At the beginning of each year, I love to pull together a ‘home goals’ list to organize our home projects (because otherwise I go into ‘panic attack’ mode overthinking the things we have left to do, from window blinds to painting the wall and everything in between.) Taking deep breaths certainly helps, as does writing it down– from minor updates to organizational projects to major renovations– with an estimated timeline for achieving them. Planning eliminates the overwhelm when you have a lot on your to-do list. And whew, is our to-do list heavy… in a good way. I love this stuff.
With that in mind, I thought you might like to see what’s on deck (er, porch) around here this year!
1. Three-season Porch Addition
One of the major things we skipped when we built the house was adding on a porch. The model home’s porch was too small, we wanted a space large enough to eat, entertain, and relax outdoors without dealing with pests. Here’s our current deck situation… it faces the construction where they tore down all the trees (still so mad I can’t talk about it) so we want to put a porch up ASAP to be able to put curtains up and still enjoy being outdoors despite now having a house in our backyard (not pictured.