The Stevens Family

January 2nd of last year I did our New Year's Resolution for our house. So, I dug it back up to see how well we did. I've highlighted everything with red that we've accomplished.

Jayden's Room

• Touch up floor paint
• Install and paint quarter round and floor trim
• Finish shelving (this is partly done)
  
• Install dimmer switch
• Blank covers for obsolete outlets
• Install lighting in closet
• Paint door

Master Bedroom

• One more coat of paint on walls
• Edging on ceiling
• Plate covers
• Finish Trim
• Install Door
• Install closet lights
• Run cable to our room

Upstairs Hallway

• Finish patching cracks
• Sand
• Primer and paint ceilings and walls
• Install lighting
• Switch plate covers
• Paint woodwork
• Install shelving

Kid's Bath

• Finish Floor
• Plumbing
• Order faucet for tub
• Sand walls
• Primer and Paint walls and ceiling
• Finish painting bead board
• Put up trim
• Put up and finish door
• Install Lighting
• Hang medicine cabinet

Stairway

• Sand, primer, paint walls and ceiling
• Sand and varnish woodwork (this is partly done)
  

Living Room

• Finish woodwork
• Finish installing built in media cabinet
• Finish dresser
• Finish and install french doors
• Touch up paint

Family Room

• Touch up paint
• Put up woodwork
• Finish woodwork
• Install built in bookshelves

Dining Room

• One more coat of regular paint
• Top coat paints
• Woodwork
• Switch plate covers
• Door on closet

Half bath

• Put in ceiling
• Plaster, sand, primer, and paint walls and ceiling
• Paint bead board and woodwork
• Plate covers (all but the lightswitch)
  
• Hang medicine cabinet

Kitchen

• Electrical
• Plumbing
• Drywall walls and ceiling
• Plaster, Sand, Primer and paint walls and ceiling
• Install and paint woodwork
• Sand and varnish floor <--We painted instead
  
• Install lighting
• Install cabinets
• Install appliances

Outside

• Scrape paint
• Primer
• Paint
• Begin landscaping

So basically, there is a lot we did get done, and there's a lot we didn't get done. BUT, part of what wasn't on the list was the front bedroom, because at the time we weren't necessarily planning on needing to have that room finished anytime soon. I'd still say it was a pretty good year. My list was fairly ambitious, because if we actually had finished it, our house would be done, and that just doesn't happen with old houses.

Last year at this time we didn't have anything close to a working kitchen or a fully functional bathroom, you can simply look here to see what we were living in. We had plastic up on the doorways that led into the kitchen, and I think we were still traveling to our parent's houses in order to shower. Now every appliance is up and going (well, basically...our ice maker isn't hooked up for our fridge and I use a match to light the gas burners on the stovetop), both of our bathrooms are complete, our dining room is actually used as a dining room and all three of our bedrooms are completely liveable. The outside of the house is still scary looking, but hey, we needed one good Halloween with it like it is.

There is a bit of an update. I'll post some pictures of the babies room once I actually take a picture of the near finished product. We still have some woodwork to finish, the floor to repair and the light to hang...but you'll get the gist of it.
So, that's it for our year end review. Maybe I'll be ambitious enough to do a new list here in a few days...but we'll see. With a newish job and a new baby, I don't know what we'll be able to accomplish. Hopefully I'll sell a couple of millions dollar houses and we can just hire the rest of the work done. :)