You know, we can also help program an arduino to just blink a bunch of lights, make it look like it's doing something useful. Maybe even click some relays?Interesting. I'm not sure I care enough when the Canadian Tire 3 minutes away sells jug refills for $2 but I love the concept.
Nice! Is that off the shelf or did you make it
A little late to the party, but....WOW! Very nice.Made this for my mom for Christmas. Took about 40 hours all in because it was my first attempt at most of it. I'm pretty pleased overall.
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Isn't that what all chickens aspire to?They'll probably see the tiles and quartz counter tops when they quit laying and become roasted chickens.
Fing beautiful Hawkbox I see your perfecting your craft!Made this for my mom for Christmas. Took about 40 hours all in because it was my first attempt at most of it. I'm pretty pleased overall.
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Wow, that turned out great!
A little before/after comparison. Tiling done and grouted. Last detail in the job. Glad it's over, LOL. This job precluded a lot of brewing this year. I'm going to add a couple small shelves on either side of the window now that the backsplash is completed. That'll give the missus a place to put a plant or two and break up the rather plain looking area around the sink.
you might miss the table but love the pantry, that's a must in any kitchen
A little before/after comparison. Tiling done and grouted. Last detail in the job. Glad it's over, LOL. This job precluded a lot of brewing this year. I'm going to add a couple small shelves on either side of the window now that the backsplash is completed. That'll give the missus a place to put a plant or two and break up the rather plain looking area around the sink.
That was very cheap vinyl sheet left over from where we'd started a facelift YEARS ago, just a couple years after we got married. But just as we started that, we wound up getting custody of three grandchildren, the youngest being 2 months old, the oldest 5. At the time, there were 8 of us living in the house, so putting any room out of commission, especially the kitchen, was not an option. Needless to say, renovations came to a screeching halt, and I just slapped that cheap stuff down not even thinking it would be more than a couple months before the kids would be back with their mom (my eldest daughter). Here we are about to celebrate the youngest's 16th birthday, and just now finishing up the remodeling. I have a lot more time on my hands now, however, being retired and bored, so it's a little easier to schedule them and renovation projects go a bit faster. Fortunately, this time, relocation of the fridge made me look closer under the kitchen floor and find some very serious support issues that we repaired before we restarted the renovation. I guess all things happen for a reason.Wow, that turned out great!
In the 'before' image, the vinyl flooring is identical to some I installed a few remodels ago, in a different house. And it cracked like that too.
Yeah, the pantry cabinet has a twin that can't be seen in the photo, but to the immediate right of where the missus was standing when she took these photos, which is where the original dining room was. They were actually already installed in the Before photo, as we'd just finished the dining room renovation when she took that photo. The house was built with a separate formal living room as was the style in the 70's, for which we had absolutely no use other than our PC room, and we really didn't it like being the first thing seen when coming in the front door. Home offices tend to be chaotic with all the paperwork and stuff from day-to-day life. At least one desk (mine usually) will be a total disaster. After the middle grandchild moved out, we commandeered her room for our office. We then removed a wall and combined the living room with the dining room so we now have a 23 foot long mess hall (as I call it). We put the two pantry cabinets in that end as well as added three more cabinets (two wall mount, one base) around the fridge, and removed the soffit in the kitchen so I could use 42" wall cabinets.you might miss the table but love the pantry, that's a must in any kitchen
Hm. That looks real nice.Forgot one. We also added a gravel parking area to replace the muddy spot where I used to park my truck View attachment 27943
Out of all the work, the only part I contracted out was the tile, simply because I didn’t think the kitchen would be a good place to show off my lack of skill with tile. All the rest was me and the missus with a little help 1 day a week for a couple months from a friend that needed work and happened to be in the area for his daughter’s school.
Still have the bathrooms to do which will be major remodeling to increase the size of the shower in the master bath and make the plumbing in both more accessible and maintenance friendly. Some styling upgrades are certainly in the works. That’s gonna take some serious planning to avoid shutting down both bathrooms because they have shared water supply plumbing.
Oh yeah, also have a shed rebuild for a brew kitchen to do. Are we having fun yet?