The "To-Do Now" List

To Do now or To Do later? That is the question. 

I go to sleep at night with a million and a half ideas running through my head. A million and half tweaks and purchases and things to Google, all because of this house. I've never been the "go slow" type, but my BF and my bank account have the final say. So all of these projects I want to start are being sorted into To-Do Now or To-Do Later lists. 

1) Finishing the Office
After the weekend, I picked up a couple new prints at the Atlanta Arts Festival. That will bring my count to 9 prints to be framed and hung on for my office gallery wall. The office is dark grey and  in addition to the frames, we are waiting for black and white curtains that my "mother-in-law" has volunteered to make. 

Since we both share the office, it will be an even split down the middle: my glam prints to contrast with his anime swords. Quite the Match made in heaven, or Bento Cafe in Gainesville…

Office Gallery Wall Inspiration

I know there are many DIYs for these curtains online.

2) Finish Kitchen (still)

With everything that we've done to the kitchen, it's still not quite finished. To fix our lack of kitchen storage, we've picked out a table/cart from Ikea. When we eventually buy it, it will be our bar cart and cookbook shelf.

The Forhoja Kitchen Cart from Ikea.

Here's some other Kitchen/Bar cart inspiration:

Style Me Pretty

Apartment Therapy

We still need to buy a new kitchen rug, cabinet and drawer pulls, and some form of spice organization. 

3) Landscaping
October is a prime time for prepping our yard. It's too late in the year to be planting, but we've got our work cut out for us as far as winterizing. The turf builder is going down this Sunday, thanks to the seed spreader our friend is giving us. Troy will also be getting rid of the monster patch of ivy that is our side yard. This will give me the time to rake up all the leftover pine straw in the three front flower beds, and replace it with mulch. 

Next month, we are tackling the back and side yards: planting grass seed, trimming low-hanging limbs, and possibly having a very big maple taken down. If we can get the grass to sprout by the spring, we will build in raised flower/vegetable beds. 

We will also be tilling, since there seem to be a lot of dead things on the property. We are very much still novices at landscaping, so any advice would be very welcome. What can we do now, and what can be left for Spring?

Since the cat doesn't like indoor plants, kitchen herbs will go in this on the back deck.