The Five Year Plan

I suppose I should memorialize the five-year plan here. It will likely change as soon as I hit the "publish" button. This is the framework from within which we'll diligently work.

Pre-Move-in (which is now looking to be February, a topic for another post)

• Electric overhaul
• Complete interior repaint
• Buy sofa for living room
• Wall paper entrance hallway
• New kitchen fan
• Service and clean the furnace
• Ikea dressers for upstairs (maybe some other cheap-o temporary closet fixes until we can do the remodel upstairs in about 3 years).
• Ply-wood door in staircase (2b explained l8r)

2010 Projects

• Bolt house to foundation
• Furnish and complete the first floor office
• Buy or make a coffee table for the living room
• Get proper venting to the water heater
• Waterproofer
• Furniture for main floor guest room
• Window coverings
• Fix doming floor in entryway
  
• Fix moldings throughout house
• New interior and exterior doors in certain locations
• Reinforce/lift and stabilize 2nd floor original extension

2011 Projects

• Kitchen/dining/outer room remodel (new appliances, move sink, change walls)
• Fix previously improperly installed windows in back of house
• New washer/drier
  

2012 Projects

• Hardwood floor in master bedroom
• Cathedral ceilings upstairs and expose collar ties
• Built-ins in knee walls upstairs as storage solution
• Furnish top floor bedrooms
• Remodel backyard/patio

2013 Project

• Top floor bath complete remodel

2014 Project

• Remodel all staircases