What's your latest project?

[Gonz]

The thread about the reel mower got me thinking, and it's spring and that time of year anyway.

So, What's your current or latest home project? Landscaping, remodeling, basement finish, whole new house?

I'll start: We bought our current house as sort of a temporary thing, while we wait to find out if my wife likes her new job, and if we're going to stay where we are. Then once we decide to stay, we've got some land here in town where we will build our "dream home". Well, she's having a hard time with the admin folks lately, and they're holding her back from being able to perform her job (ob/gyn), so we're putting off starting that new house until next spring or even spring of 07. And we decided we might as well make our current house nice enough to enjoy while we're here (without spending too much money), so we've decided to buy a spa (for outdoors), and so we'll be pouring a new exposed aggregate pad for the spa, with a walkway over to the current patio, and then a whole bunch more landscaping, such as bushes, shrubs, perennials and a couple trees.

Summer/spring projects are so much fun!

 

[Tenpin]

My summer project is to try to develop my eBay Consignments and Antiques business (Virtually, Anything!).
With the elimination of my position at work, I figure that this summer will be the ideal time to recheck and document my current inventory, spruce up my booths at the antique mall and show, redesign my website and do a little traveling (buying trips).
I'll probably go back to a real job in the fall.

Jim

 

[bfreebern]

Gonz.......sounds like me and the wife. We bought our house for our first house and also to live in under 5 years. We own 3 acres and will be saving money to build a house sometime soon. My projects this summer will be finding a reel mower, covering the patio, new landscaping in the front and back, adding a gold fish pond in the back. These are things I think I can get done now. The other projects will be to redo the counter-tops, kitchen cabinets, thinking about extending the privacy fence past the side garage door and adding a doggy door for the dogs. I'm sure others will come to mind, but the yard and landscaping will come first, according to the boss :laugh:

 

[cigardawg]

Changing the covered back porch into a four-seasons, smoking/poker room. Have to demolish the existing railings and flower boxes around the porch. Replace the band-board. Paint the ceiling and refinish the flooring. Carefully remove the cedar siding from the outside walls so it can be used on the outside of the remodeled room. Insulate under the porch. Frame in the walls, install the windows (5), sheath the walls and replace the cedar. Wire the room for a couple of circuits and install an outside flood light. Install a storm door. insulate the walls. Figure out what I am going to finish the walls with on the interior. Decorate. Play poker. Smoke.

This is going to be a great project.

 

[benjiev]

Ahhh nothing like buying an investment you can live in Currently remodeling my parents house new kitchen, kitchen cabinets, windows, bathrooms paint, floors and carpet. I love my parents but the sooner we get their house finished the faster I get to move them home :whistling:

And........if that isn't enough we are helpingn out a client fix up a townhouse that her daughter and friends trashed Once we have that done it goes on the market!

I hate contractors though and they are a necessary ingredient to the puzzle. Since I couldn't pound a nail straight if you bet me and put a $1,000,000 bucks on the table.

........... good reliable contractor could make loads of money.

 

[Shadow]

Getting rid of all the wall-to-wall carpeting and getting hardwood floors put in(if my loving wife can figure out what she wants!). Also putting ceramic tile floors in the kitchen, front entranceway and bathrooms.

 

[Drake]

i don't have any. i plan on partying with my college friends any time i'm not working.

 

[JimK]

Decorate. Play poker. Smoke.

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Sweet.

JK

 

[emodx]

Changing the covered back porch into a four-seasons, smoking/poker room. Have to demolish the existing railings and flower boxes around the porch. Replace the band-board. Paint the ceiling and refinish the flooring. Carefully remove the cedar siding from the outside walls so it can be used on the outside of the remodeled room. Insulate under the porch. Frame in the walls, install the windows (5), sheath the walls and replace the cedar. Wire the room for a couple of circuits and install an outside flood light. Install a storm door. insulate the walls. Figure out what I am going to finish the walls with on the interior. Decorate. Play poker. Smoke.

This is going to be a great project.

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Since everything is going to be torn apart. Might want to plan a phone line and speaker wire runs if you aren't going to have a stereo outside. Also an ethernet drop if you so chose to have connectivity. Just a thought prior to buttoning everything up.

Emo

 

[PSTAN]

I love my parents but the sooner we get their house finished the faster I get to move them home :whistling:

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I understand that. I can't wait for November or December to get here so I can get the Inlaws OUT. to their new house.

Currently I am not planning any projects.

 

[Swissy]

Hmmm... that would be whatever little miss home and remodeling tv show watcher wants done (a.k.a. my wife!)

So far EVERYTHING in our house has been re-done (and I'm NOT kidding...) with the exception of the downstairs bathroom... guess what the next project is! At least she knows the fishing season is here and is letting me do it between salmon runs...

 

[stevehawk]

We just put our home on the market yesterday and will be looking to buy another place right away. We've got 2800 sq. feet now and are looking to downsize to around 2000.

With the purchase, I'm sure there will be plenty of projects to keep me busy all summer. I just don't know what they are right now.

I'm also working on my third novel, so that's a project as well!

 

[emodx]

At least she knows the fishing season is here and is letting me do it between salmon runs...

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Mmmmm, salmon... Addy in profile... :whistling:

Emo

 

[knifeman]

I will be steadily working on making my knife show come together and be successful. July 29,30,31. If any of you Texas boys can make it to Austin it will be worth the trip. 100 tables of antique, new and handmade knives. There will also be plenty of cigar smoking on Friday and Saturday out by the pool.

 

[Swissy]

At least she knows the fishing season is here and is letting me do it between salmon runs... 

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Mmmmm, salmon... Addy in profile... :whistling:

Emo

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Guess what's cooking in the firehouse tonight?!?!?! three guesses, first two don't count!

once I fill the freezer(s) up, I'll have to send out some special purpose 'Alaskan' bombs!! And I go for the fabled 'Copper River Salmon' which are selling in Seattle right now for - get this- $29 a POUND! And I get to fill my freezers with it! Buwhahahahahahahaha!

God I love living up here...
y'all hang tight... I gots lotta trips planned for salmon, halibut and moose this year.

 

[NorCalCigarLover]

Mmmmmmm...... salmon

I've become quite realistic when it comes to "completing" projects in a realistic time frame these days so her is my short list of things I will complete before September ..... maybe.

1. I've been working on a built-in hutch for a few months now, about 8 ft. tall and 4 feet wide with raised panel doors on the bottom, a large drawer and glass doors on top. I'm about 70% complete with this project and should be able to wrap this one up.

2. A built in phone cabinet that's about 70% complete as well in almost the same room of the house.

3. I need to do something with my workshop that's only about 60% complete. Not finish it, since I'm not sure what I want to end up with yet, but I do need to run electrical, re-panel the outside, put up raingutters and paint it. I have to do this before next winter.

4. Last but not least, I need to build all of the interior door casings and hang them up, not finish them just yet but at least have them primed. The casings are my own design patterned after a 1920-1930's farmhouse style. These are built from bare stock lumber so there is a bit of milling involved.

Nice to put this down and actually see it in writing, thanks Gonz!

 

[emodx]

At least she knows the fishing season is here and is letting me do it between salmon runs...  

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Mmmmm, salmon... Addy in profile... :whistling:

Emo

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Guess what's cooking in the firehouse tonight?!?!?! three guesses, first two don't count!

once I fill the freezer(s) up, I'll have to send out some special purpose 'Alaskan' bombs!! And I go for the fabled 'Copper River Salmon' which are selling in Seattle right now for - get this- $29 a POUND! And I get to fill my freezers with it! Buwhahahahahahahaha!

God I love living up here...
y'all hang tight... I gots lotta trips planned for salmon, halibut and moose this year.

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I been halibut fishing before... Hooked one 150 pounds plus.

 

[loanshark]

Big summer project!!!!! Building a bar in the basement and installing a bathroom in the basement!!!! I just bought a new (well old it was built in 1919) house. It has a bitching finished basement. Put my grandfather’s pool table (circa 1925) down there and have a roulette and craps table. The only thing missing is my BAR!!!! I ordered the plans last Monday and got them yesterday. I already mounted my barest hummie in the wall behind and can’t wait to start work on the bar. I am building a keg box with tap. I am also installing a bathroom in the basement. I thought with the drinking going on in the new bar it was unfair to make everyone walk up stairs. I am getting a sani flow up flush toilet because the basement is below the sewer pipe. Should be fun!!!! I can not wait for it to be done. And I will give an open invite to any CPers that want to visit north Jersey and have a drink and stick. :thumbs:

 

[loanshark]

We just put our home on the market yesterday and will be looking to buy another place right away. We've got 2800 sq. feet now and are looking to downsize to around 2000.

With the purchase, I'm sure there will be plenty of projects to keep me busy all summer. I just don't know what they are right now.

I'm also working on my third novel, so that's a project as well!

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If you need a mortgage I can set you up with a great co. and a great loan officer.

 

[bfreebern]

Emo, you don't want Jim to bomb you! Move along, there is nothing good that Swissy sends (waves hand).