We live here now!

Well, the most ironic thing about living full-time at BaHa Ranch is that I currently have very little time to blog about living full-time at BaHa Ranch! Here's a quick update on the work we've been doing since we moved down here on Saturday, May 12th:



Grey paint with sand texture added in. This is the living room wall.

Bright blue paint on the smallest wall of the bedroom.
Our old entertainment center has been re-purposed as a dresser!

I love this grey paint! It looks so soft...

The tiny fridge!
Also notice the wall behind it - OSB on top and tin roof below.

 

Wood flooring on top with tin roofing applied vertically.

We have a front door! Here is BA installing the doorknob.



Outside view of the door.

BA still has to finish upper part of wood panneling (which is actually wood flooring).

All the paint shown is either from the "oops paint" at Lowe's or from the Habitat store. The wood flooring that was used on the walls is also from Habitat, as is the front door. And the tiny fridge is a refurbished one from a Sear's outlet.

That's all for now! There is much much more to blog about, so I'll write more as soon as I can. Thanks for reading!

On the cheap...

Maybe I should just periodically make an updated post about all the cheap or free stuff that we've found! Our home design does change periodically because of the nature of our building methods: if it's cheap or free, we'll take it. It makes us especially happy if it has already been used.

Here are a few of our recent finds:

Used shower pan. $20 from Habitat for Humanity

Ikea sink. Bought new on clearance for $20

Used doors. Free for hauling away from Building Community's last build site

Wood. So much wood (this is only one of five, plus some thinner pieces).
This, too was free for hauling off from Building Community's last build site.

Small tiles. Left over from our first house
(but we recently found them in the bottom of a box, so I'm counting this as a recent find)

Large tiles. $10 for a box of 13

Not pictured but recently purchased: Two gallons of grey porch paint for the interior USB (Ha! I meant OSB) floor at $6/gallon (I'll show you pictures of what I did with it after I'm done.)

That's all for now! I want to take a minute to say a special thanks to Building Community. This is an awesome non-profit organization that renovates inner-city structures and does special build projects for other organizations. When we were at their build site, they were finishing up a cute, colorful garden shed for a community garden in Oak Cliff. You can see the shed in the first few pictures on their website. It's the one with the multicolored plastic tiles and slanted roof. The materials that we took from them were basically scraps from other building projects that needed to be moved off the build site. And we are grateful for every bit of it!