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Neat build, glad to see it moving again. :thumbup:

Probably 75% of my tools are home improvement stuff at this point. Nailers, saws, chisels, hammers, all that. That's because we bought an old house that needs work- work that there's no way I could pay somebody to do all of. Fortunately, I grew up exposed to most of that remodeling stuff (the...

Some of the 2-stroke oil mixture has a fuel stabilizer in it already, or at least I think one of the ones I bought recently did- check your label. Might be no big deal at all.

I'm liking your interior office/finished space doors and the exterior door with sidelights. A little different than what you usually see, but cool.

What the heck kind of crane/bulldozer/moon rover is that?

Never seen a square or rectangular above ground pool before. Neat. Looks like you're moving right along. For $750, that's a pretty swingin' deal on a materials kit for a 24x48 building. Yeah, labor costs would be more to disassemble then reassemble if you paid somebody, but I think if it's...

They're OK, I guess. :lol_hitti Just kidding. The car and shop are both great- hard to imagine how either could be done better. I am stealing that soffit shelf/ lighting idea!

Again, hard to say from across the internet without knowing where you are, but here's my take. Looks like you could lose the posts on the ends by hanging an LVL to span both doors. Around this part of the world, they used to do (still see it sometimes) the same thing with doubled 2x12, maybe...

Holy cow. That's a serious structure you have going on there.

Wow- nothing like free*. Best of all, it doesn't look like it was free. Siding matches and everything. I guess if that pallet racking is strong enough to hold multiple fully loaded pallets, it's stout enough to build with, so good job using what you have. Good work! Edit: *= well, free as in...

Does your ceiling slope above the sliding cabinet doors? Great results. It's amazing what painting stuff all the same color can accomplish.

I have one of the flat rectangular ones that theoretically could be closed up and carried in, but I noticed the other day that clumping cat litter comes in convenient 5-ish quart plastic jugs these days, if you were to somehow not have a spare oil jug to dump the used oil back into. Cheap...

Definitely cedar for siding -- it's a much nicer material than vinyl, and will give you more of the timberframe "look" than vinyl. And to echo all the other posts- definitely add more studs to support your header. I have a carport attached to my house that's kind of a timber frame type...

:lol_hitti Cool project.

Is that a lowered Previa? Looks like a good place- you'll be able to get a lot done in there. :bounce:

That will be a hoss when you get it done. :thumbup:

That looks salvageable to me, but step a-1-a is going to be getting those gutters cleaned out and the plants away from the foundation. Otherwise, you're always going to have problems with rot AND bugs.

Cool barn- you shouldn't run out of room to stash stuff there. Is this on a farm, part of an old farm, your currently functional farm, etc? What are you going to be working on in there? :thumbup:

Those financial realities do tend to ****, quite a bit- I spend a lot of time thinking about them, too. Tearing into something like that is the first (and hardest, yet most necessary) step, though. I have found through renovating my house in the land of the eternal shoestring budget that the...

:bounce: I will be jealous of your commute, ahem, "walk to the hobby shop" then. :thumbup: