The Home Ownership Thread

[imatlas]

You don't have a tractor? WTF, man?

TBH I don’t have a fence, either.

 

[sugarbutch]

TBH I don’t have a fence, either.

I liked StyFo better when there was a acreage minimum...

 

[Lizard23]

Added a few path lights around the house. A fun quarantine project. Decided not to use those janky stakes that are extremely difficult to use if you have rocky soil and want the lights perfectly plumb and level. Instead i used a hardscape mount directly on a cheap paver. Worked exceedingly well.

So much easier to make level and you just need to bury the paver a few inches below grade. Also much easier to tweak final position and if the lights get hit hard, they just tip over vs. breaking.

 

[RedLantern]

Ordering my ventahood today! Once I found out I could get them to custom paint it, the jig was up. We’re going to have some wild aqua colored countertops and having a matching hood will be cool.

Cost will be nearly double what I had planned after sizing up to 42” and getting custom paint, but sometimes it be like that.

 

[Omega Male]

I’ve got wood.

 

[brokencycle]

Ordering my ventahood today! Once I found out I could get them to custom paint it, the jig was up. We’re going to have some wild aqua colored countertops and having a matching hood will be cool.

Cost will be nearly double what I had planned after sizing up to 42” and getting custom paint, but sometimes it be like that.

Aqua counters? Solid surface or paperstone or something else?

 

[beargonefishing]

I’ve got wood.

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I'm going to make a prediction that you will be paying someone else, probably multiple men, to finish off your wood.

 

[RedLantern]

Aqua counters? Solid surface or paperstone or something else?

No, it's custom reproduction laminate with silver pieces of glitter in it

 

[RedLantern]

No, it's custom reproduction laminate with silver pieces of glitter in it

This, but with silver inclusions

 

[jcman311]

I’ve got wood.

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Nice. You gonna lay some pipe next?

 

[imatlas]

Cost will be nearly double what I had planned...but sometimes it always be like that.

Fixed.

I've lived in a place that still had those counters. It was a perfect time capsule of 1958 that we called the Marvin Schnitzer Home of the Future.

Are you putting in retro-style linoleum to go with that?

 

[RedLantern]

Fixed.

I've lived in a place that still had those counters. It was a perfect time capsule of 1958 that we called the Marvin Schnitzer Home of the Future.

Are you putting in retro-style linoleum to go with that?
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This house is a capsule from 1960. The downstairs is completely untouched, and upstairs is mostly unmolested with some 70's updates (which we are reverting back to period). The thing I can't figure out is they re-textured the walls and ceilings of the common area upstairs - seems like an expensive and strange thing to do.

We are still deciding on flooring, - I have a ton of samples coming my way. We did period correct VCT in our last house, but I don't want to do that again. The dog's nails mark up the finish and it is very cold underfoot. I'm not really interested in stripping and refinishing the floor every 6-12 months if I can find anything else that will do! Looking at a bunch of more modern vinyl tile products (I would like to do a pattern), and as a fall-back will do plain old black and white checker in a sheet vinyl (I would prefer to avoid the stark white though, as it shows dirt so easily).

The cabinets will be birch, as the original cabinets are birch and the lighter color will go well with the aqua counters and backspash.

 

[Omega Male]

I'm going to make a prediction that you will be paying someone else, probably multiple men, to finish off your wood.

You're right-er than you know. The carpenters are both friends of mine and one plays for the other team. He is locally renowned for hammering in a particularly large nail.

 

[Huntsman]

Step one: buy a tractor, and some chain.

Exactly. I think this is a good plan. But to bring it back around a few pages, I once lived in Allentown, and have often passed the KIng of Silk's house in Catasauqua. I think you absolutely can get an amazing place for little money and live like an eccentric crazy person. But no one around there wants that; they want 300k-1MM McMansions outside of the cities. People don't care about the old an beautiful places in the cities. It's a real shame.

 

[Numbernine]

Exactly. I think this is a good plan. But to bring it back around a few pages, I once lived in Allentown, and have often passed the KIng of Silk's house in Catasauqua. I think you absolutely can get an amazing place for little money and live like an eccentric crazy person. But no one around there wants that; they want 300k-1MM McMansions outside of the cities. People don't care about the old an beautiful places in the cities. It's a real shame.

Worked a lot of pipelines and extraction plants for Air Products.