Yes, pic's are a must!!! You do want us to believe you right? 

We had to paint the inside when we bought this house... the colours were... interesting... mustard coloured architraves, walls that looked like they were supposed to be white but had been smoked in for 20 years... but that was actually the colour... yellow architraves and window sills in the bedrooms... lilac in the entrance hall... 

Mind you it all helped keep the price down 

I hate house painting.... so much so that my wife knows I won't do it. I'll move furniture, put down drop cloth, help with tape, etc..... but won't pick up a roller. 

In other news, here's my latest project and reason I haven't  been posting much:



Found on Craigslist for $600. Starts, stops, and runs, but it needs some work before it becomes "reliable". 150cc's of Chinese fury.....haha.

omggggggggggg so jealous!!!!! that is awesome Rich!         

Oh.... it's a hoot. This model is really the base model for all 150 buggies - so there are plenty of upgrades to do. Suspension, intake, exhaust, roof, etc, etc. But the good news about that is I can upgrade what I want when I want. The shocks are literally just springs (no damping) and the seats are rock hard...... so that and seat belts are near the top of the list. 

Oh nice Rich, looks like hours of fun!

Probably need a GS500 motor in there though... 

Let me ask the wif......NO!

Haha. If anything happens to the current engine, I do have a couple other engines iI could try and squeeze in. Gs500, Gr650, or anything else that pops up locally.

Hahahahahahaha

Ok finally... picturesssss!











This pic is cool because you can see the big velcro garage door screen I made    Keeps bugs out and keeps cats in!



Scraping supervisor    The foundation was powerwashed but of course, it doesn't get everything so I went over everywhere with a putty knife too.





I only have a bit more to do and hopefully I'll get it done tomorrow + Monday 

Oh good job! That's looking awesome  Really suits with the colour of the brick.

I love that velcro screen door on the garage too, that's a fantastic idea!

Many many thanks pete !!!

I love my garage screen. All the pre-made ones I found had an opening down the middle with magnets so you could still go through it if you wanted to... well that isn't gonna stop my cats LOL so I had to make my own. I'm lucky to have the separate door to go through when the screen is up!

This house is really special to me because it was my pap and gram's house. It was built in 1959 and they were the only people to live there. It went up for sale when my gram had to go into a home back in 2010/2011ish... and then I was able to afford it in November of 2012!

My dad helped A LOT because when the house sold, the money was to be divided 3 ways between my uncle, dad, and aunt. My dad used part of his share to pay for the down payment and closing costs for me because he was SO happy the house would stay in the family... and he knew how OCD I am about things and that I would take really good care of it.

The inside is total time warp... but it has all been taken care of. I have an awesome mid-century house and I absolutely love it... I have been so blessed. If anybody wants to step back into the 60's, come on over LOL 

That's awesome! Glad you've been able to keep some family history in the family, that's pretty cool!

I wouldn't have minded my grandparents' place but unfortunately it was left to rot a bit and the land it's on was a bit out of our price range.

Finally done!!! Oh and I realize in these pics the color looks really really really red but it's less intense/darker in person I swear lol... I guess it's just what my ancient flip phone does to the color    Now I can move on to scraping and repainting my garage door and window frames.




Since my porch steps are already pretty rough lookin I was thinking of getting that outdoor carpet turf stuff for them... gram used to have green on there and it got worn and ripped over the years... and I am not taking hundreds of dollars out of my savings right now to get new cement steps.


I feel so much better that this is done omg it's awesome 

That looks great! Fresh paint can really lighten up the mood of a place.

So... .you gonna share the detes on the garage screen or did you already and I'm just too lazy to read everything without photos? 

Looks great!

Yup very nice indeed!

Good idea on the stairs, although you could also just paint them green. If you want some extra traction maybe sprinkle some sand on as you paint...

Thank you all!!! I really appreciate it 

Pete, yeah I could paint them green, you're right...!! but oh my if you saw them in person and how rough they look... cracks and chunks missing... you'd understand why I want to cover them since I don't want to spend all that money replacing them right now. They have indeed seen better days 

Hupjai, sure thing! I will share how I made my garage screen. It took a bit, searching online and thinking it through... I wanted something that I could put up/take down in less than 5 minutes and also be able to fold it up and put it away.

My garage frame/opening is 9' x 7' and the largest size screen in a roll I could find was 6' tall. That would have certainly done the trick of keeping my cats inside... but would have left a foot gap at the top for bugs to come in. What I eventually bought was a 25' roll of 4' screen:
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Saint-Gobain-ADFORS-48-in-x-25-ft-Charcoal-Fiberglass-Insect-Screen-FCS8559-M-FCS8559-M/100277433

I figured I would make two sections, each 4' tall and 9' wide. I'd put the top section up first and then overlap the bottom section about 8-10" in the center... not a full foot of overlap because I wanted to leave a few inches at the bottom to lay on the ground. I had some left over wooden trim pieces from something... idk what, I found them up in the rafters of the garage lol... two of them, each about 8' long. Really light but heavy enough to keep the screen down on the ground and deter the cats from trying to get under it.

Ok so now I had the screen and the measurements figured out but I had to decide how to attach it. Velcro of course    I bought over 20' of sticky back velcro from Walmart. I took strips of loop velcro and a staple gun and went carefully around the wooden frame of the garage opening. Both sides and the top, not the bottom cuz I can't staple velcro to cement 

The section of screen that would go at the top of the garage frame I attached hook velcro to the left and right side as well as the top, with a regular desk stapler. Towards the bottom of both the left and right sides, where the bottom section of screen would overlap, I attached more loop velcro so the hook velcro on the bottom screen would attach to it. I know it's probably hard to follow so if you want pictures I can do that 

The bottom section of screen, I only stapled hook velcro to the left and right sides. Where it overlaps in the middle part of the screen, I attach it to the top section of screen with a safety pin so it doesn't sag. Well it really doesn't sag much at all but I guess that's my ocd a bit lol.

So that's about it! I can fold up those two sections and put them away when I'm not using them... and the fiberglass screen is durable enough that it hasn't ripped or anything from me repeatedly putting the screen up and pulling it back down. Out of that roll I bought, I still have 7' left so if I had to make a new section, I could... just need more velcro 

Crystal clear to me!

That's so great/clever/neat/useful!

Woot!!! 

Been working on my van for the past couple weeks... needed some exhaust work and I also put in a new dvd player... spent this past weekend cutting out rust and patching holes 

Didn't take any pics tho because I'm just so disgusted... it sucks to live in one of the "Salt Belt" states 

Still have a long way to go before winter... have to rebuild the rocker panels on both sides. 

I'm gonna stop now or else this should be taken to the Rant Thread 

Quote from: ShowBizWolf on August 29, 2016, 07:18:07 PM
Been working on my van for the past couple weeks... needed some exhaust work and I also put in a new dvd player... spent this past weekend cutting out rust and patching holes 

Didn't take any pics tho because I'm just so disgusted... it sucks to live in one of the "Salt Belt" states 

Still have a long way to go before winter... have to rebuild the rocker panels on both sides. 

I'm gonna stop now or else this should be taken to the Rant Thread 

Pics?