House Projects

[A//// Guy]

Yea mowers are pretty cheap in the scheme of things.. lol Good self propelled mower is a couple hundred bucks. And they usually run forever.

[turbotalon1g]

I bought a cheapo from sears 10 years ago now and rebuilt the plastic carbs and changed the oil twice, it runs like a champ. Pretty sure I paid like $120 for it :)

Aaron, weak! Man up and go fast, prove you are drag king!

I'll be going fast, but I'm no drag king.

Yea mowers are pretty cheap in the scheme of things.. lol Good self propelled mower is a couple hundred bucks. And they usually run forever.

yeah, I have a bit of yard, so I'm thinking a rider is in my future.

[A//// Guy]

Me too, its a good leg workout! haha

[turbotalon1g]

^Good point.

[Halon]

Spring time, so doing some more stuff in the yard to try and attract more wildlife. Mallard duck house was put out by the pond this weekend. A Wood Duck couple already scoping it out.

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[Halon]

Inside the house, I've been working on finishing up our wine cellar / storage room. It was one small area we left unfinished when we built the house, and basically just keep the deep freezer and beer fridge in there for now, but eventually will put up some wine shelves and other just misc shelves for overflow grocery storage.

Here's basically what it looked like. I threw up some 2x2 furring strips on the cement wall sides.
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Entry into the area, small dim wall sconce to give it a dungeon feel lol :)
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Went to Menards and got this Pine tongue/groove planking for half off. Thought this was a neater look for a room like this rather than just sheetrock. Also installed/wired up a handful of outlets since it only had 1 to begin with.
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Here is how it sits today. All that is left is to put some clear sealer on it (not staining). And I bought cork flooring that should arrive early May.
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The theatre room project is on hold. We found a little bit of water in there and we want to get that figured out before finishing the room. Don't want a mold issue.

[goodhart]

Wow that looks great! Def more of a 'cellar' look to it with that pine

[JET]

Yeah, great choice using the pine. Looks good!

[A//// Guy]

Looks great!

[Murlo26]

Love the pine, looking sharp sir.

After not having blinds in my house in my guest bedroom for 4 years I finally bought some cheap ones from Blinds.com.

The driving force is the fact that the window is eastward facing so the sun shines in bright and early. So anyone who ever used my guest bed woke up at dawn lol. So now the gf stays over with her 5 year old quite a bit so in an effort to let the human alarm clock sleep more I did this. Added benefit is allowing drunk friends more sleep.

It isn't pretty but it works and was cheap.

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The gap in the middle is a bit more than what I would like but I don't care to try and fix it as there isn't a whole lot I can do with these blinds as the hardware just has space in them. I could probably gain a half inch and cut it down but this works and keeps the sun out of your face.