A little DIY project!

Let me begin this by saying I am not a handy man, do-it yourself kinda guy.  Heather often becomes frustrated with me because of this, she would like it if I was able to fix things around the house.  Some of my friends are great at doing project in there home's like wiring, putting in cabinets, flooring etc...  That is just not me, I can do some simple things around the house and with the cars, but big projects, like finishing my bathroom that is currently functional, but nowhere near complete I am just not able to do.  But I have noticed that when it is something I like, I can pretty much do anything, even on a low budget.  Take for instance this little DIY project I did when we first moved into the house.

  I had always wanted a Koi pond, so when we bought the house I was excited to put one in.  Now keep in mind I looked around at different place to see what is was going to cost me then figured what size pond I wanted, well let just say it was going to be expensive.  So this caused me to start thinking, which is a good thing in the case.  I realized how much I had to spend and then began to plan it out.  So I guess to start this out my big plan would have cost probably about $3500 to $4000 to do it big like I wanted.  My budget for this little project however was only about $150, so I really had to think this out.  I wanted a pond that would be about 1000 gallons and about 4' by 8'.  So long story short, I was able to do just that, with in my budget.  I used landscape timbers, 6millimeter black plastic,which cost me about $40 bucks, got a pump for about $80, and added a DIY filter box for about $20.  That completed the pond, I then began looking for ways to improve it, the next summer I bought some lights, and a UV sterilizer on clearance at local pet store for $30 each, (would have been $350 reg retail) which really put the finishing touches on it.  We did buy some koi's for the pond slowly and didn't pay more than $10 for a new fish.  This summer we are going to double the size of the pond, again on a low budget so stay tuned I will blog that project when it begins.  My next post I will tell you about another DIY project that I am currently working on.  

I guess the point of this and what has me thinking is that if we share ideas like this we can do just about anything even on a small budget.  So let me throw this idea out to you, you may be good at something that others are not, let's share some idea's, and help each other out.  If you can think of some ways to help finish my bathroom please share them with me, or if you have a project you would like to do let me know about it maybe I can help you.