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Behind the Scenes at a DIYer’s Home

April 30, 2015 By Karen Cooper 2 Comments

If you’ve been following along on Instagram or Facebook, you know I’ve been working on refreshing my laundry room. Here’s the sneak peek – almost done!

sneak peek of laundry room - Dogs Don't Eat Pizza

Of course, what you don’t see is what’s on the other side of the camera.

the mess of DIYing - Dogs Don't Eat PizzaThis is the other side of the kitchen, across from the laundry room. You can see I’ve spackled some holes; I’ve started painting the trim; the stepladder is out, as are dishes and other stuff.

My daughter asked me yesterday when I was going to clean up the dining room, which was holding all the laundry room re-do stuff:

what the dining room looks like during laundry room re-do - Dogs Don't Eat Pizza

I said that it would be all cleaned up when I finished the laundry room. She said, “That’s ok, Mom, our house is always a mess. It’s because you’re a DIYer.”

Sigh.

To some extent, she’s right. I’m usually doing some project, which means that supplies and mess are out. I am always considering better ways to organize, rearrange, or paint a room. And, with that, comes a mess.

I just didn’t realize she thought we were always living in a mess.

Any home is going to have some degree of mess. We can’t have clean, pristine homes all the time. In fact, my daughter is one of the messiest people I know, ironically enough.

But I’m going to try to be better about containing and cleaning up my mess when I DIY. To that end, I’m setting some goals:

  • Keep the mess contained during the project (i.e., try to only mess up one room at a time!).
  • Clean up right after the project is done.
  • Reorganize the basement to create more storage for project materials there.
  • Do one project at a time.

Hopefully then my family won’t feel like they’re constantly living in a work zone.

What about you? Do you create a mess when doing home projects? How do you stay neat and organized? Share in the comments!

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About Karen Cooper

Hi! I'm Karen. I call myself a “recovering lawyer” - I traded in my power suits for power tools and a life of DIY adventures. Join me for DIY, home decorating, repurposing and upcycling, and organizing projects and tips as I transform a 1929 Tudor bungalow into our home. I believe in merging old and new to make a house a home.

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Comments

  1. Cathy B. says

    April 30, 2015 at 1:50 pm

    “When are you putting the toilet back in?” That’s what I’ve been hearing. We are in the middle of “refreshing” the guest bathroom. It’s in the hall and it’s the one our teenagers use. (The only other bathroom is our master bath.) The toilet was pulled so the old tile could be removed. We are waiting for a friend to have the time to help with the new tile since we’ve never done it before.

    Meanwhile, since the 80s wallpaper wouldn’t come off, I’m “texturizing” over it with drywall compound before I paint. Oh, and we all have to use the hall bath shower since our master bath shower leaks. The kids’ clothes hamper has been relocated to our room for now but they still leave their clothes on the floor where it used to be….

    We have other little unfinished projects and the accompanying mess. I need to have the same goals!

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    • Karen Cooper says

      April 30, 2015 at 10:09 pm

      I totally get that, Cathy! It’s amazing how many moving parts there are to a project and it’s hard to deal with the fact that it can’t all get done immediately. It sounds like you are making it work…although the clothes on the floor would drive me batty! 😉

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