The Den is done

Well I did some stuff I said and other things I scraped. Overall I'm very happy with what I'm working with now. Here is the run down.

 

New Front of the Den

I painted the trim and the fireplace Hunter Green, and I painted the walls Oatmeal. I didn't build a wall entertainment center or close in the fireplace. I just sealed the fireplace so no moister will get in and bought a new entertainment rack. I replaced the 42' Philips plasma TV with a 58' Samsung plasma TV.  I also installed about 6 new outlets, Ethernet ports and surround sound wire all around the room for easy access.

 

New Back of the Den

Not many changes here just painted the trim and the laundry room door Hunter Green, and moved around a few things.

 

New Left side of the Den

No big changes just the trim is Hunter Green and the wall is Oatmeal and I changed out the old blinds to 1' Honey Pine wooden blinds. (I know I need to take the pics at night so the colors can be seen, but oh damn well *LOL*)

 

New Right side of the Den

Hunter Green trim with Oatmeal wall. I added a nice wall clock.

 

Just a pic of one of the 6 new outlets.

 

Pic of the new touch screen tablet style  remote.

The Logitech Harmony 1100 

I'll be doing my own review in a few days.

 

Pic of the new Plasma

58' Samsung  

I'll be doing my own review in a few days.

 

Pic of the new Sectional Sofa

This thing is HUGE 8.5" long x 10.5" long and the seats come out 2.5" 

This bad boy can handle the whole family at once. The color is Chocolate Chunk.

That's it for the den. The next post will have some old updates I never did.

Before The remodel

This is the den as it is now.
The den is 20 x 12

The Front of the Den.

I am intending to build a rack to hold the Dish box, Blu-ray, Theater/Switch box on the left hand side of the fire/tv place. The right side of the fire/tv place will have a dvd rack built. I'm thinking of painting the brick (or not - depending on the colors we choose for the room). I'm also building a dual door for the fireplace opening, so we can store things in the non used fireplace (I sealed it up along time ago).

The Back of the Den

The doo doo brown panel has to go, and maybe I'll refurbish the old wooden door that goes to the laundry room, or maybe I'll be lazy and just purchase a now door.

The Left side of the Den

As you can see you can't see a damn thing (sunlight sucks). I'm just going to redo the moldings and most likely install plantation blinds.

The Right side of the Den

Nothing new will really go on over here. Just paint and redo moldings.

 

The Ceiling of the den

Depending on the colors we choose the fan will be replaced. The biggest thing for the ceiling will be the paint. I intend to paint the ceiling a color other than white.

The Floor of the Den

I'm replacing the carpet and I'm doing half carpet in the tv viewing area, and half wood or linoleum in the family pc area.

Well that's it, that's how everything is now. What you can't see is the speaker, cable, phone, & ethernet lines that are ran under the carpet to various equipment. All the lines are going to be hid in plain sight with Wire Molds, because I hate not having easy access. My plans also include crown molding and installing a few more power outlets, a new sofa, and a larger plazma tv (42 now going to 50). Total estimated cost excluding a new sofa and tv will be between $1000 to $1500. Its only that high because I'm thinking of replacing the old paneling with light colored real pine, without the pine the cost is only around $900.

Any suggestions are welcome, colors, idea's ect...

Coming Soon

Coming Soon, the remodeling of the den. I'm going to gut it and redo every damn thing. This should be fun.

Closed in one side of the garage

Here's the almost done bit. I framed the roughly 9 x 7 opening, put in a 36x36 window, and now all I have to do is put up vynil siding at some time.

Home Updates

Here are a few updates that I've done in our two years at this home.



This is a front view of the house. I've put up vinyl siding on the house and garage, and I've put up a solar motion light and a house number plaque as well as two big rocks on the front of the drive way to keep people from messing up my lawn. I replaced all the old light/ceiling fans with new light/ceiling fans with full control wall switches and hand held remotes, and I've installed motion switches in the wall in closet and the laundry room.





This is my 2008 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 4x4 (fully loaded with soft and hard tops, touch screen DVD, MP3, & Sirius Sat radio, pumping out of 7 speakers. You can also see the solar motion light and the home number plaque in the background.



This is my apple tree. Sure its small but its just starting out. You can also see that I have had the 8 stumps grounded down and see the vinyl on the garage really good.




This one side of the Daycare room. We had a Disney mural painted on the wall with the day cares name.
On the other side of the day care room I mounted a 13" TV/DVD on the wall and I mounted a coat rack / cubby on the wall, and I installed a new ceiling fan with full function controls on the wall at the switch and by remote control.






This is one side of the garage/game room. I put in a foos ball table, a pool/air hockey table, cable tv with Nintendo Wii and Play Station 2 on an old 32" tv, and a old Dell computer (no internet connection, because we can't be there to watch whats going on all the time). You can't see it in the pic but behind me is a tread mill and on the other side behind me is a large toy box with the girls toys in it.This is the Other side of the garage/game room. I put in 2 freezers and a fridge. I also put in 2 food storage shelves one is in this pic the other is behind where I took the pic. I also replaced the door with a steal door and push button lock, and I replaced the windows with vinyl double hungs. I rewired the garage/game room and mounted 2 heated ceiling fans that keep the garage/game room warm in the winter and act as normal fans in the summer. Last but not least I mouted an AC unit in the wall and coverd the ceiling beams with insulation to keep the hot or cold air in a smaller area.



This is Chell's 2007 Kia Sadona mini van. Behind the van you can see the vinyl siding and the motion light and home plaque.



This is my computer work station/ entertainment center located in the master bedroom. Its the hub of all the wireless action that I have going on in the house (internet to the den pc, the den PlayStation 3, Jaliel's X-box360, and wirless for the kids handheld devices. Its all powered by my Intel i7 940 overclocked master piece of a Pc with Vista premieum, 6 gigs of ram, 1T of hard memory and displayed on a 22" LCD. (I love my set up, I had it built then customed it myself)
This is the new light/ceiling fan I insalled in the master bedroom. You can also tell that I painted the room sunburst orange and trimmed it in white.


This is the girls room. We painted it blue, trimmed it in white and I mounted a 21" tv/dvd on the wall. I also put up a new kiddie light/ceiling fan.On this side of the girls room I signed their names and let them put up hand prints. I also mounted shoe racks and clothing racks due to the small closet space they have.




This is Jaliel and Anises room. We painted it black, trimmed in white (Jaliel and Anise wanted it black not me). I mounted a 32" LCD and hooked up all HD functions for the Xbox360 and dvd. I also mounted a new light/ceiling fan. (look how messy the room is)


This is the door way to the den, it used to be an open walk way until I put up half a wall and a door.




That's it for now I have other things I've done but I'm tired of updating so until next update

Just Built A New Storage Building

Here it is 12' X 20' in its powered up glory. I installed a motion light and a outside outlet, plus the storage building is fully wrapped with vinyl siding.





Here is a shot of the shelves I built to store my junk.

Moved in and doing good

Here are some pictures of the house at this point. We have been here for about 3 weeks and we have done a few improvements already, check them out.

This the the front of the home all cut and clean.












This is a close up of the home with the new brick/wooden porch we just had built.
















Don't Think you can get in. I installed a high grade dead bolt and push button door lock.

















This is the backyard/playground.
We have added a large durable wooden play set, a small metal frame swing set, a big tractor tire for climbing, a large durable teeter toter, a small 120lbs. limit jungle gym, 2 small toddler play sets, a dump truck load of sand to surround the play sets, and a lot of outside toys.









Here is a close up of the small wooden deck and steps we had built.
















This is a close up of the built on shed. The shed has power and built in storage and work spaces.















This is the first room of the home. We use it as my wifes primary daycare room.
















This is a view of the dinning area. I wall mounted and installed a fire extinguisher, first aid kit, and 1 of the two interconnected fire alarms in the home.














This is a view of the kitchen. I had a cable outlet installed on the counter so my wifes daycare can watch kids shows from the daycare room and so my wife can watch her favorite show (Sponge Bob Square Pants) when she's hookin up dinner for us.













This is the other side of the kitchen.
















This is one side of the den. This side has 3 windows that face the side street were the garage is.

















This is the right side of the den. This side of the room has a gas fire place in a brick frame with a large wooden mantel.
In this picture you can see the comfortable leather chair with my star wars towel on it. My mom and grandma got me as a house warming gift. Thanks ladies I love the chair.








This is the left side of the den. This side of the den has a small laundry room.
















This is the back wall of the den.
On this side of the den you can see my pride and joy. My 42inch plasma, self wall mounted digital hd tv.














This is the hall way to the bed rooms. Just before you get to the hallway inside the daycare room, I have installed and wall mounted a professional 130lbs. limit baby changing station & storage shelf for my wifes daycare, and I also installed 1 of the 2 interconnected fire alarms in the hall way.











This is the main bathroom / kids bathroom. The bathroom is a full bathroom (tub,shower,toilet, & sink) decorated in a sponge bob theme and I have installed a motion sensor light switch to cut on and off the lights for my forgetful brats.











This is the first bedroom / my sons bedroom.


















This is the other side of my sons bedroom.

















This is the second bedroom / my two girls bedroom.

















This is the other side of my two girls bedroom.

















This is the master bedroom. I have installed a pygmy ceiling fan and will soon be making it remote controlled.

















This is the other side of the master bed room. This side of the bed room has a small closet that cannot be seen in the picture, and the door to the bathroom / walk in closet.














This is the bathroom. Its a full bathroom (tub,shower,toilet, & sink)















This is one side of the big walk in closet with built in storage racks.

The closet is probably 7 X 7 feet roughly.
























This is another side of the walk in closet.



















The home has a detached two car garage that is 24 x 24 with power. I installed a motion sensor light and new locks.

I'll update the blog as I do more improvements such as vinyl siding, painting, replacing older model ceiling fans with new hip ones, sky lights, huge back deck, landscaping, and removal of some stumps.