House Projects

[Halon]

Ha, ya start a house forum! Once it's all done, it's so nice to be able to say you did it all yourself. Good luck with it Allan, and let us know if you ever need help with anything.

[AJ]

Oh I'm sure we'd need help with everything. ;) Got some good advice today about renting a lift for the drywall for the ceiling downstairs so we will be doing that.

Seems like I am shooting for too much to get done that first weekend, but who knows. lol

[AJ]

Well I will start putting some of our goodies up in here now. The place is coming along very awesome like.

This post is all about taking an open bedroom downstairs and turning it into a full scale bedroom with big walk in closet and adding new outlets.

This is what the room looked like when we bought it:

http://thedahlens.com/gallery/Basement-Bedroom/IMG_0361

This is close to what it looks like now (outlets are already wired in now, pics of that coming soon).

http://thedahlens.com/gallery/Basement-Bedroom/IMG_0441

Here is the entire album of pics on this room currently:

http://thedahlens.com/gallery/Basement-Bedroom?page=1

And this is just the changes to one room in a matter of 48 hours for the most part. I'm stoked to be able to do some of the shit myself, and having friends (and even neighbors) help with other stuff. Chris has been a HUGE part of this process. And we've had help with all sort of misc work from Anna, Nash, Mark, Brian, Julie, and others. It's been a process and we can't wait to have our first BBQ.

[Halon]

Sweet man. I just paid off my Home Depot card a couple days ago from all the crap I bought for my room. Next time that I'm going to be home for a decent amount of time, my entry way is next on the list! Let me know if you need help with anything!

[polishmafia]

holy crap the downstairs room is coming along nicely!

[Enes]

while you have all the stuff off run cat5e everywhere, at least 1 line to each room.

[A//// Guy]

Nice work so far!! That wood paneling was horrid.. lol

btw if you want to save some energy costs, insolate those cement walls with these styrofoam panels you can buy at nards. Make sure to pain the cement with that anti-moisture paint though, so you dont get any water issues behind.

[AJ]

I've got a box of 1000ft of Cat5e cableready to run to both rooms downstairs.

And we are isulating the walls with foam and also the ceiling.

[Jana]

For those who were here Friday night to see the house, you'll be happy to hear I was able to get all the painting done. I couldn't have done it without the help of my Mom, and Anna was over for quite a while to helping paint & peel all the ugly borders off the bedroom walls.

We'll hopefully have more pictures up in the next couple of days. :D

[JET]

Looking good guys!