Decision Time [TM]

[sessifet]

Or, more accurately, Decision Has Been Made, Time to Make It Official Time.

I'm not pursuing any further job opportunities at the moment so I can spend at least three months on getting our house in order. Those who know me will be unsurprised I am making notes. Lots and lots of notes. With Plans on them. And planning to stick them on random walls and such.

Up to this point Project House Improvement, Or, Oh Great Squid What Have I Got Myself Into [colloquially referred to as Project H] has involved a lot of research into exciting things like asbestos testing, outside wall render, the acquisition of all the plastic storage boxes a woman could ever want and the vague hope my work is not going to make the bathroom land in the kitchen any time soon.

Putting it all down on paper means a lot of legwork, research and writing things down, because whereas azekeil understandably wants some reassurance on what I'll be doing with his money and his girlfriend, I'm more of the 'once more unto the breach' persuasion when it comes to DIY (growing up doing DIY does that for you). I've seen what happens when you hit a worst case scenario and how you deal with it and am thus happy to research as I go along, but it's also quite fun to research beforehand and to put it on paper. It allows you to visualise each required step and shows you where the natural resting points are within a project. I've actually just finished my first official plan and budget for the hallway, which includes best case and worse^* case plus the one most likely to resemble reality.

I've also set up a pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/sessifet/ where I put all the cool ideas I come across. Some of it is completely out there and not remotely feasible for this place (or any place unless you've got a couple of millions hidden in your sofa cushions), but it's mostly meant for inspiration rather than reality. It also should stop me from deciding the new kitchen floor need to be made of thousands of glued and lacquered 1'' rounds of wood (though that would be kind of cool and I need to experiment with that idea).

The official kick off date for Project H (i.e., when I am 'allowed' to actually start physically removing, adding and generally altering Stuff) is May 1st. I expect I will have remodelled the entire place at least three times over in my dreams by that point.

Yay DIY!

^*I have not written the worst case scenario, as that involves the discovery of high risk asbestos and us crying for a while before starting the whole thing from scratch with significantly fewer funds. It's not a bridge we are likely to have to cross during our perambulations, therefore I am content to sketch it in with a label reading 'Here Be (Fireproof) Dragons'.

Comments

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

I'm on pinterest too (as ciciaye). Not sure if you'd find my boards very interesting as they're mostly full of jewellery and beading ideas (and one called 'Various interesting things not to do with beads)

Hope the house improvements all go well :-)

[naath.livejournal.com]

ooooh, house-improving fun.

I wish I had budget and tuits for house-faff. (and the willingness to live in a, um, "project" for the time it would take; which is probably actually the deciding wossname considering that budget can trade-off on time)

[ev1ldonut.livejournal.com]

Good stuff! And good luck!
If you need help at any point, speak up. If I'm able, I'm happy to lend a hand :)

[azekeil.livejournal.com]

Thanks dude :)

[xidia.livejournal.com]

I have followed you with my usual username. I'm not starting a house ideas board until we've exchanged contracts...