Grey boxes: IKEA Kvarnvik.

Not the hot yoga thing, but the rest of it, I mean.You can tell that our perspectives on the issue are pretty much complete opposites.

I’m more concerned about keeping our home livable and comfortable while renovating and Chris is more concerned with making sure the project is absolutely perfect, no matter what.. No matter what side of the coin you’re on, I hope some of these tips gave you some things to think about if you’re about to undertake a big project like this one!.Happy renovating!It’s that time of year when we all want our homes to look amazing, but we don’t have much time for huge home projects, or the desire to spend huge amounts of extra money.So what can ya do?

Paint, of course.Paint is almost always the answer.

In fact, I’ll let you in on a little secret.

When 2014 started, I decided that this was going to be “the year of paint”.Sometimes I’ll focus for an hour on getting a whole bunch of little “blog work” things done that have been bugging me, but in one list of 10-minute tasks, I could do some quick trim-painting in whatever room we’re working on, some planning for whatever holiday is coming up, some online shopping, some regular cleaning tasks, and some organizing and decluttering, and some blog work too.

Having a little bit of everything in there really helps me feel like I’m making a little bit of visible progress on all of my goals every day and it keeps me from feeling bored.Speaking of which, on to the next tip!.

Setting a few goals for yourself and then challenging yourself to complete them really kind of is a little game in itself, but if you do things exactly the same way and in the same order every day, things get tedious.And then you get bored.