Shit you built with your own two hands (picture thread)

**brice618** · 09-20-2011, 10:06 AM

Robert Venturi would be proud.

**BigDaddy** · 09-20-2011, 02:44 PM

Tuckerman's main house:

**BigDaddy** · 09-21-2011, 08:45 PM

I built this loft for my now teenage daughter last fall (gave her room for a study nook):

Then, still in need of a closet, I built her this for X-mas:

I stole the space from above our stairs...

She wanted a mirror to put on makeup... oh, oh!:

Drawers:

And lots of storage (three feet deep, five feet high and six feet long):

She loves it (and picked the colors), so I'm happy!

**wicked_sick** · 09-21-2011, 10:14 PM

You're a pretty cool dad

**MakersTeleMark** · 09-21-2011, 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by BigDaddy

Tuckerman's main house:

Would really like to see more of this. It's very intriguing.

**BigDaddy** · 09-22-2011, 04:41 AM

Thanks WS. (I kind of like doing it, too.)

Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark

Would really like to see more of this. It's very intriguing.

Its Frank Gehry's own home that got his career seriously jump started: Frank House

**EarlyWood** · 09-22-2011, 06:00 AM

Not too shabby BigD...the Wright influences are so obvious (and well done)...gonna be tough to follow that one up :-)
I'm going back to the drawing board..

**brice618** · 09-22-2011, 08:44 AM

If someone wants to give me 10 grand I'll build a house (a small house) and post very tedious TR's along the way. Takers? You know you want to. Consider it grant, for a starving architect.

**That was Pontus** · 09-26-2011, 03:22 PM

Heh, more like unbuilt....

And then rebuilt....

That bitch better be back this winter.

**Art Shirk** · 09-27-2011, 02:41 PM

Well, it wasn't my hands exactly. Born today. 8lbs, 14.7 oz. Big Girl!

**MakersTeleMark** · 09-27-2011, 02:44 PM

HUGE CONGRATS!

**skifishbum** · 10-18-2011, 10:20 AM

Can't find the garden thread but spent a lot of time this summer buildin and growin shizz w/ my own two manos

I hate payin for rocks but hard to find quality flag layin round

upper patio and herb garden went in last summer and this summer the return was awesome only lost a few popies and a rosemary or two. Basil gets replanted every year but everything else is perianial

mr. stripey=yum

**brice618** · 10-18-2011, 10:22 AM

Looks good. Can't wait to have my own place with total control in the backyard.

**chuckh** · 10-20-2011, 01:19 PM

The wind and weather epically failed to cause the original construction decks to fall off my house, so I (finally, my wife says) took matters into my own hands.

I removed the original 3 (12'x10') redwood decks and replaced them with 3 Brazilian Tigerwood decks.

Here's what I started with:

The three original decks were replaced with: 10.6' x 9.6' daylight basement walkout deck, a 36' x 12' main deck and a 12'x12' foot upper deck with full gutter system and an Idaho blue stone patio.

A picture story of the construction process may be found here.

**skifishbum** · 10-20-2011, 01:39 PM

^^^ nice My fatherinlaw and I put those metal verticAl railings on the inlaws deck. I reALLY LIKE HOW THEY LOOK AND STOKED TO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM WARPIN, CUPPIN AND FUCKIN
UP

**chuckh** · 10-20-2011, 01:45 PM

Originally Posted by skifishbum

^^^ nice My fatherinlaw and I put those metal verticAl railings on the inlaws deck. I reALLY LIKE HOW THEY LOOK AND STOKED TO NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM WARPIN, CUPPIN AND FUCKIN
UP

Thanks! I hear you, the original fir balusters were rotted and a PITA to maintain. And the big plus is that the shape doesn't cause a blind spot when viewed at an angle.

They are powder coated aluminum and I don't have to maintain them.

**khakis** · 10-22-2011, 11:41 PM

made a ski gate

**jce338** · 11-02-2011, 06:08 PM

Built a bar/kegerator/shelf for the Vail rental. Pretending we're still in college.

**Roxtar** · 11-02-2011, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by jce338

I LOVE that poster.

**rideit** · 11-04-2011, 01:30 PM

Going for uderstated here. The pic doessn't do justice, really. It is a nice burled cherry face, and the other bits are ball bearings, chainring bolts, and presta caps. Note the inset chain. I really like this direction, I am trying just use the bike thing as a small part, not the overwhelming part, visually.

Thoughts?

**EarlyWood** · 11-05-2011, 06:40 AM

Originally Posted by rideit

Going for uderstated here. The pic doessn't do justice, really. It is a nice burled cherry face, and the other bits are ball bearings, chainring bolts, and presta caps. Note the inset chain. I really like this direction, I am trying just use the bike thing as a small part, not the overwhelming part, visually.

Thoughts?

thoughts?

Fucking beautiful

**rideit** · 11-07-2011, 02:07 PM

Here is some perspective on my pricing (sorry to thread-hog).

I am going to guess that what I am doing takes way more time than these. (They go for $300-$400). I think I can do better.

The vision of where I want to go with this is coming into clearer focus...

**BigDaddy** · 11-07-2011, 05:31 PM

^ummmm, that's like comparing a Porche to a VW. You are the 911.

**rideit** · 11-07-2011, 05:50 PM

Thanks. I am being blown away by the stuff I am seeing these days, now that my eyes are open to the exceptional stuff (not the above). I am feeling the need to step it up, and make some serious pieces...

**WK Monoskier** · 11-07-2011, 06:20 PM

Built a Jockey Box. About $600 bucks in parts, utilizing two 75' stainless steel coils, new co2 tank, faucets, taps, regulator, bulkhead fittings, hoses and 48qt. cooler, one crudely drawn schematic, etc. So far one keg of Stone IPA and one keg of Sublimely Self Righteous Ale has traveled through the left side tap and some girly yellow fizzy shit through the other. Fill with six bags of ice and pour!!