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The new year always brings a fresh start. I love the feeling of a blank calendar and a renewed since of will power. I don’t really make New Year’s Resolutions, but I do like the newness of January 1st to lay out some goals that I want to accomplish this year.

Personally, I want to be better, faster and physically stronger. That means working out more and being more conscious about what I am eating. It means making a plan for the next day and getting a good night’s sleep. It also means pushing myself outside of my comfort zone even more than I did in 2014.

But my home has its own unique set of goals, too. I like to think of them as Home Goals. In the first part of 2015, I’m going to refocus my efforts on updating my son’s bedroom. In its current state, it feels dark and uncomfortable. His bed is getting to be too small and the walls scream a little too Nick Jr. for a third grader. Last year, I put together a mood board for his room that both he and I love, but the longest project ever got in the way of me working on it.

Instead of just saying that my goal is to finish his room in the first six months of the year, I have made a list of some of the projects I want to tackle:…

Friends, the longest single project I have ever attempted has reached completion. My hand-painted and incredibly detailed Mary Blair inspired walls are finished. It may be a Small World, but it turned into a huge project.

I couldn’t be more thrilled with the way it turned out. However, I will admit that this single project almost broke me and my blog. I spent months (8 months, off and on) on these sections of wall. When I wasn’t feeling inspired, I simply ignored the project. The last few years, I’ve lived by a one-project-at-a-time policy, so I wouldn’t let myself start something new even when my brain needed a break. I’ve admittedly been down in the decorating dumps for a while, and I’m sorry that I haven’t had more to share with you. I really thought I was going through blogger fatigue, but now that this project is finished, I know that it was really just project fatigue.

But on the occasion when I was feeling inspired, I’d draw out the designs and paint them with my tiny, ¼” paint brushes. The section on the left – around the desk that my husband built (more on that later!) – wasn’t too bad to complete. I put a drop cloth down on the floor and just started painting.

But once I got to the other sections, I had a lot more prep-work to do. I was terrified that I’d drip or sling paint on my plain white walls or on my kitchen counters/cabinets. I’m a fairly messy painter, so that fear was real, y’all. I was starting to think I had bitten off more than I could chew.

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A Look at My 2015 Home Goals

It’s a Small World (and a Giant Project) After All