The Masters House

Well the weather is turning nice here in Central Texas and so the kids are wanting to be outside more and more. They are still small so letting them go play in the backyard by themselves is out of the question right now. As you can imagine they have far more energy then we do so hanging out with them outside can be a bit much.

I had thrown around the idea of adding railing around our back porch last year and my wife had thought that it was a good idea.

I mention it again a few weeks back and my wife encouraged me to get it done for the kids - so I did this past weekend.

The whole project cost right around $200 for the materials. and took me about 10 hours over 3 days to complete. One of the most time consuming tasks was making the banisters. I could have easily bought them for around $1.50 a piece but ended up making them myself for around $0.40 each.

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