Have you guys not heard the man's club rule?
I thought everyone knew this (or maybe it was just made up by me and my friends)
Always leave a closet unfinished.
-Leave it unfinished for years.
-It will become the lightning rod for complaints.
-It will cause a fixation on getting that closet finished (thus not leaving the mind free to think up other improvements.
-As soon as you finish that closet, if there is nothing else, you will either be asked to start the renovations all over again, or move to a new home (or maybe its just you that will be asked to move out now that your no longer needed
...I never should have finished that fireplace