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  1. #1
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    Default Done. My DIY loungeroom. Never again.

    All finished - right down to the little white caps that hide the screw heads inside the carcasses. First time ever I think I've finished a DIY project completely.
    I got some good advice here over the last 6 months. Thanks for that.
    It's a 5m x 5m room.
    Down one side is a set of drawers, a built-in gas fireplace, and a cabinet that hides the TV. The drawer fronts and cubboard doors are in gloss poly. The top of the unit is gloss laminate - I went with that finish rather than get it painted because it should wear better.
    Above the heater is a vent I made up from laminated 20mm wide strips with 20mm spaces - I didn't want an aluminium grill or anything like that. The heater sits on a 60mm slate hearth that I got a local stone guy to make for me.
    The black strip along the front and down the right hand side of the bench is 100 x 60mm steel painted black. The splayed hearth surround is also 6mm plate steel. I made them up out in the backyard and painted them with BBQ paint and a little foam roller.
    Under the window, are two book shelves from 32mm veneered board. They were a killer - long and heavy.
    Instead of timber uprights, I made up 6mm black steel pieces that I set back and rebated top and bottom. They are not really visible, which is what I wanted i.e. it reads as two long shelves with no supports.
    The other side of the room is cupboards with the killer end curve.
    The floor is cypress pine, I stripped the old gloss poly and stained it very dark and used a finish called OSMO - hard wax oil. (It took me 9 hours to sand the floor with my Rotex 150. What an amazing thing they are.)
    In the past when I've done DIY stuff, I reckon the end result has been about 70% as good as what a professional would achieve. This time I'm close to 100%. I think I've peaked. Of course, it took ages.
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    Hi Scott
    What a great job you have done. To continue for 6 months must have been difficult as well. All the best to you, you must be very pleased.


    Cheers Jerry

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    Thanks Jerry,
    Yes, I am pleased with the result. None of my mates do much DIY stuff and have no idea how challenging it can be. My kids certainly don't get it. So I post the odd project here where people appreciate it.
    Everything takes me a fair while because I only get a chance to do stuff on the weekends - and not every weekend. And because I don't have a panel saw or anything like that - just a Makita circular saw and my trusty aluminium straight edge.
    But like many DIY guys, I spend the week at work planning for the weekend and looking forward to it. Guys that do this stuff all the time probably look forward to weekends as a time when they can down tools.
    I have a mate who is a quantity surveyor and he costs up a lot of high end work for architects. He did some calcs on that loungeroom and reckons with the tricky bits - steel, curved panel etc - it would have cost me $21,600 to pay someone to do the job. I spent about $6,000 on materials. So that's pleasing also.
    Onto the next project now - the shed extension.
    Scott

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    Nice work
    Bob

    "If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life."
    - Vic Oliver

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