Almost done with it

Done

Nice

@Envian nice bro, that looks good

Ty 👍🏻

Nice man

That's beautiful

Our garage stairs were built poorly and looked like trash, so my dad and I built in some more support and then put some timbertech composite deck boards on for the treads because I have a bunch of it just sitting around

We bought our house as a foreclosure and have flipped the entire house while living in it. We’ve done that a few times now with different homes we have lived in while moving across the country

Extremely trad, tbh

That's awesome man!

@Envian sweet bro, I'm glad your dad taught you how to be good at being a man. 😁

Damn

I posted these on another discord already, but I figured I’d share them here too. This is some before/after of our house. It’s a bit of a mess in the new pics because I took them right after my sisters grad party was over lol

My dad and I had to make the cabinet for the double oven from scratch when we moved the fridge over

We also made all of the cabinet doors ourself as a temporary solution while we paint and repair the old ones so that the hinges can be the kind that are hidden from the outside. We also have to make two extra doors to match the old ones for the new cabinet before we can put them back in

The hard part is that all the woodwork in the house was custom and finding a router bit that matches is seemingly impossible for some of the things we need to do

Bro, that looks good, is your dad a carpenter/cabinet maker? And yeah they make a million router bits but not that one you need.
I needed a bit to match the profile on old windows, you figure they would have one by now, but I have to do it by hand. I found the old plane they used on ebay, total game changer. I also picked up a Craftsman iron plane, it's 52 different planes in one. It's really neat.

Yeah he used to be a carpenter / stonemason but now him and I both work in technology

Very nice @Envian

@Envian that's awesome, glad to see he's passing his skills down to you. Your kitchen cabinetry is beautiful.

Check this out, I was looking for a cheap purple Martin birdhouse, I found these sweet birdhouses for the middle class bird.
https://www.sourgrassbuilt.com

So here's an old hinge, these are extremely common. I run into them everywhere I go.

That's run of the mill stuff, what happened to pride in ones work? Why are they all polished metal these days, zero thought put in new ones. Who cares if it's hidden 90% of it's life.

Technology = lazy ass society

Probably half the reason we can't figure out how the ancient people moved massive stones. And built the "impossible".
Every show you watch or "expert talk" acts as our ancestors were dumber than us. We(modern people) are the dumb ones.

Like this, just a small collection of sash locks and lifts.

The brass one on the 3rd row is close to what you can buy today. Not much variation, but these old ones are so cool. It's a window lock, but there's pride in that lock.

@RevStench that's great man. Trying to put beauty into the little things I think is a big part of a good life

I love those window latches, it's hard to conceive of that kind of effort being put into things today

I agree. Those are sash locks and no one will see them, you'll hardly notice them but when you do, they are beautiful. Go look at you're vinyl windows and tell me how much thought was out into that haha.
I don't care for the "modern look". And I really don't care for the historic meshed with modern. Beautiful wood work and polished stainless steel don't go together