[kyle_uran]

I added this wall to separate a formal living room/ dining room. Now, we define it as a play room. When/if we sell, we will lay wood floors and market it as a study. Though, as for now, it holds all the toys for my 3 year old son and baby due in November.



Before the wall, the only other major addition i've done is added this deck and removed a flower bed from against the back fence line. When i bought the house 3 years ago, there was an overgrown flowerbed with trash shrubs and bushes. Ripped it out and sodded the yard so there was more room.

[NewguyNY]

Originally Posted by kyle_uran

I added this wall to separate a formal living room/ dining room. Now, we define it as a play room. When/if we sell, we will lay wood floors and market it as a study. Though, as for now, it holds all the toys for my 3 year old son and baby due in November.







Before the wall, the only other major addition i've done is added this deck and removed a flower bed from against the back fence line. When i bought the house 3 years ago, there was an overgrown flowerbed with trash shrubs and bushes. Ripped it out and sodded the yard so there was more room.

Looks great man. I like what you did creating the study there. Looks like that space was built with that in mind. Very nice!

[ddnww]

Don't have any build pics, I cant find them.
But here is my pond I designed and built myself.
Its about two years old.

[NewguyNY]

Very nice man! I like it a lot!

[marshal]

i really expected a lot more from you guys? where are the grottos and scantily clad women

[NewguyNY]

Originally Posted by marshal

i really expected a lot more from you guys? where are the grottos and scantily clad women

You notice a conspicuous lack of basement pics right?

[NewguyNY]

Gathering materials....

[Pro4-runner]

Definitely a +1 on the hatred of laying tile. The hidden shelf in the stair closet looks awesome I'm still struggling with how to hide wires in my living room since my tv is wall mounted on the stone fireplace. I'll get some pictures up when I get a chance. Great thread idea!

[NewguyNY]

More headway in the bathroom. I knew going in there would be surprises, there always are. Well under the tile floor was hardwood floor and a ton of water damage down to the sub floor. Guess it's a good thing I'm doing this now because this crap needed to be addressed yesterday. At this point 90% of the demo is done. Just need to clean up a bit, replace the rotted subfloor and rip out all the drywall. The new shower walls will be going up next. Getting there. Man. I have muscles that have been hibernating for a very long time that are not exactly happy to be awake now lol.



I had a helper today, but he had no thumbs and was a nightmare with a hammer so I kicked him out.

[NewguyNY]

Had a day off today so I decided to frame up the knee walls for the shower. Just have to rip down the ceiling and the drywall on the walls, change some wiring, add the 110 for the heated floor, do some plumbing and then drywall and tile and done. Getting there.

[blind squirrel]

Looks good. What year is was your house built? Mine was '74 and nailing into some of the studs that were original when I remodeled was almost impossible by hand.

[NewguyNY]

Thanks man. The house was a jigsaw puzzle built piece by piece. The oldest part being about 30 years old. The guy that built it was doing restoration work on old building downtown at the time he was building it so he reclaimed a bunch of really old timbers to frame this place up with. Those dark 2x6s are over 100 years old. Not the easiest things to pound nails into, that's for sure. Very glad that the real hard work is basically done at this point. I did also find out yesterday that there's a second ceiling a foot above the existing ceiling that's unnecessary. So I'm going to be able to raise the ceiling by a foot in there so it'll be an 8' ceiling and match the master bedroom. So that's some good news. Not a huge room, but that extra height will definitely make it feel bigger.

[marshal]

oh god, mixing rough cut true size lumber with modern milled. what a nightmare

[NewguyNY]

Originally Posted by marshal

oh god, mixing rough cut true size lumber with modern milled. what a nightmare

True freaking story there. After this though I will have basically redone the whole house so there won't be anymore major renos to be done. It's a huge PITA doing it, but the end results make it worthwhile.

[NewguyNY]

Ahhhh. Clean slate. Let the fun begin!