10 Things in My House That Need to Be Fixed

My first thought upon reading this topic was, "This should be really easy to write", then I thought "Only ten?". We live in Vancouver, BC, a city with some of the highest priced real estate in the country, or the continent, really. I think a few American cities like New York City & San Francisco are probably more expensive, but nothing else in Canada is pricier than good ol' YVR. So that we could afford to buy a home in the area we wanted, we had to get a fixer-upper. & though we've done some fixing up, we're nowhere near finished this huge project. So, without further ado, here are ten things that need fixing in our home:

1. Our entire kitchen. & by fixing, I mean gutting to the studs & rebuilding completely. 
2. Our bedroom curtains. I've never gotten around to hemming them, so they're too long. The hooks they hang from don't stay attached to the track that they slide on (yup--rather than a rod, we have those awful noisy track thingies behind valances that seemed so popular in the 50s-70s.)
3. All the tile floors: the entryway at the front door, the kitchen floor, the hall & bathroom all feature ugly, white tiles with cracks & a missing piece or two.
4. The walls. We need to paint most of the house--we've only done the bedrooms & bathroom. 
5. The living room floor. two thirds of it is decent quality oak narrow plank flooring with inlay around the outside. The other third was done later, I guess, & badly. Neither part is properly finished & the whole thing is a dingy light tan that I don't really like.
6. The ceilings in the living room & kitchen. The whole house has that unfortunate spray-on textured stuff, but in these two rooms it's particularly scarred from moved electrical outlets, odd seams & removed walls.
7. The front door. Not only is the paint peeling, but the lock is stiff too. 
8. The exterior paint job. I kind of like the colours of my house--it's olive green with white trim & a bright red door--but it hasn't been painted in a long, long time. Our eaves are peeling & there are uneven areas in the green as well as some patches at the back of the house since we redid the deck last summer.
9. The bathroom tap is loose. I installed a new one a while ago, but never quite got the tap cranked down tight enough, for fear of cracking the ceramic sink. It works well & doesn't leak, but moves around in a way that it shouldn't.
10. Our entire bath/shower area. The tub is probably original to the house & has some chunks of enamel missing. The walls are tiled with these hideous white tiles that have fake pink marbling & if that wasn't bad enough, I think these tiles are slapped on over top of the old ones.

There you have it. Some--seriously, there are a lot more--of the things we need to do with our house. Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever get around to all of it, particularly the big things like the kitchen. With two little children, I can't really imagine how going kitchenless & having a construction crew in the house for six or more weeks would work very well.

What about you? What do you need to fix in your home? {lease tell me it's not just us & you've got a laundry list of fix-it to dos too... Let me know in a comment below!

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