Are you looking for a little incentive to get started on some small projects around your house? How about a contest to light that fire under your tool belt? Did I just write that?

Anyway, the editors of Blueprint have teamed up with Apartment Therapy to bring you the January Jumpstart Project.

This is not a whole house renovation project contest, but a small project that you have been meaning to tackle. The sort of thing you constantly put off because it won’t take that long. And so you never set aside time to do it. Because it won’t take that long. And then you find yourself stuck in this never ending loop.

I have this at my house, but I call it the Christmas Holiday People Are Coming Over Freak-out Project. Last week while most (probably normal) people were busy baking, wassailing, and spiking the egg nog, I was repainting my mudroom. And then the bathroom.

The January Jumpstart Project has to be accomplished solely by you, I assume this means no professionals rather than being a statement about spousal involvement. It has to be small in scope, something you can do in a weekend. The deadline for completing your project is January 21.

The best part? Aside from having a project that is completed, is that there will be prizes.

I am trying to think of some small projects that I have and am drawing a blank. I mean, I have plenty of small projects it is just that none of them are worthy of an entry. Unless staining, sealing, and installing a new threshold between my kitchen and mudroom would count?

Yeah, I didn’t think so.  But I still have 23 days.

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