What home improvement work did you do today?

In the concept of less lawn to mow, I have embarked on a patch of thyme and other ground cover on the side yard. Rototilled the rest of the area and planted 36 more plants. The plants should have different flowering times, and most are drought tolerant. Veggies in the planter boxes are growing. We already harvested some lettuce.

 

Recently had my brother in law make some shelving, cabinets, benches, and hangup area for our kids upstairs. We built the house with the intention of using it as a kids playroom and now it's happening. The room is above our garage, so hopefully minimal noise for us. More going to happen down the road, but this will work for now.
Before:

After:

It'd already SOOO much quieter downstairs lol

 

We knew you could do it...

I am quietly "Supervising" my wife's tile work in the master bathroom...as I have

not stayed married 40+ years by "helping her"

 

Kinnikinnick is a great spreading ground cover that does well in the PNW. We tore out all of our main yard grass about 5 years ago and planted lots of native perennials and shrubs, then fill in the open space with more every year and lots of bark dust mulch every two years.

 

Man this is awesome.

 

building my dream 3 car garage. a mixture of diy and getting some help. time lapse from paint prep to finished product was 4 days. i can start parking on it monday. custom cabinets, overhead storage, stackwall and workshop in single garage come in two weeks. i'm waging a war on clutter this time.

 

Looks great, but it would not take me long till I spilt something on it!

 

thanks. it's epoxy. i was advised that the only things that will stain it is brake fluid and battery acid which i likely won't be handling. otherwise it's lifetime guaranteed. if i do spill i can hose down the garage, we'll see tho.

 

Yeah, them decks look really nice. I'm still organizing and dumping a bunch of stuff to do something similar.
Brake fluid also eats paint, so I would assume would damage epoxy floors.

 

Just set an appt to have a Quiet Cool house fan installed in a few weeks. Anyone need any box fans? lol

 

LOL, I'd take a few, but shipping will probably be as much as buying them.

 

FINALLY finished weeding the flower beds. Adding a last bit of mulch to get it thicker in some spots. Threw cardboard under a good chunk of it to help prevent weeds. Glad that's done!

 

My newest edition is finally flowering...

We had seen these as decorative trees but I wanted one to grow as a bush to match plantings out front...

Nursery obliged and here is our Chinese lantern with 1st bloom..

 

We have had a Quiet Cool fan for a few years. It works real good so long as the humidity stays low. When that happens we just turn on the A/C.

 

It usually cools off enough to open up in the evenings...not when its 100+ degrees out usually, so the a/c just stays on. Usually it will get down into the 60's in the evening and super nice to have some fresh air.

 

Over the last couple days.
Mr. George, how much you pay for the new guy?

ditch no worky.

now i'm not sure what to do with my hands, aside from crushing granite.

 

Thompson Water seal the benchtop and finished up vacuum lines and power. Other little things to add/improve as needed at some point.

 

At a quick glance, I thought you put googly eyes on the upper portion of the leg under the bench top, but they're just bolts lol

 

Removed the hose bibs I installed 7 years ago when we gutted the house and installed hot and cold hose bibs yesterday. My truck will appreciate this the winter.

 

I'm guessing the hot water line was there already? Heat on demand, or hot water tank?
I can't wait to have my shop built so I can hot/cold hose bibs. Bringing warm water from inside to wash kinda sucks.

 

When we built our house, I ran those for all the outdoor hose bibs. It’s so nice.

 

No, I had to run new hot water lines to them. It’s a single story house so all the water was ran in the crawl space. I put in a tankless hot water heater last year, it will be supplying the hot water.

 

It’s great for washing the dogs outside, washing cars, thawing out pet water dishes, all kinds of stuff

 

We knew that.

 

Beginnings of a fire pit area. Had to do something to contain the gravel that was there when we moved in.

 

We finally entered civilized society.

 

Pulled a sock out of the kids toilet at the school, pretty sure it was a balled up set…..