How to Tackle Unfinished Home Improvement Projects Once and For All

After settling on a bathroom paint color, organizing your mood board, and creating your design’s wish list, you thought you’d also take a look at that beautiful velvet sofa you’ve been eyeing for the living room. Four months later, both rooms are in the same condition, and you wonder how time passed by so quickly without making much progress. Don’t worry, we’ve all been there before. Homes all over the world with unfinished home improvement projects are crying out for someone’s attention.

I personally can’t count how many home decor and design projects I have begun over a lifetime only to be left unfinished, until a new cycle began prompted by a relocation or move to a new place. Unfinished home improvement projects have a way of staring at you each time you walk into a space. The glare is silent, but full of judgement.

Since the new year began, I’ve been working towards completing unfinished home improvements, and have received great joy in checking each task off my list. However, I couldn’t do this without a little determination, and a plan. I know all too well, the struggle to completion of any project, especially when life gets in the way.

There are a few steps you’ll need to follow in order to get there. Let’s jump right into it and learn How to Tackle Unfinished Home Improvement Projects Once and For All.

1. Reignite your Interior Motivation

Rekindle that fire that once made you look forward to your project with excitement. Raid the magazine section of your local grocery store, and pick up the latest home design magazines that speak to your style. Flip through the pages and take note of the colors and styles that you like.

Then watch HGTV and the DIY Network for inspiration to get your hands dirty. Any shows that walk you through the before and after process are what you should look for. Inspiration is the goal here. After viewing others’ designs and handiwork, you will be inspired to create and get to work!

2. Rate your Project’s Remaining Desirability

Sometimes time away from an unfinished home improvement is good. It gives us time to explore and discover if the design we initially pursued is what we truly want. After you’ve had a chance to rekindle that creative flame, determine if your original project still fits within your interior desires.

You’d be surprised how quickly design preferences can evolve and change. Sometimes what you want is not practical for your needs. If design changes are necessary to your overall project, make them and stick to them. If they are not, consider yourself lucky!

3. Get Each Project on Your Calendar

This is is one of the most important steps. Schedule, schedule, schedule. Determine each project’s time commitment, then commit it to your schedule. You could also choose to complete each project in order of importance. If you have a big dinner party coming up, you may want to place the dining room project at the top of your list, and work all of your other scheduled events around this.

Either way, commit to each project officially by entering them on your calendar. This way, when you receive yet another party invitation (because you’re such a popular woman around town), you can politely decline due to a prior commitment.

4. Determine a Budget

Next, you will determine a budget for each project. You can also choose to determine the overall budget for all of your projects combined, and work down from there. If you are completing one or two projects per month, it may be easier to commit to a particular amount per month that will be set aside for your unfinished home improvements. There are a few ways to do this. Be sure to pick one, and stick to it.

5. Finalize your Plan

As your final step, put your plan in stone. Developing a physical blueprint, further solidifies your plan, and to some extent acts as a contract with yourself. When you begin to veer off track, refer back to your plan and move forward.

In my hopes to ease your planning process, I’ve created a plan for you that further simplifies your home improvement planning process. I bring you the Home Improvement Project Fulfillment Plan. And guess what? It’s fillable!

Click here to gain free access to the complete plan!

I believe anyone with a plan is light years ahead of completing a large task than one without a plan. Sometimes projects just need to be broken down into small comprehensive tasks. This fillable plan will help you to prioritize each project by room, determine which to complete on your own or purchase, break down the costs, and determine realistic deadlines for fulfillment. I hope you find it helpful just as I did, and that your home becomes the awesome space you intended it to be!

Click here for your free Home Design Completion plan!