I know, I know, everyone has posted their goals this month..I am linking up to The Nesting Place so read along and better yet, join in.
I never thought much about goals for my home, but why not. I think my biggest goal for my home is to mentally come to love this place and realize it IS home. We bought this house when we lived out of state, sight unseen. Oh, my parents who live nearby had seen it, took pictures, and the price seemed right. But it’s small. At least for us, small. 1400 square feet. Our previous home was 2600 square feet, and we have about 4,000 square feet of STUFF.
We have STUFF in the closets, STUFF in the garage, STUFF all over the back patio. We can’t enjoy our backyard, too much STUFF. I know my hubs is as frustrated as I am and we are stuck as to where to even start.
My sis had a great idea. Rent a storage place temporarily. Go through the stuff and weed out what we can give away and the rest put in storage for a while. Get it out of the house. Because I honestly don’t know how much longer I can deal with it.
Now, that that is settled in my mind anyway, I need to learn to LOVE this house. Make it a home. I would rather be somewhere else, I have never gotten over selling our favorite home SEVEN years ago. It’s time to let it go, I know..It’s been gone longer than we lived there at this point, but we should never have sold that home. At the time it seemed like the right thing to do, but in retrospect probably the only thing that we regret the most in our lives. I’m trying, I really am, but it brings me to tears still when I think about it. How do I get over this? I can’t make this a home until I release that one.
This is a rambly post, sorry. Here is my goal for our home this year. Paint the interior. Sorry, but I can’t stand white walls and this place is full of them. And get rid of the STUFF. I think once those things are taken care of, I can move on. We are here for the duration, will not be moving so it really is in our best interest to make this our HOME.
What do you think and any suggestions for me??
Here are a few pictures:
Now the ugly
So..any ideas?
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