What home improvement work did you do today?

You time is valuable and you can’t get it back!

 

This is up next for my treadmill runs when the weather turns. Shows that require undivided attention work well for that.

 

Nothing except cut the grass..

 

Not really home improvement..but almost..lol, finally made my my doors for my reef tank, walnut panels with satin poly,, my youngest son chose the paint color for the rest of the tank stand.

 

Looks great, you son picked a great color.

 

Thank you..tank has been sitting for almost a year..finally got her wet.

 

I took some more updated photos this weekend of my Equestrian project. Horses are going in the facility tomorrow. It’s very exciting to see things coming together! I have 12x saddles mounted to a rotating tack wall. I had whiskey barrels cut to use as sinks in the two bathrooms. I had 2” Doug Fur mounted over the front of the cinderblock walls to dress them up. It’s been a fun project but its about to be completed.

 

I'm impressed with each of your projects.
Each one is better than the one before.

 

I'm gonna hire you to build my next house.

 

Picked up lots of new and exciting plants. No back breaking this time.

At home depot I picked up a kiwi corydorysomething. Its got nice variegated green leaves with pink borders. Also grabbed a few Maui red ixora, very cool flowering plants.



Stopped at a nursery and got a strange canna. Also got what might be a Peruvuan lilly, the nursery wasn't sure. Here is the canna


Then came the craigslist adventures. Went to some weird rebellious guys place and picked up 4 pots with 3 different kinds of canna and he threw in a spider plant.

Then went to a cool hippie girls house and bout 5 kinds of plumeria, a smuggled elephants ear, a ginger and something called a tubrose. Only took a pic of the pink plumeria, but also got 2 purples and a red from her.


Gonna plant them all tomorrow after work.

 

Today I ended up working in my porch project, almost done. Now I'm off to build the stairs and widen the entry. I need some cool flowers like the previous post

 

Just make sure all the plants are Tuco safe! Hate for him to get ill because he nommed on something in the yard.

 

Yup they're all good. I had a sago that I pulled and potted, giving that to my mom since she has no dogs.

He jumps to try and get my bananas

 

Had some retaining walls replaced. They were wooden and were falling apart.

 

My cousins wife saw our bathroom wood paneling and wanted me to do their living room wall. One piece left

 

Beautiful !!!!

 

Helped my son out by building some steps. He sold his home and is in the process of moving. Not aesthetically the best but it gets crossed off the list of things to do.

 

bought/built/filled a little sandbox for the kids...as well as one of the best toys for it, The Big Dig....haha

 

I believe there's a spray you can use to kill the dry rot, then you fill it in with bondo and paint over it. My brother did this on some hot tub siding

 

You follow any plans for the honeycomb shelf? Got a text from the wife yesterday saying she wanted something similar. I was just going to design build but if there's some plans to reference that wouldnt hurt...

 

no I just eyeballed an approximate size and then figured out what angles.

 

Looks @1UPPER style!

 

That will be nice! If you don’t mind me making a suggesting, install a small French drain or scuppers near the end of the half walls. This will let any trapped water out when it rains.

 

I’ve got more suggestions and ideas if you want them?

 

That my friend is next level!! Sum beach.

 

Just stop........and start building my house.

 

No worries. I like to brain storm and think of possible issues for clients and friends. Have you already considered the location of your downspouts off the new roof? I would cantilever your roof overhang at least 2’ from the outside of your corner post. This will solve a few potential concerns. This will give you more shade over your porch area pending where the sun faces, more cover over the steps and allow your downspouts off the new roof to be left outside of the 4’ high partition walls. I would consider using rain chains and having them discharge into a planter with decorative landscaping rocks to add a nice focal detail. If you like the timber post details you currently have you could make the gable end of the new roof addition with a King or Queen Timber truss design.