The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Saul Steinberg
I’ve often told people, “We would rather rip out the carpet than vacuum it.” And it is totally true! With two creative types in the household, maintenance is a four-letter word!
My husband, Jim, began another project this weekend. He is very handy around the house, and together we have done huge amounts of remodeling over the years. We love to start a new project. But finishing it…?
It gets to about 95%…then…nothing. That last little bit is soooo hard for us to get motivated to do. It’s not fun and exciting anymore, so it’s on to something else!
So here it is. A record of the current unfinished projects:
# 1) The studio.
This was a wood shop (really, really rough!). Jim redid the inside, replaced rotted eaves and whatevers outside…etc, etc. (photos of all of this some other time). But, the inside of the doors have never been painted. It’s tough to tell from the photo because the sun was setting right in the window, but they are still gray primer with quite a lot of dirt and a little bit of “Great Stuff” foam stuck on them.
#2) New windows.
We replaced a number of the old windows and the patio door. The trim around the patio door has still not been replaced.
#3) The rocks!
This has been this summer’s project, and it’s almost killed us! Almost 600 square feet of river rock that has been there for over 20 years, with no border between rocks and grass. So it was more grass and weeds than rocks. We removed ALL of them, put down new weedblock (it did have plastic under it at least) put a border around them, washed the rock, and put it all back.We got to the end of the front area about a week ago, but we still need to put a little more border at the end and move some of the rocks to even it out near the end.
We didn’t get to the rocks on both sides of the driveway, another 120 feet (but only a couple of feet wide). That’s going to have to be next year.
So, this weekend Jim decided to start a NEW project! Replacing the cover over the patio in the back. It had the fiberglass cover on it that had some broken spots, a lot of the wood is rotted, etc.
Maybe I should document all the art projects that are not finished…or maybe not.
Compelled to Create 