What Have You Done To Your House Today?

[Diehonda]

The scale is off because you have small lillies there. Anything even mid size will be pretty overwhelming. Also dependent on sun/shade ratio.

Buddleia 'Nanho Purple' or other Buddleja (Butterfly Bush)

Clethra 'Ruby Spice' (rabbits love these)

dwarf korean spice viburnum

dwarf Fothergilla

Hydrangea 'Pink Diamond'

Spirea 'snowmound' plant (needs to be trimmed)

Feather Reed Grass 'Brachytricha'


a japanese maple will look nice at the 90 degree corner too.

Full sun for most of the day. The lillies are translpants, but yeah, they aren't going to get much taller. I don't want anything too wide or tall because the kids play out front and I'd like to keep an eye on them. We did plant a corkscrew willow to the left of the house. It is doing really well. Would like to get a couple flowering trees for the front but she keeps pointing out trees with pink flowers. ugh

hmm.. this wasn't done TODAY but within the last few weeks.. stripped and refinished my decks.

Before pic on the right, after pic on the left. After pic is a crappy cell phone pic though.

Looks good. I need to clean and recoat mine before the weather breaks.

 

[JDM-P5]

My wife is going to Turkey for 5 months I'll do my 6 month bid in Dubai and a month in Turkey for vacation, then back here again to try and find a house...she's gonna offset her trip so we'll be in Turkey together...it's World Cup time again next year, so I'm staying in the region that allows me to watch the most games in a day without losing any sleep.

 

[CTt3P5]

Tore down the playhouse that was dryrotting in the backyard. The PO built it in 1995 for his daughter.

Pic taken when we moved into the house (2006)

Tamz getting ready for another swing

Tamz taking a break

Demo is complete

The wood floor that you see in the front will be cut up with a chainsaw another day. The wood floor that Tamz is standing on is still in good condition so we are going to powerwash it and then paint/treat it and use it as a base for our swing which is currenly in the shed.

We plan on putting some rock around the entire base and maybe some whiskey barrels on the front corners to be used as planters.

 

[Foolish]

Big time house project weekend! My parents and my in-laws have come to help us finish the rest of the projects we didn't take on when we moved in.

Yesterday (Friday): Hung one wall of insulation, re-framed and drywalled a soffit in the basement ceiling, then hung two more walls of drywall in the back room of the basement. Upstairs my wife and our moms prepped and primed the kitchen, bathroom and front hallway for painting.

Today (Saturday): So much painting. Primed and painted the staircase (high ceiling), primed and painted the upstairs hallway, finished painting the kitchen, front hall and bathroom. Started around 10:00AM, finished around 11:00PM

Tomorrow (Sunday): touch-up and trim painting, plus painting the top-most corners of the stairway. I'll spend most of my day hanging more drywall in the basement.


I can't wait to get all this done. The room we're building out downstairs is going to be my bike room, so the sooner I can get the walls hung and painted, the sooner I can build a two-level bike rack and start storing 7 of our 10 bikes down there and get them out of the garage!

For now though, I'm exhausted, and going to bed.

 

[iracemine]

almost finished.

need to fininsh the back of the bar with some 1/2" oak and then hang my cabinet doors, Hang more maritime themed stuff on the walls, and still in need of port and starboard lamps to hang behind the bar. Also you can see in the one pic I want a BIG bar/beer mirorr by the dart board on that plain as heck wall. But for the most part I am done this season even before it started with the purchase of bar stools and table, they came close to what I spent on the whole bar (yupnope)

 

[iracemine]

another update was that FINALLY the village put in a tree in the yard. Now the drunks have a tree between them and my kitchen.

never live on the outside of a curved street (no Joke)

 

[JDM-P5]

The wife & I packed up almost everything. Only the kitchen left and of course the tv home theater and xbox.
I can't start moving the stuff into storage until 1dec. They are even providing me with a moving truck to move everything. Sucks to move...but with my upcoming raise 1jan and being deployed to Dubai and getting paid tax free for 6 months...its worth the move in storage as I'll get to pocket the rent money. Wife is heading back to Turkey while I'm gone. Sucks we just moved in this year and they finished the club house and pool right behind our house....but its not MY house and you can beat $4xK for 6months of "work".

Fwiw $1917 for rent is not worth paying for something neither the wife nor I will be in.
That alone is almost $12k saved in pocket. Wife will be with family and will have a monthly allowance deposited into her account but she won't pay rent since she's gonna be at her Moms.

 

[Foolish]

s***, Phil, I didn't know you were leaving again! You just got here!

 

[evilmonkeyMSP]

Moving to our new house tomorrow.

 

[tunersteve]

Although it's still the parents house (still looking), I finished putting up the Christmas lights around the house.

I tend to help out with a lot of the projects, and I wish I had more pictures of some of the things we've done throughout the house.

This winter, we're going to re-do the master bedroom, and the upstairs hallway and re-trim it out. We're also going to touch up the game room in the basement, since it's showing some wear right now and needs a few things fixed.

In the meantime, I'm still looking for a place to get, but I want to make sure my job situation is all set before jumping into a mortgage.

 

[Diehonda]

Moving to our new house tomorrow.

I would like to take a moment of silence for the toilets at the new house. They do not know what is in store for them.

(friday)

(toilet)




Congrats guys! I hope you have a magazine rack and a fan directly over the toilet.

 

[JDM-P5]

s***, Phil, I didn't know you were leaving again! You just got here!

Just for 6 months...
(bolt)

 

[Foolish]

Just for 6 months...
(bolt)

Then where?

 

[evilmonkeyMSP]

lol yep, not only does the toilet have a vent fan but its also got its own closed in room from the rest of the master.

I would like to take a moment of silence for the toilets at the new house. They do not know what is in store for them.

(friday)

(toilet)




Congrats guys! I hope you have a magazine rack and a fan directly over the toilet.

 

[EvilJen]

lol yep, not only does the toilet have a vent fan but its also got its own closed in room from the rest of the master.

Yet that still doesn't stop you from farting all over me in the kitchen while I'm trying to make my coffee.

(headshake I just can't escape your smell, can I? (puke)

 

[evilmonkeyMSP]

nevar!

 

[JDM-P5]

Then where?

Back here.

 

[Diehonda]

lol yep, not only does the toilet have a vent fan but its also got its own closed in room from the rest of the master.

Congrats! I look forward to a shitter room. You can put handicapped bars on the walls at different heights and angles so you can get the best leverage.

 

[xsists]

Well I just stumbled on this thread thanks to Santos. I bought my first house back on Nov 25th and I have been working on it every weekend/anytime I get a chance. I am planning on moving in hopefully this weekend after xmas.

Anyways, I have a ton of pics to share..

I'll start with the outside.

Front

Side (Main entrance)

Backyard

Garage

Here are some of the projects I have completed over the past couple weeks.

Kitchen (before, notice carpet on the floor)

Ripped out the carpet and the tile underneath

After the new flooring was put in

Here it is with the new appliances in

Living room (before)

Just after painting

The house had that old orange shag throughout. Here are some pics of the living room and hallway after I ripped it out.

The hardwood may have looked good in pictures but it was really bad overall. Had gaps everywhere and I did not want to fix it so I bought carpet. The carpet was installed this morning and here are some pics of it.

Dining room (before)

After paint and carpet removal

After new floor, trim and carpet was installed

Here is a quick picture of the 3rd bedroom (or office) before I laid the new flooring

And after the new flooring

I have also recently put in a brand new furnace since the one that was originally in the house blew up two weeks after I bought it. I could have replaced the furnace for a bunch of money in parts but for a couple hundred more I opted to buy a new and more efficient furnace with a 10 year parts/labor warranty on it.

I'll continue to update this thread as I do more with the house.

 

[iracemine]

man I loved the old hardwood floors!

Nick and I will be installing hardwood floors in the fist floor for us. I will most deffintly be putting up picks because she wants us to do a hearing bone pattern in the study and diagnal in the main room. I know now I might be living in the dog house untill its over. (dark)