Project- all at one or a little at all?

[mrsfurmom]

Just wondering how you order your projects... If you start on a master bath, do you finish the whole master bath before moving on? Or do you do a little work on each as you go?

This weekend we painted our master bath... It's basic builder grade stuff, so I want to take a chance to spruce it up a bit. Other plans include:

Framing our mirror (huge sheets of glass are boring)
Changing the overhead fixture (it's a dark little frosted glass ball... yuck)
Install Crown Moulding
Put in a mosiac tile trim around the bathtub surround for the pretty...
Put casing around the windown (DH decided he doesn't like the blind)
Make a roman shade for the same window
Build a storage cabinet (we have no linen closet)
Install a shelf with hooks above the bathtub to put up pretties/hang towels

I have a list as long as my arm for the rest of the house and can't decide if I just move on to the next or finish this one room first?

[sarahbear]

We do bits and pieces of projects based on need. For example, we redid the entire kitchen (moved walls, plumbing, new everything!) but we were also doing other major changes in the house. So the backsplash got put off for about a year. We're finally in the process of doing it now.

I don't think anything is wrong with doing projects based on priority vs. completing an entire room at a time.

Sometimes it's better to do one thing, re-evaluate for awhile, and then go back to another part of the project later.

[sarahbear]

Oh, and I should add, that I agree that I don't want my house to be a construction zone. If something is totally ripped apart then we finish that project. But if you're talking about painting something, then changing out a mirror and then replacing a cabinet, I think all those things can be spaced apart, if needed.

[sratsey]

With the exception of paint, I tend to do one room at a time so that I can check a room of as completely done instead of every room needing something.

[midwest0712]

I like to do one thing at a time, rather than room/space at a time. So, for example, I am guessing you have more than one bathroom with builder grade fixtures. So I would do all the updates to the mirrors and lighting in all the bathrooms at once. Then maybe move on and do the updates that are individual to each bathroom and finish the master, then do the guest, etc.

In my own house, some examples of this would be that I painted all of our bathroom vanities at the same time and replaced the mirrors. Currently, I am working on painting all upstairs trim, then will do downstairs. It would be kind of annoying to paint trim one room at a time because it wouldn't look cohesive and I already have the supplies out anyway, so may as well do it all.