Thread: Some home improvements

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My wife and I are expecting another little one in about a month. Maybe sooner. My wife has never been able to have her own room dedicated to the new baby for any of our kids. I'm hoping to change that now. We have a room attached to our bedroom that was called a sun room. This room has/had 7 windows in it. They all leaked air mostly, all but 1 would not open due to being painted several times, and needed replaced. When I had some other windows replaced a while back, I got estimates for these to be replaced as well. $390 each x7 was a big pill to swallow. Well, I had an idea. I told my wife we would just remove the windows, box the openings, and frame them like a regular wall. I'm going to insulate everywhere I can, and we will dry wall the walls. They currently have some particle board paneling on them that is ugly. On the outside I'll paint all the window trim brown except for the bottom board to follow the rest of the house, and add shake shingles over the plywood and try to make it blend in. That will be the tough part because the shingles are aged and someone has already painted brown over them. This will kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Get her, her baby room, and save me about $2000 on replacing windows.

We are putting 2 windows in this room still. I got lucky last Friday when I went tot Menards. I had 2 cheapy windows picked out and my daughter wanted to go walk through the doors at the display area. I figured what's the harm in that? We get over there and low and behold, they are tearing down the display and the windows in it are on clearance. We're talking $300 Jeld-wen windows. There were 3 laying there and 2 were the same size, close to what I had on my cart. The latches were a little different, but for $125 for the pair I wasn't going to complain. I got way better quality windows for just a little more than what the cheapy Larson windows I was going to get.

You can see we already have 1 installed. I'm waiting to do the last one until we get the dry wall hoisted up into the room. I think it's the best chance of getting it up there without cutting the sheets into half sheets because nothing that long will make it up our stairs. Hopefully in the next 3 weeks I can get this room done before Ivvy gets here.

The first pic is when we first bought the house to give an idea of the old windows.