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pictures of the new front lawn
pictures of the new front lawn where the slate will be once it stops raining and I can deal with the drainage issue: the new green lawn new lawn again with electrician working the tree area, see it with cute little flowers surrounding the tree and last but not least, the front of the house …
so what you don't know about buying a house..
your house will eat your money no one ever tells you about those expense to owning your own home beyond the mortgage payments and taxes such as tree trimming, my god that’s expensive landscaping to have that gorgeous green lawn or having a new neighbor move in with pit bulls and that old basket weave …
coat rack and bathroom cabinet
here’s the new coat rack I designed and built before and here’s the beginning of the bathroom cabinet
Remodeling living & dining room
I painted my living room and dining room and installed hardwood floors over the last couple of weeks. Originally I wanted to paint the living room and dining room floors in a really cool artistic pattern with poetry on the floors – similar to this idea Then when I pulled up the carpet and found …
The new gate
The gate I built, if you notice to the left of the picture – there stands the old rickety gate now looking back at the original idea I started with…here, I need to add a latch of some sort..that would be helpful
loving the jigsaw
what I really wanted in a new gate was something like this and there is no way I can afford to put in a 600.00 gate especially since I didn’t want to pay for the labor in the first place…so as I was driving to a client office today, I realized I forgot to measure the height …
who needs a handyman anyways? I can do it!
when I bought my house, i went on the premise that I could do most of the remodeling and handyman work and then when it came too it, the easy way out would be to hire someone to do it but when I got the bids for the work no way, i can do it …
interviewing handymen
i’m interviewing a couple of handymen today for some odd projects around the house and after the first one, I’m thinking it would just be easier to buy a book and do it myself. The first one that showed up was 20 minutes late – i’m ok with that, i’m usually late. Then I showed …