The D-I-Y Home Improvement thread.
 

So I've been working on some stuff at my house, and I thought I would post it up. I get alot of idea's from variations of other stuff I've seen, so if any HMT'ers have some stuff they've done, post up.


On the side of my townhouse there is this box on the side of every house. Its used for the fireplace (if you got a house with one). The fireplaces they were offering were those "for show" ones, but not anything that would actually heat the house, so I told them I didn't want it. When you don't get one, they just drywall over the "empty space" that would have been your fireplace.

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/6494/house12lg.jpg


So I decided that I wanted to tear out the empty space behind the wall and make a TV cabinet. I tore a hole in the wall and then framed in the two shelves. Drywalled the new walls and ceiling. The trim work is still needed around the shelves, but I've been putting it off because I'm not a carpenter. I'll end up doing it, it's just gonna take me longer than if I did that kind of ---- every day. Oh, I also installed the electric, cable, and recessed lights.

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/9748/house26zf.jpg


http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/3989/house33me.jpg



Another thing I thought I would do is add a TV shelf upstairs in the loft. The room isn't super huge, and sometimes things just seem too plain, so I found a spot that I wanted to do it above the stairs. I'm still finishing the drywall, but it's almost there. (Cable and Electircity installed too, just has a little drywall mud in the boxes.)


http://img426.imageshack.us/img426/6766/house42lj.jpg


http://img460.imageshack.us/img460/8185/house51cq.jpg


This is about the view where you'll see the TV from the soon to be couch.

http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/5993/house66xd.jpg



If you've got something to post up in the D-I-Y home improvement thread, git r done.

www.HomeMadeHouse.com ownz joo. :P

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dang steve, looks like the house is comming together quite well.

i cant wait to own a house.

heres my crib now:
I cant really do to much to it.

condo style tower. pretty nice, i got a brand new place.
http://i.pbase.com/v3/03/582303/1/51188779.thetower.jpg

my living room with my saltwater tank. I frickin love this thing. Also notice my 52" bigscreen i scored for free. the speakers on the tv are blown so the people didnt want it. picture is as good as it gets. we just have it hooked up to a reciever then to a pair of bose speakers
http://i.pbase.com/v3/03/582303/1/51...ivingroom2.jpg

the kitchen
http://i.pbase.com/v3/03/582303/1/51188770.kitchen2.jpg

the dining room.
http://i.pbase.com/v3/03/582303/1/51...diningroom.jpg

where im at about every day around 5pm.
http://i.pbase.com/v3/03/582303/1/51188778.thejon.jpg

the hall way
http://i.pbase.com/v3/03/582303/1/51188769.hall.jpg

thats my new house.

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Ownin a house ain't all it's cracked up to be...especially when it's kind of a project home. Me and my fiance just bought one a few months ago, and all the little stuff that we knew had to be done is ---- compared to the big dog stuff that i just found out that had to be done. I say let the house fall down...i got me a 2 car garage with a second floor and an oil pit ;D

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I just signed the lease on this place today. Move in is December 21st.
the Upland HMT swap house is no more.
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I myself want a "fixer uper". I looked at a house along a river that needed some desperate TLC back when we were gonna get out of the military, but we never accualy contaced a realtor, long story short, it was a bank repo and the bank wanted the payoff of $30,000. now its back on the market for $90K with new carpet, and a paint job. probably ~$6000 worth of work. :-\

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Stevemode, it isn't absolutely necessary, but I've noticed on a lot of the houses that I was working on (I do construction in the summers) had about 10 one inch holes drilled (just through the sheetrock) behind the tv to vent out the heat if they were using a cabinet like yours for big screen tv's. Like I said, it isn't necessary, but I've been noticing a lot of the electronics installers (no, not electricians, I'm talking about the guys that do surround sound, expensive tv installs, voice command ----) doing it these past few years.

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since i havent posted pics since the house was finished i thought id ----- up in steves thread. we need to finish the basement. and added a cool pic of the chandelier(sp?) right under the front door O0

http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...ZkMzF5NTQx.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...ZkMzF5NTQx.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...ZkMzF5NTQx.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...ZkMzF5NTQx.jpg
http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...ZkMzF5NTQx.jpg

good work though steve. now come do my basement :-*

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---- yo cookie nigga.

Good ----, maybe someday I'll have a house

and a boat

and some dirtbikes...

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how bad does that one cost you a month? :S

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it kinda looks like an apartment. see how their the same and they have an entrance in the middle. looks like theres 4 different homes, homes :P

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stop ------- with your house and send out my wheels :1

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Yes, it is an apartment. Got a really good deal. It is on the Riverside/ Orange County border and if it was on the Orange County side it would have cost an extra 3k a month, just to be able to say you live in the OC. ::) The best part is that my commute to work just went from 55 minutes, down to 4 minutes.

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Yes, it is an apartment. Got a really good deal. It is on the Riverside/ Orange County border and if it was on the Orange County side it would have cost an extra 3k a month, just to be able to say you live in the OC. ::) The best part is that my commute to work just went from 55 minutes, down to 4 minutes.

Is California the only state that puts a wall or fence around their backyard? I notice that most other states have free roaming back yards.

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yeah i know how it is in cali. im from cali 8). i lived in orange county for a few months too expensive for me :y. you can put a fence in the back yard but you dont have to. i know where my yard ends ;)

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Dudes still waiting for some steelies to come through to take the wheels off. I got on his ---- tonight. 8)

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uh oh. steve the new shipping baron :P

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nice house steve

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thats ok hotrex.....I mean steve, I figgered since it was a third party deal it would take a little time ;) house looks good by the way, I have to do my basement, my house is like boosted's new house all finished except basment, but the garage is finished so who gives a ---- about the rest 8)

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same here everything but the basement.

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Just cause you had to call me hotrex, now I have to mention to everyone that you got MINT HX wheels with BRAND NEW TIRES for $200 plus shipping. ;)

See who catches ---- now. >:D

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So far all I got is a empty paypal account :P

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If the timing is an issue, let me know and I'll refund you. I'd actually make money selling them for what they're worth. lol ;)

But anyway, you're ------- up the home improvement thread, so now you have to post pictures of your house. If you need anything further PM me or make a "I hate Stealthmode that fucken bastard" thread. 8)

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Haha, you live in Riverside. :P


My house hasn't changed in the 1.5 years I've lived in it. If I was smart when I was younger I would have bought a house. I decided I wanted to buy turbo parts and max out my credit cards instead. :1 Brand new houses I was looking at that were selling for ~$75,000 are now selling for $200,000+ no matter how shitty they are. Now I'm fucked and can't afford the cheapest shitbox house out here. :3 Time to move.....

House looks good Steve. Now you just need to find a good painter to finish it off. Too bad there isn't any in that area. :P

BTW, I hope you put insulators around those recess cans. Those fuckers get hot and have been known to set fires if installed without insulators. If there isn't any insulation above that area then it doesn't matter though...
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The cans I got have completely enclosed boxes. The specs said insulation could touch them. I was kinda freakin about how close I was gonna put the insulation to them, but I read the paperwork and the boxes and they both said they could be in direct contact with the insulation.
Then I took some of the insulation I was using and tried to light it on fire with a lighter, and it crinkled up, but wouldn't catch on fire.

After reading all the documentation saying "can be direct contact" and then the fire test, I'm sure I won't have a problem with the insulation in the ceiling. It did take me all of that to convince myself though. lol

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The tv hole is looking good, now paint yo walls nigga :8

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haha, that's how all of the houses in suburbia come. White, white and more white.

I think Steve is still deciding on some colors, but the one who wears the daddy pants has to approve O0

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you'd only have to worry about the lights if you bought the ones that say "non-ic" that means insulation contact..not inter cooled

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Not my house but some pictures of the kind of work we do.

http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/2135/img19231bf.jpg

http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/6518/img19250vw.jpg

http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/4633/img51282ya.jpg

http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/7674/img58023jy.jpg

http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/7172/img58032gl.jpg

http://img322.imageshack.us/img322/7323/img58135sg.jpg

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those stairs are discustingly sick i love em.

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yeah the stairs are bad ass :thumbsup:

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the stairs are scary, ---- looks creepy. I wouldn't want those.

But it is a definite head turner and constructed very well. Just too earthy for me :P

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Being from VT, we tend to get a lot of jobs for very rich hippies. O0