When was your house built?

[bruceha2000]

My wife and I drove every nail.

And your wife is a lefty. That can be very handy if you are a righty, some times you just can't get in from the right side.

I couldn't drive a nail left handed with a hand sledge. My dad was born a lefty but broke his left arm when he was 7 so he learned to write right handed. Eats right as well, golfs and bats left though and he doesn't care squat which hand he uses to hammer. How I envy that ability!

 

[bruceha2000]

Some one mentioned they needed proof/pictures. Here's a few.

Very nice! out of curiosity, are the dips in the top of the sides of the shelf purely decorative, or were they designed to a specific function - like keeping one's muzzle loader handy?

 

[clemsonfor]

Oh i forgot, i put window trim around the windows that i had installed. Previously they were aluminum framed "insulated" (ha) with nothing the paneling just ended adn in the sill there was a strip of panneling and they had that little corner bead over the edges.

And something else i just dont remember?

 

[D33r3 6r33N]

My dad was born a lefty but broke his left arm when he was 7 so he learned to write right handed. Eats right as well, golfs and bats left though and he doesn't care squat which hand he uses to hammer. How I envy that ability!

I'm the same way except in reverse! :laughing:

 

[Lloyd_E]

bruceha,

It's called a whale shelf - Nantucket origin. If you look at it sideways and horizontally you can see the whale outline... but ,yes I can imagine many a muzzle loader being stored there or hanging a black powder sling off of it.

 

[txdon]

2009 for us. We built on the land we bought 15 years prior on the intentions of building a retirement house with a big window with a hilltop view. Done. With the downturn of the housing market the contractors had no problem with the long distances they had to drive.

 

[clemsonfor]

Oh, went to replace one termite eated board on a porch, it ended with the roof overhang resting on 2x4s and jacks as i had torn out the 2 exterior walls to get the rest of the wood i found, plus now was the time to put in new windows i wanted on there (florida type porch, we dont use it, have cat boxes out there and cat door to it). Wife came home and i told her to come here and look "she was like what did you do!" Fixed it better than before, doors have been sitting on another porch for about 2 years, never got around to installing them? Also on this porch it had some rot in the ceiling (tin roof over head). I replaced 2 rotted joists i think and put new ply up for the ceiling.

Im sure i will think of more

 

[ronjhall]

Forgot to post a picture.

 

[clemsonfor]

Here is just one room. This is the front guest bedroom. The last pic is before the window trim was even up!

 

[clemsonfor]

Here is a pic of the Living room (first pic) as it looked when we moved in/bought it. Now the floors are 3/4" 3.5" wide red oak, that i laid myself. I didnt have a pic handy but you get the idea, of what it did look like. The walls were painted to. The second pic is the kitchen as it looked when we bought it. The next pic is after apliances and a wall was removed to get the larger side by side fridge to fit, first pic dont really show it. Excuse the mess on the counter, we were living in the remodel and this was one of the few flat areas. It served as a tool keeping area/workbench. At this point i prolly was still working on stuff in the kitchen anyway. in this pic you cant see it but at some point i took the box floresent light down and replaced it with a nicer fixture and then small moder track lights as well around the perimeter of the cabinets on the ceiling. Also now we just painted the backsplash to breack up the wood look. One day we will tile it with something and new countertops are on a wishlist as well. These pics were over 3 years ago though. The last pic is the back bedroom behind the previous posts bedroom, they have a jack and jill bath between the two that they share.

See what i mean as this place looked like it was right out of the seventies early 80's!