[nholmes]

Originally Posted by #Tee

thats a manly mans diy! you won the house project award lol clap:

Hahaha!

I'm just a detail oriented gearhead.

[RickFLM4]

We are planning to remodel our master bath (and possibly the cabana bath) + paint most of the interior. Waiting on contractor bids and proposed scheduling. Looking forward to seeing everything done, but not looking forward to living through it or paying for it.

[nholmes]

We have plans approved by the city to add 1000 sq/ft to our home, just waiting to finalize the bidding process.

With two kids and two dogs this is going to be interesting, especially since this is going to probably start in the late fall and continue through the winter.

[PoorLurker]

Originally Posted by Flying Ace

got fucking damn you people...house poor here in SF...$1.2M shack.

Rather be poor in paradise than rich in...


but yea, these places are crazy! 4 bay garage! kitchen so big you don't even need cabinets up high, remodel the bathroom in the freaking cabana! Cabana is probably the size of your house, haha

[RickFLM4]

Originally Posted by PoorLurker

Rather be poor in paradise than rich in...


but yea, these places are crazy! 4 bay garage! kitchen so big you don't even need cabinets up high, remodel the bathroom in the freaking cabana! Cabana is probably the size of your house, haha

A cabana bath is a small bathroom inside the house with an external door that opens to the patio...

[PoorLurker]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

A cabana bath is a small bathroom inside the house with an external door that opens to the patio...

haha
I am thinking casita

[Naz24]

Originally Posted by RickFLM4

A cabana bath is a small bathroom inside the house with an external door that opens to the patio...

We did a similar concept with an outdoor kitchen and a TV in the backsplash. Its a cool idea with a pretty easy implementation. My father and i built in a week or so.

[KingOfJericho]

That looks awesome!

[Joekerr]

Built a firepit area over the last two weekends. Rented an excavator to level the ground and dig out the boulders, put down some limestone screening and then compacted it. Then finished with 2 inches of small river rock (and compacted that too). Used some cut up trunks of some trees that fell on our property as stools for that ever so popular rustic look

I'm happy with the final outcome in the last pic.

[PoorLurker]

Wow! That is a cool fire pit in the woods.

Such a foreign idea to have that much land ...Growing up in So. Cal, I have never lived in a house that had a lot size greater than 5,000 sq. ft.

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by PoorLurker

Wow! That is a cool fire pit in the woods.

Such a foreign idea to have that much land ...Growing up in So. Cal, I have never lived in a house that had a lot size greater than 5,000 sq. ft.

Seriously? I had to google that to get a sense of the size - wow!

By comparison, the lot I have now is 96,000 sq. ft. and I don't think its huge or anything, but land is definitely cheaper here!

And where Mr Tonka lives, because, well, Mr Tonka.

[PoorLurker]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Seriously? I had to google that to get a sense of the size - wow!

By comparison, the lot I have now is 96,000 sq. ft. and I don't think its huge or anything, but land is definitely cheaper here!

And where Mr Tonka lives, because, well, Mr Tonka.

haha and before the SF boys chime in... I live in suburbia so one would assume that I get more space!

[carzaddict]

im going to be starting construction on my backyard sometime this week. I'll take some before/after shots.

[Mr Tonka]

Originally Posted by Joekerr

Built a firepit area over the last two weekends. Rented an excavator to level the ground and dig out the boulders, put down some limestone screening and then compacted it. Then finished with 2 inches of small river rock (and compacted that too). Used some cut up trunks of some trees that fell on our property as stools for that ever so popular rustic look

I'm happy with the final outcome in the last pic.

You know you did that just so you could rent the bobcat!

Nice move!

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by Mr Tonka

You know you did that just so you could rent the bobcat!

Nice move!

You got me - I've wanted to play with an excavator for about 2 years now...finally found a reason. Didn't take much to convince my better half either that this would be a good idea to create a firepit.

And the excavator lived up to expectations too - thing was a lot of fun. Amazing what it can dig out - all those boulders were dug out by it - the largest one I dug out, but had to push into place, it was over it's lift capacity it seemed.

Excavator - highly recommended!

[nyalpine90]

very nice! big rocks around it can serve as seating if you have more people over.

[sea6speed]

Originally Posted by Flying Ace

got fucking damn you people...house poor here in SF...$1.2M shack.

It's no wonder my neighborhood is filling up with Bay Area transplants. A shack can be had for $700K, $1.2M still buys a really nice house.

Who knows how long that will last for. Prices have almost doubled since I bought 4 years ago and the Bay Area peeps keep moving in.

[tec333]

oh man...i've had a lot of projects the last 2-3 years.

here's a few...

backyard pool, kitchen, bbq area, modified toolbox, adironrack chairs, shed for my father-in-law, garage-golf sim projector screen etc...

Let me start with the pool..the small spa starts as the before-after

[tec333]

more pics

[jtodd_fl]

Originally Posted by tec333

oh man...i've had a lot of projects the last 2-3 years.

here's a few...

backyard pool, kitchen, bbq area, modified toolbox, adironrack chairs, shed for my father-in-law, garage-golf sim projector screen etc...

Let me start with the pool..the small spa starts as the before-after

It's nice that you let your father in law live in your shed. I hope he pays a little rent.

Seriously though, that's a great looking pool project. The rainbow shot is cool.

[tec333]

LOL..nah he needed storage. so i built him one

[tec333]

those chairs took forever to build