MY LATEST DIY PROJECT

[milkmansdaughter]

I hope you have a warmer door for the winter. If you had that magazine rack in there stocked with popular science, we'd have to drag my son out, lol! If the magazine's are too interesting, you might lose your work force.
The apple sauce/butter stir off sounds like fun. I used to do that with friends when we lived in Washington state.

 

[Beekissed]

I hope you have a warmer door for the winter. If you had that magazine rack in there stocked with popular science, we'd have to drag my son out, lol! If the magazine's are too interesting, you might lose your work force.
The apple sauce/butter stir off sounds like fun. I used to do that with friends when we lived in Washington state.

I'll likely make a frame for that door with plastic for winter wear. Same for the windows. I think it will truly benefit from the open concept come winter time and also from turning it to face the southern exposure...the sunlight will stream in that door all day long and warm the seat. That's a bonus!

 

[milkmansdaughter]

A warm seat in the winter is definitely a bonus.
When we were kids, we had a big front porch with half walls that faced south. In the summer it was open, but in the winter, we covered it with that plastic. Even with frigid Wisconsin winters, that porch warmed up enough on a sunny day to open the doors to the house. We had indoor plumbing and a bathroom but also had an outhouse (a 3-seater!) It was nice on those days when we were told to stay "in OR out" I'd choose the outhouse every time over a day spent inside.

 

[Beekissed]

Well...we are finally able to get back to painting the outhouse, inside and another coat on the outside. All the lava rock is installed. Mom's painting inside while I'm painting the trim prior to cutting it for placing around windows and the door.

I've also been cutting quarter round for placing over certain joints and other trim to place over certain mistakes.
Also painting the bedstead that I'll be attaching our outside sink frame to and will try to also paint the large screens I'm turning into garden gates. I'm slapping a coat of red paint on everything that's sitting still today!

I'm praying that we will finally get it done today if that is at all possible. Hard to do two coats of paint in one day, but it is very breezy today and that will help.

I've also been hauling the wood and plywood scraps to storage. I cut one left over piece for the bed of our utility trailer...will apply some 2x4s to that later so that things don't drop out of the trailer as we go along....there's a 4-6 in. gap below the side panels, right above the floor, and it makes it hard to haul anything like firewood, chips, manure, etc.

We are slowly but surely trying to clear up the multiple projects going on out here in the back yard. Maybe today will be the day we get that outhouse finished....I HOPE! Can't move on from here with that hanging around my neck, just waiting completion.

 

[Beekissed]

Still painting that outhouse...seems like that never ends right now. Mom's painting another coat inside while I'm framing the windows and door outside. It's not going so smooth on my end...already spilled a paint can on me, mis-cut a board, misjudged the size of nail I'd need for mounting the framework, got green paint on my red boards and got bug repellent in my mouth.

Mama didn't name me Grace for a good reason....

 

[sumi]

Sorry Bee, but Just think how amazing the end result will be and it will hopefully make up for the oopses.

 

[milkmansdaughter]

Ooooh I can sooooooo identify!

We're getting stuff done, lots of stuff, but seems like I'm always going back to finish a project only to have to then go back again to fix my mistakes! Good thing this stuff is for us and not to sell.. my painting lately has left MUCH to be desired. And the list of things to do is far outstripping the list of things DONE. Just yesterday my husband banned me from telling him any more ideas for the foreseeable future (I'm supposed to write new ideas in a book. Lol!)That lasted about a whole 15 minutes, and then HE was delaying getting things done because he was trying out new ideas...

I bet that's the prettiest (and maybe only??) outhouse in the closest 3 counties. Funny, you're the only person I know that would have lots of willing visitors to come see your outhouse!

 

[Beekissed]

Ooooh I can sooooooo identify!

We're getting stuff done, lots of stuff, but seems like I'm always going back to finish a project only to have to then go back again to fix my mistakes! Good thing this stuff is for us and not to sell.. my painting lately has left MUCH to be desired. And the list of things to do is far outstripping the list of things DONE. Just yesterday my husband banned me from telling him any more ideas for the foreseeable future (I'm supposed to write new ideas in a book. Lol!)That lasted about a whole 15 minutes, and then HE was delaying getting things done because he was trying out new ideas...

I bet that's the prettiest (and maybe only??) outhouse in the closest 3 counties. Funny, you're the only person I know that would have lots of willing visitors to come see your outhouse!

Probably the only, if the truth were known. I'm getting tickled with how it's all shaping up....still not done but you can start to see positive changes. Caught Mom in there painting....

 

[milkmansdaughter]

Love it! And those are the same colors we've been using I really like the yellow you used for the inside. I bet it makes it bright and cheerful.

 

[Beekissed]

Love it! And those are the same colors we've been using I really like the yellow you used for the inside. I bet it makes it bright and cheerful.

It does! Mom was unsure about that but now that she's got a couple of coats on there she's starting to see how pretty it is. In her world, outhouses are supposed to be painted brown~inside and out. That's how they've always done it...there's even a song about the "Little Brown House" regarding outhouses.

The exterior brown matches the house and woodshed, so I didn't mind that at all...I like things to blend well in the landscape.

For the interior, as for me, the last color I would want is one where bees and spiders blend in and so does crap....those are three things I don't want to sit on or near. I want to be able to SEE such things before I pull down my drawers.

The seat box is going to be celery green and the window trim inside will be the same. So, white ceiling, yellow walls, light green seat, white toilet seats.

She can have it brown all she wants outside but it's going to be a cheery squatting place inside if I have anything to do with it!