Home Goals for 2021 and a Free Printable

I’m a list person. Are you? If I write it down it will happen. If not, not so much… Today I’m sharing my Home Goals for 2021 and a free printable for you, too!

Do you guys make lists? I make lists for the grocery store. I make “to do” lists every morning. If it’s not on the list it doesn’t get done or doesn’t get bought (if it’s a grocery list).

Lists keep me motivated and accountable.

In fact, I even put things on the “to do” list that I’ve already done so I can have the satisfaction about crossing them off. Please someone say they do this, too!!!!

Okay, ready for our Home Goals for 2021!

Home Goals for 2021

Our bedroom makeover.

Here’s a look at the inspiration.

We swapped around our bedrooms in the summer so the boys could have their own bedrooms. Since October we’ve been doing over their old room into a calm and coastal bedroom. Lots of neutrals and textures from shells, hide rugs, sea grasses etc. It took a long time for our bed to arrive but it just did! Hooray. Now I’m deciding on bedside tables and a cozy arm chair. I’m praying the linen curtains I want from Ikea come in soon. They’ve been out of stock for months…

You can see the lighting here and our new bed here.

Teen Bedroom Makeover.

We’re also currently working on our son’s new bedroom makeover. He’s in what used to my office / guest bedroom. This will be the third makeover for this space. You can see it as a guest room here and as a multipurpose room here. We’ve tried several room layouts and have now found one that works.

One wall is wallpapered in this gorgeous wallpaper and we spent a few days during Christmas vacation painting the other walls Simply White by Benjamin Moore.

Shared WFH Office Makeover

So that leaves our old bedroom which has become a shared work from home workspace for Luke and me. As many of you know we already put a lot of work into this room when we did our bedroom makeover. We installed wide plank flooring and did a faux board and batten treatment on the walls. Here’s how it looked as our bedroom and I’m excited to share how it works as a shared office:

Making the Sunroom a Four Season Room.

Many of you know how much I love the sunroom. It gets lovely natural light and has lovely views of our pool, which is great in the summer months. A few years ago we completely made over this space here. Two years ago, I painted the floors white and added the modern chairs. The only problem is it’s pretty cold out here in the winter because the room isn’t heated.

We plan to:

• insulate the room
• add a new support under the room
• add heat
• possibly repaint the floors (if needed)
• Add a new light fixture

Create a Wrap Around Patio

Our deck is falling apart. I’m not sure if you can tell from photos but it’s very splintery. I think it dates back to the 70s.

We’d like to take the deck off completely and create a wrap around patio or low deck that would go from behind the house to the side of the house. If you guys have low decks or patios I’d love your suggestions! You can get a better idea of layout here:

We plan to:

• Rip off the deck
• Create a patio (stone or paver patio) or low deck that wraps from the back to side of the sunroom.
• Add sliding doors on back and side of sunroom
• Add steps down to patio
• Add planters or container garden
• Add pergola on back of back patio to “hide” bulkhead. Thinking of adding a climbing rose or other plant that will bloom all summer. Let me know if you guys have any recommendations for that!

Add a “He” Shed

I joke about this because I used to have a she shed before we turned it into a pool house. Since we don’t have a garage Luke has a shed to store the lawnmower, snow blower etc. The shed is rotting from the ground up so we really need to do something with it. The shed is so bad I can’t even find a photo of it!

Plant a cutting garden

We love flowers in our house. Sometimes I feel sad about clipping our bushes as I love enjoying the flowers outside so I thought the boys and I would grow a cutting garden behind the pool house.

This area gets full day sun so will be great for a flower garden. You may remember we used to have a lean-to potting shed back there.

John experimented with growing sunflowers back there and they thrived.

I also experimented with zinnias:

We ordered a bunch of seeds from Floret Flower Farm and will get them going this spring ready to plant out in the yard when the time comes!

So excited about making that part of our yard pretty AND useful. So we can have even more flowers to arrange.

I have a few other BIG plans which I can’t wait to share really soon with you guys. Until then, I created a fun free printable list you can use to achieve all your goals in 2021. Feel free to share these on Instagram stories at tag me. Grab your printables here.