Project :: Carport

While I was waiting for my road to final get paved after 7 months, I decided to add a much needed carport to finish off the house. This is the final major project on the house. I am really happy with how it turned out and how much more value and useability it adds to the property.

The creeper is covered.

Few hours to dig the hole, half day to for forming.

Setting up the posts, made this carport higher then most just to get the camper under. I ended up being higher then the city wanted but they gave me the final anyway.

Setting up the trusses to chuck onto the beams.


Colour changer

Green is the colour,  stolen from my dads neighbour.  Some more fine tuning with plants , cleaning up the stairs etc and then the cycle is complete.

after

before


Changing the kitchen from old to new on a budget…

I have many pictures of the kitchen, process and final images.  I think we had the most fun trying to figure out how this kitchen would end up.  Well, the most fun was ripping the old one out but of course designing and figure out layout is good too.

old kitchen

old kitchen

We originally started with cabinets.  We found a good deal at the Home depot.  I believe it was under 3 for all the cabinets.  Another 50 bucks for handles.  I framed up the counter tops with about 30-40 bucks of lumber.  The material for the counter tops was a sacking mix  (concrete) for about 15 bucks a bag. (used about 5).  Another 40bucks for black colour and 30 for fiber that gets chucked in  the concrete when mixin.  Tile was about 500, and then add about 120 for the faucet, 150 for the sink, 100 for the hood, then boom.

Before we started drywall patching

Before we started drywall patching

Just finished the rough drywallin

Just finished the rough drywallin

Counter Tops framed

Counter Tops framed

Counter tops freshly placed

Counter tops freshly placed

Tile, with out the black grout

Tile, with out the black grout

faucet

faucet

Final product, Different angle

Final product, Different angle

Final Product

Final Product


Cheap new fireplace…and few cans of spraypaint

Update of the fireplace:

Had to do something about the old shitty brick fireplace.  I didn’t want to spend a lot of money and most of all,  time pissing around with it.  The general look of it wasn’t one that I hated but I  had issues with the color.  So basically for 18 bucks and an old newspaper, a piece of cardboard, and some painters tape.  The old shitty fireplace looks, well, better.


FirePlace Time

My old ugly fireplace is the last thing to get renoed in the main living room.  We added some cedar to the sides to match up with the rest of the room and now to take the ugly brick into something a little more modern.  He’s a before shot, with all the taping, and getting ready for paint.  1) make sure the thing is clean, 2) make sure its taped off 3) makes sure that you dont buy your paint at Home Depot. 4) i did and one of the cans was a dud.  Sweet!

I’ll at a final image once I have the glass and everything cleaned up…looks a lot better.

Sanding Floors

So having a 1950′s house has it good points, and one is having hardwood floors.  The last of the major things to get finished up on the big reno.  I have two rooms which have hardwood, master bedroom and living room.  The two rooms had a different type of hardwood which was odd but awesome at the same time.

Sanded til about 11:30pm and tomorrow I think I’ll just seal it up.  No staining.  I think away, I’ll sleep on it…

more motherfu**ing dust!!

more motherfu**ing dust!!


Getting things settled in…

Still need to get food and get this puppy filled up

Still need to get food and get this puppy filled up

Getting steps closer to getting the interior of the house finished.  I am also finding it weird that I have a kitchen and an almost done interior.  I have all my appliances hooked up and just had the electrical finished up today.  Still have the main bedroom to finish and some tile in the kitchen and then it will be time for the before and afters on the inside of the house.

Weekend projects

Spent last weekend helping out a friend rip out his dog savaged carpet.  He did the fun part of ripping out the carpet, then I came in and sanded the concrete floors.  Then we stained them and the next day, sealed and shined them up.  Nice little change and easy clean up.   Oh and woke up to more snow in the Saturday morning.