I all the time take the final week between Christmas and the New 12 months off from the weblog, however this yr, I’ve determined to take those subsequent two weeks off. Issues are simply transferring so slowly at the bed room suite. I had anticipated the contractor’s section to be completed two weeks in the past, and right here we’re two weeks later and infrequently anything else has been performed. And as for the initiatives I sought after to be aware of whilst they’re running at the bed room suite, smartly, the elements and my Amazon shipments had been uncooperative.

So somewhat than pressure in regards to the loss of development, I’m simply going to take the following two weeks to destress, spend time with Matt, watch a couple of tacky Christmas motion pictures, and get able for the brand new yr. Confidently by way of then, I will hit the bottom operating at the bed room suite initiatives and get the ones knocked out as briefly as conceivable.

This yr has been…other. It hasn’t been other in a foul means. It’s been other in a great way. But it surely’s surely been other.

Identical to I do once a year, I began off 2024 with a Grasp Record of House Targets. You’ll see my entire 2024 listing right here: 2024 Master List of Home Goals. And the yr began off with me tackling the studio. Right here’s the way it regarded originally of the yr…

And right here’s the way it appears now…

However from there, all of my different plans for the yr roughly went off the rails. I had plans to complete the studio part bathtub…

And I had plans to do a couple of minor initiatives within the visitor bed room…

And I had plans to do a makeover within the hallway toilet…

However the primary factor on my 2024 listing was once the beginning the addition. And 12 months in the past, that is what I envisioned the addition taking a look like…

However then issues went utterly off the rails once we began having some severe issues issues of our house fitness center ground. I had handiest completed the house fitness center 17 months previous, and we had been getting a ton of use out of the room. So it was once extremely discouraging to seek out that the ground in that room was once ruined to the purpose that it was once buckling so badly that I’d travel over it.

The speculation of getting to switch floor (and subfloor) in a room that was once slightly lately completed despatched me right into a tailspin. I referred to as off the addition that we had deliberate for the final 8 years, and I went again to the strategy planning stage. In spite of everything, changing the ground and subfloor in a pier and beam area isn’t a small factor. So if we had been going to have to do this anyway, then this was once the time to reevaluate our plans and make any wanted adjustments.

And that’s what we did. After you have lots of enter from readers on a complete vary of concepts, and after trying out about more than likely 50 other ground plan concepts, we’ve in the end settled in this ground plan for our area…

It was once an overly lengthy and circuitous path to get to that ultimate ground plan. And after all, did we in reality accomplish anything else? I imply, we’re nonetheless going to construct an addition, despite the fact that the brand new addition isn’t just about as large as the unique addition, so we’ll lower your expenses.

However I’m in truth more than happy with this new course. After spending months wrestling with those choices, and getting enter from such a lot of readers, I used to be ready to “see” our house and our ground plan with new eyes, as a way to talk. I used to be introduced concepts that I by no means would have considered in one million years (like turning the studio toilet right into a walk-through pantry for simple get admission to from the again door into the kitchen). I used to be ready to reconsider concepts that I had in the past written off as a result of I believed they had been virtually inconceivable (like transferring our kitchen to the breakfast room and pantry house).

And each and every unmarried day, I am getting increasingly enthusiastic about our new bed room suite the place we’re turning the house fitness center into our bed room,

…and turning the visitor bed room into our walk-in closet and laundry room.

So whilst that ruined house fitness center ground looked like a sad factor at the present time, I feel issues have became out simply superb. I like this new plan for our area even higher than all of our unique plans for that vast addition. Every so often issues simply have some way of running themselves out.

So subsequent yr appears to be a sexy thrilling yr. My major preliminary focal point might be our bed room suite — bed room, closet, and hallway. After that, I’ll flip my consideration to our new kitchen, after which as soon as the brand new kitchen is done, I’ll tear out the outdated kitchen and switch it right into a eating room. In order that’s a preview of what I feel 2025 holds. However for now, I’m going to take it simple for a couple of days and watch a Christmas film or two. I’ll meet y’all again right here within the New 12 months!

Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I percentage my DIY and adorning adventure as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is not able to do bodily paintings, so I do nearly all of the paintings at the area on my own. You can learn more about me here.