Here we are a couple of days into a new year and my house is all a mess right now. We have been in this home for almost 18 years and it needs a refresh. I have spent time over the last couple of weeks moving furniture, taking down our Christmas decorations, and removing some really old wallpaper. Once we have texturing done on a couple of walls, I will be ready to repaint most of the walls in our home.

My husband and I were talking about some home projects the other day and I was telling him my reasoning why the dishes have always been in the lower cabinet.

When we first moved into this home, I wanted the dishes in the lower cabinet so the kids could help with unloading the dishwasher. As the kids got older, we just kept the dishes in the lower cabinet. When our daughter got married last summer, I removed some of the dishes and silverware and moved those to another area in our home, but kept these dishes in the same spot.

As we have been spending time talking about home projects, I realized how much wasted space there is in this spot. And my husband never realized my reasoning behind why the dishes were in the lower cabinet in the first place! He thought that everyone placed their dishes in lower cabinets!

So it is definitely time to change things up!

Ideally, I would love to move the baking supplies to this lower cabinet, but I would hate to have to pull things out from the front in order to get to things in the back. So I need to start hunting for a solution before I make this change.

Are you making any changes this year? If so, what changes are you making? Are you someone who is pretty adaptable to change? Or are you pretty resistant to change?

To end this post, I will leave you all with a photo of what our living room looked like last week after the wallpaper was removed and before the Christmas tree came down. The house repainting is going to be a big project, but the timing is good with all the rain we are receiving right now in California.