Your DIY Home Improvements - Post'em up!

[earntaz]

Excellent!!

[Chick_Maggot]

Thanks. Still lots more to do in the backyard.

[Chick_Maggot]

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">I can't leave well enough alone I guess. I decided to make the frame a little more substantial for a wall hanging in the foyer. Some stained 1x6, a little distressing of the wood, a jute rope inlay, done. The hardest part was hauling that monster up and down the ladder by myself.</span></span>

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[Chick_Maggot]

<span style="font-size: 14pt">A little more work needed to be done outside. We decided the current foliage looked a little disorderly and the space needed to be cleaned up. Those plants can get about 25ft high and I didn't want to be trimming something so tall in my twilight years.




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The answer was a little more hardscape and less greenery. Still have some additional work to do on the deck and pergola, but it's essentially finished. Also need to remove the large stump left over after chopping down the old foliage. We're hoping the colorful hibiscus blooms make the space pop.</span>






<span style="font-weight: bold">After the sticker shock of pricing three large and colorful ceramic pots, we decided to take another route and have some fun making these planter boxes for the hibiscus. The palm tree ornaments are some trivets I got from eBay for practically nothing.</span>

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[markinnaples]

Love the boxes, nice job.

[mockingbird812]

That is some handy work Steve!

[ne70ss]

Built the kids a clubhouse.

[Chick_Maggot]

<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">Worked on the front entryway today. Finally hung the array of pendant lights after spending a couple days making them. Have yet to get my electrician here to give them power. Soon.</span></span>

[ne70ss]

Very cool

[Chick_Maggot]

A clubhouse on the water. Lucky kids. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]