Grissom with his new Ray Bans getting ready to go out on the town.
west wall framed.
chunkers usually watches me do manly things with manly tools. he decided it was break time.
heres mango. she is a crazy monster.
finally got my new toy. what did i do without one?
one of my biggest pet peeves is a bouncy floor. so for the master bedroom, enter: (2)-2x10's. they are holding up my 2x8 floor joists spanning 18'-0" long. son of a buck. the beam makes it amazing.
this beam is under the living room. took me a good while to dig down with a crazy hand gardening shovel. then it took my brother in law and I forever to get it up in place. i hate dirt crawl spaces.
the jack is sitting on a CMU so it'll be nice and strong. two rooms down, two to go.
this is the hillbilly of a storm door. it is nasty. it is redneck. it is horrid. time to make it fancy.
hinges before.
i loved the handle, so it gets to stay.
so after i took of layers of paint, clear coat and stain, i finally got down to the wood. then i made wife sand some small stuff cause of her womanly dainty fingers.
i used minwax early american 230 for stain.
this is the grid that ill be putting antique glass in. i know, i know, im classy.
since im an expert glazier naturally, i wouldnt like the white compound against the wood.
so i got these 1/4" x 1/4" rods to hide the glass inserts.
i salvaged 7 of the 8 antique pieces needed for the grid, from my old work at the glass shop. so only the bottom right piece is regular double strength glass.
here is the redone hinges. the stain i used was a satin stain cause im not a big fan of really shiny finished wood. wife didnt have a say. i hope she doesnt read this.
it took waaaaaaay longer that i expected to get this done. but hey, im not chris gable. he is the man. but for my first wood door renovation, its not bad. for the front, its a 10 yarder or so. but on the inside, its good up close. its just that some paint got into the grain of the wood and i couldnt get it out. son of a buck.
there are four of these on the inside that turn to remove the grid. its supposed to have another frame with a screen for the summer, but i have no idea where thats at. i guess ill be making one.
interior view. all done. finally. next will be the front door. not looking forward to that.
hardwood flooring in the living. cant wait to refinish it. it is nasty. well honestly i cant wait to get rid of a serious amount of plaster. son of a buck.
vizio. enough said.
living room chimney. of course it doesnt work. why would it work?
kitchen chimney. its raining rubble.
nearly finished bedroom. this is all you get to see. so sneak a peak.
sneaky sneaky!
here you get to see the retarded single pane windows. and my frustration with drywall mud in corners.
getting ready to rent a floor sander and go to town on this crazy old tongue and groove subfloor. might as well keep it original to the house. seems like ill need a cement truck full of filler to get this escapee of a board down.
modern greatness in the farm house. the grass is a drying rack for baby bottles and milk retrieving purposes only.
one of the three new members of the family.
red the ringtail revival. also known as murdoc.
i hated the placement of this. but it grew on me. like a slippery salamander on a mossy rock.
meet rocky bottom blue bocepheus. or lady of the night. wife calls her lady.
rough life.
coon hunting? fail.
where did the cap for the exhaust go?
protector of the house? wrong. he wants friends.
meet clint. hes been with us for quite sometime. he may move, but chooses not to.
rally pig. i need to get my inspection up to date. wrong. i live in indiana. no one cares what you drive. or how you drive. for that matter, or even if its in one piece. but i drive a saab. im fancy.
