Summer Projects
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So when we bought our new house in October, we got an immediate start on the basement. I framed out my office, storage, bathroom and the hallway. I ran all the electric, plumbing and insulated and threw up drywall...then it was spring time.
And we started spending time on the deck. Unfortunately, the orientation of our house put the deck at a point where is gets direct sunlight from about 11 am until 9 pm at peak summer days. So we started shopping for a pergola. Unfortunately, all we could find were either prohibitively expensive or too small.
Instead, I said eff it and picked up some treated lumber and turned on my brain-i-cator and got to work.
And of course, what kind of deck doesn't have a fancy beer cooler to keep the guests thirst-free?
I also threw together an Adirondack style dual chair/table for the front porch...
The next project outside won't start until next spring when we do a couple of dirt berms on the back part of our lot with some dawn redwoods or eastern hemlocks to give some more privacy without doing a fence.
Then we will be doing a limestone flagstone slab patio with a fire pit and flower beds around it. We are also doing some sun shades around the patio using the same material I used for the awnings and curtains on the deck. I will also be doing a hammock/hammock stand.
But I will be continuing on the basement once things start to cool back off.
And we started spending time on the deck. Unfortunately, the orientation of our house put the deck at a point where is gets direct sunlight from about 11 am until 9 pm at peak summer days. So we started shopping for a pergola. Unfortunately, all we could find were either prohibitively expensive or too small.
Instead, I said eff it and picked up some treated lumber and turned on my brain-i-cator and got to work.
And of course, what kind of deck doesn't have a fancy beer cooler to keep the guests thirst-free?
I also threw together an Adirondack style dual chair/table for the front porch...
The next project outside won't start until next spring when we do a couple of dirt berms on the back part of our lot with some dawn redwoods or eastern hemlocks to give some more privacy without doing a fence.
Then we will be doing a limestone flagstone slab patio with a fire pit and flower beds around it. We are also doing some sun shades around the patio using the same material I used for the awnings and curtains on the deck. I will also be doing a hammock/hammock stand.
But I will be continuing on the basement once things start to cool back off.
"Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."
"Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
"Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
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Nice! I sure can appreciate backyard upgrades as we've been busy ourselves with them. Very nice job
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Great job! Love the coolersOh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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Nice!
When you coming my way to help me lol.....
I'd be happy to help you build your woodworking resume lol...."....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963) -
I also threw together an Adirondack style dual chair/table for the front porch...
Dammmmm Ryan, you 'throw together' some NICE stuff! Everything looks GREAT! -
Yep, looks sweet pal. I couldn't have those white lights around my deck, the bugs would eat you to the bone. Same with those floods on the porch. Fans work for me, bugs can't fly in the wind.HT SYSTEM-
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Yep, looks sweet pal. I couldn't have those white lights around my deck, the bugs would eat you to the bone. Same with those floods on the porch. Fans work for me, bugs can't fly in the wind.
The lights around the deck are low wattage bulbs that put out far less light than the glare indicates and are much cooler than even big Christmas bulbs. The spots on the front are LEDs which also doesn't really attract bugs (the heat is what attracts most insects).
Besides...don't you have some mob informant bodies to bury on the south side?
"Some people find it easier to be conceited rather than correct."
"Unwad those panties and have a good time man. We're all here to help each other, no matter how it might appear." DSkip
