Stay at home projects

skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
Wife and I talked about a fire place forever...we love them.  Decided time was right.  Just finished the stone work today...what you think?



Let's see your non boat projects while you are stuck at home.
2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3
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  • Pat310Pat310 Member Posts: 573 ✭✭✭
  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Looks great!!
    2008 330EC
  • Liberty44140Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey that fireplace looks awesome! 
    07' Cruisers 390 (Previous Rinker's: 06' 342EC & 01' 310FV)

  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    Thanks!
    2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3
  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    Very cool.  Have you considered a curved screen?  At work I have a 49" curved...no bezels is really nice.
    2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3
  • GMSLITHOGMSLITHO Member Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭✭
    And I thought x box was cool 
  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 7,765 mod
    The center monitor is new, and it's curved.  The two outside screens are older flat panels.  
  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 7,765 mod
    Notice the poster at the top left ... F1 cars and yachts at Monaco!
  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice @LaRea
    2008 330EC
  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice projects both of you. I'd share my stay at home project but I don't think anybody wants to see the stack of empty beer cases in my garage....first thing anybody would ask is "How many people live with you?" but it's all just me.  :|
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 7,765 mod
    @skennelly that's nice work.  Real stone?
  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    i have not done many home projects for myself but i did get a call when the admirals mom had a water leak after a tractor bush hogging her field got too close to the cap.  This was a fun muddy repair.  
  • skennellyskennelly Member Posts: 2,196 ✭✭✭✭
    @LaRea - It's travertine ledger stone...basically a stone veneer.  Yes real stone.  Goes together like puzzle pieces.  Does require cutting with a tile saw but very easy to work with.
    2002 - 270FV Mag 350 B3
  • GMSLITHOGMSLITHO Member Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭✭
    I installed some recessed lighting in my living room and new paint 
  • McGarnicleMcGarnicle Member Posts: 245 ✭✭✭
    @LaRea Very nice setup! I keep trying to justify something similar for flight and racing sims, but keep talking myself out of it.
  • mattiemattie Member Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭✭
    skennelly said:
    Wife and I talked about a fire place forever...we love them.  Decided time was right.  Just finished the stone work today...what you think?



    Let's see your non boat projects while you are stuck at home.
    Looks good, we did that almost exactly in our previous house. Wife loved it.
    Only issue is we could only have the fireplace on for about 20 min.
    Then it would turn into Willhounds sauna. Basements hold heat like a bandit.



    246BR, 276BR, H310BR current
  • MarkBMarkB Member Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭✭✭
    LaRea said:
    After my house fire last July, I moved back into the house just as COVID-19 hit in March, so I've had no shortage of projects to work on.  Here's the latest:  I'm almost done rebuilding my racing simulator.  I still need to align the screens and tidy up some cables, but you get the general idea.  A boy and his toys.  


    That is hard core! Nice ... I have a fold up setup that I put in front of my huge projection screen ... pretty good too, but nothing like that!

    Boat Name: King Kong

    "Boat + Water = Fun"

  • MarkBMarkB Member Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I've done a few smaller projects, mostly landscaping, some re-organizing ... but my "best" project by far is I took my perfectly good front lawn (in fact it hasn't looked better in years, due to some prep in the fall) ... and I decided, let's make it more perfect, more green ... let's add some fertilizer ... a couple of days later, brown spots ... I guess I spilled too much here and there. Well, did I ever make a mess ... had to rip out those spots and replant, and now working to get that new grass to take.  At least I'm not bored ... lol.

    Boat Name: King Kong

    "Boat + Water = Fun"

  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 7,765 mod
    I used to have a 3-screen rig with three PS3 consoles.  Then I got a PS4 with a VR headset instead of triple screen, but didn't like it.  The current rig is an i7 PC with an NVIDIA RTX-2060 video card that is screaming fast.  

    Next house project:  fireplace mantle, which actually looks a lot like the one @skennelly has.  It was due for installation this week, but the crew chief got sick.  They think he has the Rona.  
  • IanIan Member Posts: 2,869 ✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    LaRea said:
    Notice the poster at the top left ... F1 cars and yachts at Monaco!
    Okay now that’s 3 Americans I know that know what F1 is.... :)

    Bucket list item for me - go to Monaco for the race and sit up in the hill.

    Regards,

    Ian

    The Third “B”

    Secretary, Ravena Coeymans Yacht Club

    https://www.rcyachtclub.com/

  • Aqua_AuraAqua_Aura Member Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's the first key on the upper left corner of a keyboard. 
    1997 Bayliner 3988
  • WillhoundWillhound Member Posts: 4,208 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mika Häkkinen a fellow Finnlander tops the list of all time great F1 drivers.
    "Knot Quite Shore" - 2000 FV270 (Sold)
    2018 Cherokee 39RL Land Yacht (Sorry...)
  • mattiemattie Member Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭✭
    icoultha said:
    LaRea said:
    Notice the poster at the top left ... F1 cars and yachts at Monaco!
    Okay now that’s 3 Americans I know that know what F1 is.... :)

    Bucket list item for me - go to Monaco for the race and sit up in the hill.
    Wife & I went to Paris & Monaco bout 10 years ago - room was right over the race tunnel. Spectacular place. We were there a week before the GP. I walked the track during set up.....pretty sweeet.

    FYI: $35 USD for a rum & Coke. $200 for 2 cafe sandwiches & 2 Oranginas (no booze). 

    Heads up if you go.
    Burn cash like crazy.



    246BR, 276BR, H310BR current
  • PickleRickPickleRick Member Posts: 4,038 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2020
    And they rioted at Woodstock 98 or 99( i can't remember the year) because of 5 dollar water bottles.
  • aero3113aero3113 Member Posts: 9,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WoW! That’s crazy @mattie
    2008 330EC
  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 7,765 mod
    The poster is as close as I'll get unless I hit all six numbers.  
  • mattiemattie Member Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭✭
    Re organized the storage room in the basement. Boat stuff/ski stuff/sled stuff.
    There is like 9 bins of boat ****.


    246BR, 276BR, H310BR current
  • GMSLITHOGMSLITHO Member Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭✭
    Wow that’s tidying up 
  • LaReaLaRea Member, Moderator Posts: 7,765 mod
    @mattie it looks like a West Marine store.
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