What home improvement work did you do today?

Went to Home Depot for a raised flower bed. Got this galvanized steel one for $160. Then plastidip sprayed the inside and exterior bottom to prevent rusting away.

(Edit: Drilled holes around the perimeter for drainage before spraying)





Filled it with four bags of potting soil and turned my girlfriend loose. All those succulents were in individual pots taking space in my patio.

 

Shouldn't it drain water also? I really don't know. I know some of these things have drains some don't.

 

I drilled a couple holes around the perimeter too. Forgot to add that.

 

Just picked up the first of many more to come for the new project...
Got a few looks when I was stuffing them inside the cab

 

I've been super terrible at keeping before and after photos of my front yard landscaping project. Truth be told it's been like 2 years in the making all done by me and my family. Lots of rentals and lots of work but there's something about the satisfaction you get when you do it yourself.
This is an aerial view from Google maps as you can see we started off with all natural desert landscaping.

The first phase we worked on was the lower/street portion of the circle driveway. Complete removal and rebuild with rock, retaining wall, turf, flagpole. (Just realized my old 2.5 gen is in this photo) Miss that truck sometimes...
This is an after photo from Google Street view.
This was all done last year, this year we've been working on "phase 2" which is the upper portion of the circular driveway. It's almost done, I just gotta add some rock on the side of the turf to match the bottom portion you see above.
Overall it's coming together nicely, most importantly the wife loves it. "Phase 3" is the upper portion above the rock wall (hard to see in the picture). "Phase 4" is our backyard which has already been in progress by a contractor that's putting a pool in for us. This is the conceptual drawing we made for the contractor to go off of. Right now the backyard is in complete disarray lol

This is what our backyard looks like right now LOL
This is what it looked like before construction began.

 

Very. Nice. Job! Love the look and the attention to detail you have injected into your project. Congrats!

 

I've been threatening to do this for herbs, and upgrade from the keg tubs we're currently using. I'd like to do them staged, stair step them up.

This is the proper way to do it, about 2-4" up, and throw an PVC drain elbow on it. That way you'll hold some water that'll naturally wick up into the soil above. Probably doesn't matter as much w/succulents, but great option for veggies. Even better, use fill stone for the bottom, and add a PVC tube from that layer to above the soil, so you can water by filling up the stone substrate.

 

Good advice.

I can't grow anything other than succulents, like veggies and fruits, because I have a nocturnal zoo going on. Raccoons, skunks, opossums, etc. that would turn it into a free buffet.

 

I have a damn chipmunk problem right now. Friggin Chip & Dale in my stack stone beds, turning it into Swiss cheese with all the burrows they’re digging from the edge of the beds to the middle, and back to the edge. I need to address that issue in the coming days.

 

Appreciate the kind words! It has been a project for sure but we love the fact that we can call it our own design

 

Beautiful job that looks great. Such a contrast from SW to NE with the typical home/landscaping. I'm digging that look you got going.
That last pic... all those huge dog landmines!

 

Finally got around to doing my basement bathroom. Last project of the interior of the house. Quick before and after. Ripped everything out to the studs.

 

Thanks man! Yeah huge difference when you only get like 4 inches of rain a year
Thats the battlefield you gotta deal with when you have a 120 lb Mastiff watching your domain haha

 

Trying to explain this to someone....what degree is this cut for a 5/12 roof pitch? He says it's a 45...no way! Lol.

 

You can explain it but you can't make them understand it.

That representation maybe to intricate for them, try drawing it in crayons with pretty colors,that may work better

 

You're hired. Come do my master bathroom!

 

Do more pictures help or hurt?

 

22.5

 

It tells ya right on the blueprints... 67.5... Subtract that from 90 and you get 22.5 .. just like @TILLY said ...

That's if the blueprints is for a 5/12 pitch... 5" drop for every 12"s

12/12 would be a 45 degree angle...

 

Sold my house Tuesday. It was one big home improvement.

 

He said it is a 5/12 pitch. He's building a shed. Now he's stuck on how to get the cut angles where it meets the top plate. He got as far as measuring the top edge and marking a line at the 5'4" and 5/16th. It's been years since I did any of this stuff.

 

Thinking is hard and sucks. Just tell him to get some brackets like these. I got something similar when I built my shed 20+ years ago.

$50 EZBUILDER 50 Structurally Stronger Truss Design Shed Builds 6in - 14in Widths Any Length Storage Garage Playhouse Easy Framing Kit 2x4 Basic Barn Roof Wood NOT Included

https://www.amazon.com/Structurally...xnbjTVPU8eq1HHSxL3OhByuHuuWdWhjwaAkliEALw_wcB

 

Here was the winter project that dragged out pretty much allllll frigging winter.
The dreaded living room.
The smallest linear wall had 5 yup 5 layers of wall paper, I wanted to shoot the past previous owners with a nail gun,with a nail gun it would take time,thus way they can feel the pain I went through to remove all of the wall paper.lol just kidding I don't want to offend anyone here.

 

Just about done just need to finish the crown.

 

Nice. That color combo makes me think of beach/cottage
Have a set of those 301s, love them
POs do some of the stupidest shit.
The nail gun punishment is very fitting. Nice work!

 

haha let's do it. All i gotta say is that I'm glad it's done and over with

 

It is funny how our brains work sometime. I loved scrolling through this thread to get inspiration and see what everyone is doing; but when I got deep into my new home projects I forgot it existed...

closed a few months ago on 5 acres in NW Florida with a pier home that was flipped by the guberment. So I have a lot to do, but with the announcement of our first/only kid on the way, we are trying to prioritize and focus.

The home has a metal roof and no gutters, but has a wrap around deck that catches most of the water runoff. The back was getting pitted pretty deep and we are debating a gravel driveway... so.. gravel test...






We made a paint run and are currently deciding which color for the living room:




And got the brains/background installed on my IT/Nerd corner. Still need to wire hide and blah blah...



But this is all the recent work that the truck helped with. Trying to get the workout/man space cleaned up so I can divert all focus to finishing unpacking and organizing.

 

Ubiquiti?

 

You know it! Moved to a whole home wired system, with a ceiling mounted AP... Cameras installed with more to come.. I want to see those deer lol...