of this economy. Fingers are crossed that year two goes by smoothly and the market values start to head back uphill.
As for that second turkey dinner. I'll let you know tomorrow...
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