The Three Room Non-Challenge

Hi everyone! It’s October and I’m writing my first post of the year. There’s been a lot of awfulness that I don’t want to write about this year, so I’ll just give you the bare minimum.

My mother-in-law bought a house.

We spent half of 2020 in Florida, mostly helping her.

I have no love for hot weather.

Anyway, we’re back home, and back to the plans I had for this year. I wanted to do the One Room Challenge to finish, really finish, the kitchen this spring. Then I wanted to do it this fall. The room has been about 95% done for years, so it’s not a huge project.

It’s interesting: I planned the room something like 5 years ago, before the cabinets even had doors, and we’re following my original plan almost to the letter. Back when we made plans for Tito to move in, I told him that I wanted him to feel at home here, and that if there were changes he wanted to make to paint colors and what not, we could make those changes. Then he said that this blue I used looked like Eagles green and I told him when I said that I wasn’t talking about the cabinets. They were enough work the first time. Turns out he wasn’t complaining, so that’s good because I don’t want him to dislike his kitchen.

Anyway, we are still working on the kitchen. But not only the kitchen. This summer there was some weird problem with water pressure at the bathroom sink. I couldn’t figure out how to repair this cheap faucet and the little sink that came with the house wasn’t supposed to stick around this long anyway.

So, I took care of the water pressure just fine because now there is no bathroom sink. We’ll want to remedy that soon.

And, remember the front door jambs? They were crudely built so water can sit up here. What a waste of mahogany.

Meanwhile, a period correct replacement has been floating around between our bedroom, the living room, and my parents’ garage for about 3 years. I’ve stripped it, primed it, glazed it, and saved up to had it installed, and with a little bit of luck it’s actually getting installed this fall! We’ll need to get it painted as soon as weather permits after that happens.

And why do I say non-challenge? Because I love fall. I love being outside in the fall. I do not love being outside in Florida in the summer. And since there aren’t going to be any holiday parties to clean up for this year, we’re back to the Crooked House way. Jump around, chip away at this and that, and don’t worry about actually finishing anything. Except the bathroom sinks. We want those working as soon as we can.