BigCountry's Home improvements

[Bigcountry40]

So we bought our current house about a year and half ago and I have been steadily making improvements myself over that time period.
1st project was building shelving and cabinets in the corners on each side of the fireplace. Old owners has some store bough metal shelving that is attach to the wall. The old owners also left me tons of boards and materials, which I ended reusing.

Next was the dining room. I tore up the old disgusting blue carpet, laid down new snap in flooring then put new trim in the entire room. I also was having some drywall issues, so I ship-lapped the entire wall and painted.
Lastly since I am on paid administrative leave from work currently(I will tell that story at a later time), I decided to build a new dining room table and will be finish tomorrow .

I will try to find some pics of the rooms before we moved so ya'll can see a comparison.

 

[Dustinb80]

Looks good BC40

 

[Bigslam51]

Looks good. Where's all the deer heads?

 

[Bigcountry40]

Looks good. Where's all the deer heads?

there in my shop and my first ever still hangs at my parents house

Those are southern deer (the mounted ones)

 

[cspot]

Looks good. What flooring did you go with? Is that the Vinyl planks that are waterproof?

 

[Bigcountry40]

Looks good. What flooring did you go with? Is that the Vinyl planks that are waterproof?

Snap in laminate that is water proof and scratch resistant

 

[Mike]

Nice job bro.

 

[cspot]

Snap in laminate that is water proof and scratch resistant

What brand did you get? I want to do laminate in our cabin and I would like to get waterproof.

 

[Bigcountry40]

What brand did you get? I want to do laminate in our cabin and I would like to get waterproof.

Style selections at Lowes, we got the grey color tone, it was 99 cents a square foot. very happy with the product

 

[cspot]

Style selections at Lowes, we got the grey color tone, it was 99 cents a square foot. very happy with the product

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I will have to check it out. The price is right. I assume you have to buy a separate pad for that or does it come with one already on?

 

[5Cent]

Looking good Jon.

 

[Bigcountry40]

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I will have to check it out. The price is right. I assume you have to buy a separate pad for that or does it come with one already on?

You have to buy the underneath padding separate, I went with the pricier under padding to try to help reduce the echoing in the dining. I don't know if it made any difference.

 

[Bigcountry40]

Heres my table, I finished a week ago never did post the finished product

 

["J"]

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I will have to check it out. The price is right. I assume you have to buy a separate pad for that or does it come with one already on?

You have to buy the underneath padding separate, I went with the pricier under padding to try to help reduce the echoing in the dining. I don't know if it made any difference.

Talking to people who’ve installed and they have all said don’t skimp on the underlayment....

 

[Bigcountry40]

Talking to people who’ve installed and they have all said don’t skimp on the underlayment....

I was told the same, I actually to put down 5/8ths osb then the under layment to get the proper match height to the carpet, I couldnt be happier with the results

 

[DJK Frank 16]

Looks good man, nice work!

 

[NWOHhunter]

Nice work man!!!

 

[cspot]

Talking to people who’ve installed and they have all said don’t skimp on the underlayment....

I was told the same, I actually to put down 5/8ths osb then the under layment to get the proper match height to the carpet, I couldnt be happier with the results

Yes it is one of the keys to it working well. I know that some laminate has the underlayment already on it. I figured though if it was .99 per sf that it probably didn't.

 

[hickslawns]

Looks real nice Jon. I like that table a lot.