My wife would hate it 
her toxic trait is wanting a house that looks like its not lived in. I love it, function above all else and it looks like it fits your personality
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Kitchen looks super cosy and full of life. Beautiful! (That counter top expecially is a banger!) 
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Thank you folks! I am just glad it done
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I am kind of surprised. The pipe was her ideaā¦i guess I am slowly rubbing off on her.
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I got some rough cut hard maple from a coworker that I planned to make trim out of. I let it air dry for a year.
Then I ran it all through this little planer quite a few times to bring it to 5/8 of an inch.
More to come
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It planed out pretty nice. Next I had to build a jig to get a straight edge and I also built an extension for my table saw fence.
Now all 90ish boards have 1 straight edge, Iāll rip them to whatever width i decide and Iām gonna glue some panels together also. This has been fun so far.
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Before and after countertop marble paint with epoxy. I bought the kit 9 months ago when my mom first bought this trailer for us to live in. Then we moved here beginning of January and it took me until NOW to finally just do the damn thing!! LOL Very happy with the results! Donāt get me started on this backsplash Iāve also been working on for 5 months.
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Well I finally get to post my own update on this thread and Iām excited about it! Lol
I havent posted the other updates on here that Iāve done as it didnāt seem super post-worthy. Iāve done lots of painting here, including painting my first cabinet ever in my bathroom as a test project before I started on the kitchen cabinets. Iāve installed a new toilet, shower head and a spigot outside. Installed shelves. Cut up some fallen trees in the river. Installed a new wood stove and a pellet stove (with help on the piping it in), I cleaned my own chimney and installed a satellite on the roof. These were all pretty big things for me as Iād never done any of that before (besides painting walls) but this transformation Iām pretty proud of! Itās taken a few months of work but itās lovely to see a project come together and get finished.
It makes me think of my recovery. Until I saw the pictures of how it used to be, because I made changes gradually I didnāt realize how much had actually been transformed. Itās nice to see those reminders of what it was before and that every step along the way counts.
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Yo that looks fantastic!
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maple! Love maple, love the milling, love the 1357733 dollars saved!
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Yo go girl.
More open, light, spscious and the stainless appliances look fantastic.
Amazing what we are actually capable of!
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Oh I love that!!! So creative!! Great job, it looks amazing!!
And so does your kitchen @MandiH !! Just love the transformation!!
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Absolutely beautiful transformation! Love it!
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I looooooove your countertops! I tried to paint my countertop in my bathroom and I didnāt love it but itās an oil paint so Iām scared to paint over it again too. What product did you use for this if you donāt mind my asking?
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Not much but it only took me like 2 hours which is great cause I dont have time for much these days with 60-70 hour weeks. Built in pantry shelves, way sturdier, 4" deeper and not nearly as cheap looking lol. Only cost about $125 bucks.
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This is the kit I used. It was very easy! You could just buy the same kind of epoxy thatās in this kit (it says itās bubble resistant ) and use that over whatever you already painted and you could probably save a lot of money! Just be sure to put plastic around your cabinets and on the floor where it will drip.
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Wow! They look great!! I wish I was handy like this, I would put shelves everywhere!
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Nothing to it but to do it! The power tools help too lol. Just a couple sheets of pine ply, furring strips, 2x4s and trim.
They still need paint, possibly an veneer on the top of shelf. I donāt know, I make the stuff and let the wife pick the aesthetics.
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Just built me a windmill! Functionless, but Ms. Monkey wanted one out by the garden. I bought a kitā¦glad I didā¦
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Oh I love this transformation and the floor!
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