What Home Improvement project have you completed that made you stand back and say, "Dang I'm good" :)?

What Home Improvement project have you completed that made you stand back and say, "Dang I'm good" :) Asked by LouLou 27 months ago Similar questions: Home Improvement project completed made stand back Dang Business.

Similar questions: Home Improvement project completed made stand back Dang.

LOL Well, to be perfectly honest...it will be FINISHED today... A couple of years ago, an upstairs window was open during a good rain...and some water leaked in...settling in the ceiling of the guest bathroom....It was just along the edge...and enough to make the drywall tape come loose and droop down.... The only time I remembered it was when company's coming....at that point...it was screaming FIX ME...FIX ME...but I had a bunch more important stuff to do before they arrived. Finally, I grabbed my 'bucket of mud'...propped the ladder in the tub...risking life and limb to work on the ceiling...LOL Today, the 'mud' is completely dry...I will totter atop the rocking ladder, sand the dang thing...and be DONE... If I don't break my neck....each time I sit on the potty in there...I can admire my wonderful work...and say, "Dang, I'm good". Sources: My crazy life HELENofTROY's Recommendations DIY to the Rescue (DIY): 50 Home Improvement Projects (DIY Network) Amazon List Price: $19.95 Used from: $1.00 Average Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Do-It-Yourself: The Home DIY Handbook: How To Fix Every Part Of Your Home: Floors, Ceilings, Walls, Windows, Doors, Stairs, Sinks, Drains, Gutters, Roofs, Fences, Brickwork And Pipework Amazon List Price: $10.99 Used from: $1.99 Werner 223A-6 StepRight 3-Foot Type II Step Stool Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 19 reviews) Intertape 2072 Seams Real Easy Drywall Joint Tape 1.9-Inches x 300-Feet Amazon List Price: $9.99 .

I'm only taking a slot so I can put in pictures! I made these steps down the side of the house: I had only so many pavers and I used every one of them! And I figured out how to save rain water: Not exactly a thing of beauty but it gives me 500 more gallons of water for the garden!

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Floor and More We bought a house that was pretty utilitarian inside. Good quality things just sort of without any style. The loft was really dark and dreary so we ripped out the grayish industrial carpet and painted and refinished the baseboards.

We then put in hand scraped hickory hardwood floors. My husband and I had never done any sort of flooring before. This floor was VERY dynamic so we had to really mix it up and take care to make it look balanced and right.

When we were done and looked at our new bedroom we were speechless. It looked amazing, like not even the same room. I am sure people have done much more but for us this was huge.

We are going to remodel this house together just ourselves and it was the first project attempted and completed successfully. That was the best part. No problems, fights, issues.

We rocked it! .

My mother-in-law had a gate that was as old as the house and looked it. But it's a very narrow passageway so I eventually took upon myself constructing a new one. I did, hung it, and then closed it and it closed securely.

I vividly remember thinking, "My talents are wasted. " That's my version of your "Dang, I'm good. " Fast forward a couple of years and the gate isn't working so well.It is now replaced by a professional, who pointed out that I needed to have left more space (make the gate even narrower than I did) to permit the wood to swell (never mind that it was baked and should not have expanded; it did.

) One can know all about a task but one thing, and that one thing will be what sinks the task.

NExt to none Next to none. You see the first time you lay tile, lay wooden flooriing, add trim, paint, prime, put up sheetrock, lay cement, lay stone, shingle a roof, or do most anything, you do a less than perfect job. Or you hurry.

Or it rains. Or you don't have the right tools. Or the tools you rent have a 4-hour limit.

Or your idiot brother in law steps in it. Or you work until past dark when you can't see the lousy job you're doing. Or your wife gets stressed out form the huge mess and you hurry to finish.

Then by the time it's time to do it again, you've forgotten what you learned the first time. If you want a really good job done, have the family move out of the house for about three times as long as you think it's going to take. Then only work an hour at a time, taking long breaks.

Rent or buy the very best tools and materials. Do NOT go to "Menards" or any cut-rate home improvement place where the wood looks like it's been pre-warped into just the shape you need to make a long canoe, and the tools are bubble packed with the words "Dear Sirs-- Most exxcellentish item! " priced at $1.99 and made out of gray Taiwanese monkey metal.

Get a really old cranky retired handyman to sit around and yell at you as to how to do things the right way. They're generally available for free or a beer an hour. Priceless..

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.