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Sunday, February 18, 2007
What are your “Great American Dream” projects?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Home ownership is often touted as the “Great American Dream.”
While I agree, I consider the purchase of my first home one of my ultimate achievements.
I set out looking for a home that would both inspire my imagination and personally challenge me.
Little did I realize at the time, any home would have been a challenge.
I had very little in terms of anything including furniture when I first moved in.
I had the whole proverbial “bachelor working with a blank slate” thing going on.
No couch. No dining room furniture. Hardly nothing.
All I really had was some industrial shelving used as a makeshift entertainment center, two hand-me-down chairs and coffee table, bed frame, and a few other little side tables and such.
It was really pretty embarrassing.
Almost three years later, I have made significant progress in moving from that blank slate to making my house a home.
You would think that living in as close proximity to Furniture Row that I do adding all those elements of a home should have come easy.
Not only am I extremely picky, I seem to have great difficulty in trying to make up my mind on one decorating scheme or another.
Somehow I did manage to put a hodge podge of furniture together including a leather love seat and recliner, dining room table and chairs, a china cabinet and a king sized iron bed frame.
I’ve made some significant in roads on updating and decorating the home too.
The tacky 1980’s wallpaper from both the kitchen and half bath walls are gone. I have added decorative molding to the kitchen cabinets and painted the kitchen, half bath and hallway.
Some of the artwork I have collected thus far include a small Scott Westmoreland collection for the half bath, a Mayan ink print of a lion from Belize, and various other trinkets and thingamajigs and lots and lots of candles throughout the house.
While the entire house will always be a work in progress, the only room I consider “complete” at this point is my half bath. I have barely touched the upstairs.
This year, as I do every year, I set certain goals to meet or be completed by years end.
Some of them include the following home improvement goals:
Upstairs bathrooms: Remove tacky wallpaper and paint; update lighting and other fixtures. Kitchen: Add arches to entry ways, repaint (if I can settle on a color), change faucet, add ceiling tins, and maybe tile the countertop. Create and add to collection of artwork. Gardening including plants, flowers and cayenne peppers.
Those are but a few of the things I have ahead of me this year, but I am as usual looking forward to the challenge.
What projects have you already completed on your home that your particularly proud of or consider a significant achievement? What projects do you have planned for your home this year?
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