make my house a home

The New List:

Gross Pink Bathroom

• thoroughly wash the cigarette tar off the walls
• de-stink the carpet
• thoroughly scrub tile, toilet, counters, and tub/shower
• paint it!
• buy rugs, shower curtain, vanity chair, and misc. decor
• replace all light bulbs

Master Bathroom

• thoroughly was cigarette tar off walls and ceiling
  (except it’s coming back through…why won’t it go away?!)
• scrub shower
• re-paint?
• Decorate
• buy cute matching towels?
• buy a small table for make-up, etc.
• get toilet fixed

I’m attacking the easiest (and the most hideous) first, which are both bathrooms. Here’s the To do’s:

• thoroughly wash the cigarette tar off the walls
• de-stink the carpet
• thoroughly scrub tile, toilet, counters, and tub/shower
• paint it!
• buy rugs, shower curtain, vanity chair, and misc. decor
• replace all light bulbs

• thoroughly wash cigarette tar off walls and ceiling
• scrub shower
• re-paint?
• Decorate
• buy cute matching towels?
• buy a small table for make-up, etc.
• get toilet fixed

Considering our minimal income and our schedules, I can’t completely overhaul the house. I think I could really love it here, it’s only that the people who lived here before us smoked and painted crappy 80’s cocaine art, so everything is black and white and gray with track lighting and covered with a thin tarrish film. The carpet kind of really sucks, but that’s really the only thing that would cost too much for us to fix…and I’m sure at some point we can afford to get them thoroughly cleaned, which would improve the smell in here by 150%. There’s just an overall feeling of coldness here that doesn’t match the warm color schemes that we have with our furniture and decorations. This’ll be a big project, for sure, and I hope to slowly begin to chip away at it after we finish up with all our holiday/political parties.