Thread: Some home improvements

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Congrats on the coming birth! Great job on the addition!

Rich

Originally Posted by Driver50x

Nice work. Doing your own home repairs can definitely save some real $$.

Yeah, for sure. I try to do every thing I can. This is our first house and I have a lot of learning to do though.

Originally Posted by RichB

Congrats on the coming birth! Great job on the addition!

Rich

Thanks Rich!

This past weekend we made great progress. Even though I swear we made 3 trips to Menards getting supplies. I got all the window boxes studded for the drywall, we ripped out the old paneling and found R-13 insulation. We are trying to improve the house and reduce wasted energy so we replaced all the old insulation with R-19. The window deletes have R-19 in them as well. A very good friend of mine came over Saturday afternoon, and Sunday, and we got all the dry wall up, and the last window frame made and put the last window in. We saved a lot of time by putting the dry wall up through the last window after I removed it. Other wise we would have had to truck them up the stairs. We would have had to cut each sheet in half to get them up there and that would have made a lot of work then and later during mudding etc. There are 10 sheets of dry wall in the little room. Installing the last window was a pain. We finally got it level but it looks out of place looking from the out side because that addition has settled over time. It was put on in 1950. Once I get the trim painted brown and get the shake shingles on, it should look normal. Now we'll be taping and mudding to get ready to get it painted soon with any luck.

My wife has decided to go with a light green color for the room. It's called Lagoon if I remember correctly. We got a new crib thanks to her parents, and it is Lagoon. My wife is going to paint the end walls lagoon, the floor, ceiling, and the rest of the walls white. She picked up a rug to put on the floor for now. It is sort of light brown, tan, and creme striped. We are building some floating shelves out of the old window trim and painting them lagoon too. Hopefully the lagoon end walls look ok. If it were me I'd just paint it all white with some fake hard wood floors but I don't have any taste in out fitting houses.

We've already noticed a really huge improvement in sound quality, or lack of hearing the a hole dogs behind us barking, and the temps are more in check with out all the leaking windows. Before in the summer that room was stupid hot, and in the winter, it was stupid cold. It was a storage/junk collector and a wasted room. Not anymore. Also before, if you were in the sun room looking at someone on the deck, you could carry a conversation with them through the shut windows. Not ideal at all. Haha