Lito's House Project List

A month after moving in our new house last August 2011, my wife and made a list of things that we wanted to:

Change/replace in the house.
Add to the house.
Renovate

Below are the things that I came up with:

1-Replace roof shingles
2-Extend roof to cover garage (currently the garage has a flat roof)
3-Stone edging maple tree
4-Emerald Cedar trees for privacy along the east side of the property
5-Stone edging for the East side of the property
6-Bathroom renovation
7-Hardwood flooring replacement
8-Windows replacement
9-Deck - connected to east side of house
10-Sliding door (dining room to proposed deck)
11-Tankless water heater
12-New refrigerator and range/oven (stainless)
13-Replace washer and dryer
14-New Apple iMac computer
15-Solar panel on roof connected to power grid
16-Room extension above garage
17-Convert 1 car garage to 2 car garage
18-Replace front steps
19-New entertainment center
20-Tool shed
21-Lawn mower
22-Snow thrower/blower
23-Upgrade A/C and heater system
24-Extend west side fence outward
25-Fence on the East side of the house (metal)

Here are my wife's addition:

1-Kitchen backsplash
2-Replace Yew tree with spiral tree
3-Extra room in basement
4-Lawn revitalization
5-Hallway Track Lighting

We'll it really is a long list and I am sure it will cost a lot. I hope that these projects or maybe dreams of ours materialize. I hope that some of my future post will be updates on what has been done or completed from the list.


NOTE:list was completed year 2011 and transferred/copied to my blog just now.

Apple iMac

I have been dreaming of having an iMac. One reason is so that the kids can use it to play games and in their research. Another is so that I can use my laptop when I need it. They always seem to ask if they can use it the moment I turn it on. And the last reason might have been just to finally have an Apple. I have been always a PC fan. I wanted to be able to feel how it is to have something different and find out for myself it is really better than a PC. Prices of computers are continously dropping. A couple of months ago an Apple iCore 3 with a 21.5 inch monitor and 4GB of memory is being sold at $1,299 here and $1,199 in the US. Now you can get an iCore 5 for $1,199 here and abroad. I thought that I will finally be able to own one until it had to go to the back burner as we decided to use the money in something that is really important.

All is not lost. All I need to do is be more frugal and save some money for the iMac and hopefully gain support from the Financial Controller (Hahaha!)