What is the biggest Do-It-Yourself project you have done on your home?

Wow, that sounds a lot like us! Someone had done a cheap flip on it in the past and done a lot of half-a**ed cosmetic fixes that we ended up having to tear out to really fix things properly. We bought ours 2 1/2 years ago and have already redone the bathroom (new drywall, sink, vinyl, restored the footed tub, etc), re-finished the ceilings upstairs, rewired and insulated the attic,totally redid the kitchen and have painted lots of walls. We have saved a ton of money by doing most of it ourselves (pros rewired the attic). It takes longer, and is a bit of a mess sometimes, but I could easily be paying someone by the hour for exactly the same results, so I'm happy to put up with the inconvienience. :-)

Okay, I'm starting to think the same people renovated both our houses at one time. Every single room except the kitchen and bath in our house had cheap paneling put up over the plaster walls, too! We opted to paint over most of it, though, and it came out quite good.

I imagine there's an immense sense of self-satisfaction every time you sink into your bathtub in the room you created from your own tastes. I'm hoping that we can get started this summer. The previous owners put up paneling everywhere instead of drywall, so we're either going to fix their crazy panel job so we can paint and wall paper over it, or tear it down and put up drywall. My husband is opting toward the first one since he works with drywall all day at his job.

Painting the outside of my house is something I don't really want to do, because I have a two story house and I am afraid of heights! ;-) Thanks for your response.

Sounds like you keep pretty busy, too! There is so much satisifaction from doing it yourself.

It seems taht everyone always decides to insulate their attics in hot weather, too, doesn't it? I've finally decided not to do work in my attic if it is more than 60F outside, because it is just too miserable!

Oh, that's too bad about the deck! I guess that's the risk of DIY, I'm aware of that possibility every time we start a new project, that we might have to hire a pro to finish it. Hope the carpet goes better.