delliott00
New Member
Just thought I'd share a bit of a slide show from our latest project, a fixer upper we bought on the TX coast. Being big waterholics and boat crazed people, we always knew we wanted a place where we could park a boat right outside the house. So a few years back we started saving & planning for that, thinking it would take us 5-10yrs to get to the point where we could start looking.
The market down there was really hit by the housing market issues, and the stock market did its part, so we decided to move our plans up a few years and get that piece of the ocean now while the prices are good.
Anyways, here is the reason we bought the place:
This is the view from my deck:
Unfortunately, this was what the inside looked like. Had not been changed since 1983!!!!!
However, since I'm pretty much fearless about trying to DIY, I said lets gut the place and do it over. And save money by doing it all ourselves.
Here is what it looks like after about 2 months of working on it (mostly on weekends only). The only thing we didn't do is the new tile. We did all the demolition, kitchen cabinets, appliances, fireplace, painting, electrical, lighting, etc.
Here is that same pic without the flash so you can see the view:
Of course, we could not tolerate staying there and watching boats cruise by all day long so we decided we had to have one. Considering we won't really be doing overnighters, just cruising and fishing, we decided to get a Sea Hunt 22. Unfortunately, we'll probably sell our 320DA Sea Ray (which we use on Lake Travis) but I'd like to get a 280DA or similar to replace it, since we'll probably be staying on the lake a lot less.
I'll continue with some more pics next message....
-Dave
'04 Sea Ray 320DA
'07 Sea Hunt 220
The market down there was really hit by the housing market issues, and the stock market did its part, so we decided to move our plans up a few years and get that piece of the ocean now while the prices are good.
Anyways, here is the reason we bought the place:
This is the view from my deck:
Unfortunately, this was what the inside looked like. Had not been changed since 1983!!!!!
However, since I'm pretty much fearless about trying to DIY, I said lets gut the place and do it over. And save money by doing it all ourselves.
Here is what it looks like after about 2 months of working on it (mostly on weekends only). The only thing we didn't do is the new tile. We did all the demolition, kitchen cabinets, appliances, fireplace, painting, electrical, lighting, etc.
Here is that same pic without the flash so you can see the view:
Of course, we could not tolerate staying there and watching boats cruise by all day long so we decided we had to have one. Considering we won't really be doing overnighters, just cruising and fishing, we decided to get a Sea Hunt 22. Unfortunately, we'll probably sell our 320DA Sea Ray (which we use on Lake Travis) but I'd like to get a 280DA or similar to replace it, since we'll probably be staying on the lake a lot less.
I'll continue with some more pics next message....
-Dave
'04 Sea Ray 320DA
'07 Sea Hunt 220