Alright, y’all. I’m back to working in the studio. I’ll be honest. I’m having a very hard time concentrating on getting that room finished. It’s just how my brain works. When I get a room to the point where it’s about 90% finished, and I can completely envision how the finished room will look in my mind because there are no other decisions to be made, and no other variables in question, I find myself ready to move on to something else. It happens every single time, almost without exception. It’s that mysterious 90% completion mark. I hit that mark, feel satisfied that my vision is going to work out, lost interest in finishing it, and find other things to capture my interest.
And right now, with people working in my house and taking down walls, taking out flooring and subfloor, etc., it’s such a temptation for me to want to be where the action is. Even if I’m not doing the work myself, I love watching construction (or demolition, in this case) take place. Even right now, as I sit at my desk in the studio writing this post, I’m hearing the sound of a saw at the other end of the house, and I want nothing more than to go in and see what’s being done. When it comes to the sound of tools being used in my house, I’m like a moth to a flame.
I want to focus on things like obsessing about my soon-to-be-built workshop, or watching the people work on our future bedroom, and planning and designing our bedroom, or obsessing about my future closet, or gathering inspiration for our new kitchen, or deciding how I want our future dining room to look. And then yesterday, someone left a comment on an older post urging me to find another place for our exercise area other than my big future closet. So that sent me off on another (very welcome) tangent as I tried to figure out how to make that work. (I didn’t, but I’m open to suggestions). But what I’m having a hard time doing is getting excited about that last 10% in my studio.
So yesterday, I made myself peel away from all of that other stuff and try to get refocused on studio. I mean, I have so few things left on my list, and I could get it done very quickly if I’d just have a little bit of self-discipline and focus on getting it finished. So I was determined to make progress. Any progress. I decided to focus on trim.
For months, the side door of the studio was covered up. I had one of the rolling shelves there, and behind it was the second door that I had purchased for our bathroom when we were going to add on a bedroom. I have no idea what I’m going to do with that door now. But with those things sitting in front of the door for so long, I almost forgot that there was even a door there!
Even after I got the storage closet finished, this stuff sat in front of the door for a bit longer.
So I finally got all of that stuff put away and finished installing the trim. The side of the cabinet hasn’t had trim on it until now because the baseboard against the wall had to be installed before the cabinet trim could be attached. So now all of that is installed. It all still needs to be filled, sanded, caulked, and painted.
This piece had to be cut to fit around the cabinet. That was easy to do with a jigsaw.
And here’s what the whole area looks like now that it’s trimmed out. Finally, after seven years of this room being “in progress”, the side door finally has trim.
I didn’t take step-by-step pictures of how I trim out my windows and doors because I’ve already written a pretty detailed post about that. This trim is so easy to do (no miter cuts!), and it really elevates the look of doors and windows. It’s how I’ve trimmed out every single window, door, and cased opening in our house.
I’m going to do my best to stay focused this weekend so that I can get this area finished (including painting the door), get the trim finished on the opposite wall, and hopefully even get all of my wiring finished (I still have six outlets that need to be installed).
If I can stay focused and get those things done, that will leave me with reupholstering the desk chair, finishing up with organizing the cabinets and drawers, and then cleaning up and finishing up the little things like installing switch plates. Ugh. The last 10% is just the worst!
Addicted 2 Decorating is where I share my DIY and decorating journey as I remodel and decorate the 1948 fixer upper that my husband, Matt, and I bought in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do physical work, so I do the majority of the work on the house by myself. You can learn more about me here.