THE PAINTING & LANDSCAPING PROJECT
THE VISION
IT’S CLASSIC. QUALITY WORKMANSHIP. LOW MAINTANANCE. CRISP, CLEAN LINES. FREE FROM COLOR. THE BIRDS WILL PROVIDE THE COLOR. THE BUILDING IS UNDERSTATED AND CLASSY, ALLOWING THEM TO SHINE.
BIRDS AND BEAKS
MAIN BUILDING EXTERIOR VISION BOARD
Year
2024
PHASES OF THE PROJECT
1. CLEANING
To kick this project off, we need to prep the building to be painted.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
Powerwashing the whole building
Remove climbing vines from building
Remove climbing vines from ground
Remove wood panels from front of building
Taping off windows/doors
Weedwacking base of building to ensure we can paint the entire thing.
Scrape all stickers and decals off doors and windows
COST: $0.00(But lots of hard work!)
2. PAINTING
The next phase involves actually painting the building. The entire building will be painted white, and then the garage doors will be painted with the wood kits to make them look like wood.
Each of the windows and door casings will be painted black.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
Painting Building
Painting Windows
SUPPLIES & COSTS
Paint Sprayer (already have one)
Paint (white) $500.00
Paint (black) $150
Paint (wood grain) $120
Tape $50
Paint masks for windows $40
TOTAL COST PROJECTED: $860.00
3. Gutters
Currently, the building has no system for carrying water away from the structure.
By installing new gutters and downspouts throughout the entirety of the building, not only will our landscaping be protected, but the building itself will benefit as well.
We will DIY the installation, so we won’t have any cost to actually install it.
ESTIMATED COST: $1200.00
4. SIDING
Rather than put up new wood that will need to be re-finished every year, we found that the wood-look siding is actually a less expensive option since we can eliminate stain and sealant.
For the front, we’ll replace the wood with siding. For the back we’ll paint the wood black.
We will also be replacing the wood wraps around the pillars on the front porch, by color matching and staining new wood planks to match.
ESTIMATED COST: $1700.00
5. LANDSCAPING
The next phase involves edging and digging down 2-3 inches all the way around the building, approximately 4 foot out and away from the building, and laying down weed barrier, and mulch.
This should give us some fill dirt for the area near the volunteer entrance to create a paver walk way leading out to the parking lot.
We’ll plant hastas and small greenery bushes all the way around the property. They’re easy to maintain, do great with any amount of light, and are fairly inexpensive.
The mulch, we’ll have a landscape company deliver rather than buying individual bags.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Digging/Leveling Ground
Distributing Mulch
Edging/Measuring Landscape Beds
Laying down weed barrier
Supplies Cost Estimates:
Mulch - $800-$1000
Plants - $200
Weed barrier - $150.00
Pavers - $150.00
Total Cost Estimate for Landscaping Phase:
$1500
INSPIRATION FOR WORDS AND LIGHTING ON TOP OF OLD SALOON FRONT.
6. ADD A LITTLE SPICE
These plans for accessories and details are what will bring the entire plan to life. Here’s the plans:
SIGNAGE
We’ll create our own signage for the front of the building. The plan is to hang on pipe the words BIRDS AND BEAKS over the old saloon store front, on top of the siding. The letters will be mounted on drilled piping to hold them out from the building, allowing them to be backlit with LED strips.
On the peak over the front porch, we’ll put the bird that’s in our logo in a circle, and backlight him as well.
Approximate cost:
Wood/Materials for signs: $200
Outdoor Lighting for Front of Building: $500
PLANTERS & LIGHTS
In front of the main building, and then in-between each barn door we will create cinder block planters about 3 foot x 3 foot. In the ones in the front, we’ll space them so that if someone jumped the curb (again) and we’re unlucky enough to have them miss us, they will be stopped by the planters before they drive into the building.
On the north side of the main building, between the facility and the big 40x100 pole barn, that will be the main parking area for volunteers and adopters. We’ll build those same planters and place them in between the bays of the barn, and put 12 foot poles in them with cement to act as light hooks for outdoor Edison lights to criss cross over the driveway to light up the grounds when we’re having craft shows and events (and for our own safety).
Lights: $150
Poles: $50
Cinder Blocks/Wood for DIY planters: $100
Soil: $100
Ferns we’ll probably kill yearly :D : $50.00
SMALL DECK FOR WELL PIT
There’s a small, 8x8 area of concrete between the two buildings that houses all the electrical for the old and new wells. The issue is people keep parking on that, and we’re concerned someone is going to crash into it.
We want to build a small little deck over that which can be moved if we need access it, and maybe put a picnic table or something on it, and put the pavers and such around that.
Approximate cost: $500
PHASE 6 TOTAL EST: $1650.00
7. THE DRIVEWAY
The final phase of the main building/drive project is the driveway. That, we’ll likely get started on now, and will finish last.
We have a gravel/limestone drive, that from years and years of driving large trucks on with the previous tenants have created a mess of giant craters and pits that need to be filled.
Our team is currently working on a solution for dragging and leveling the drive, that we can likely do fairly inexpensively with the help of Andrea and Thom, a couple of our regular, awesome volunteers.
When all is finished, and the yards are edged and we have all the landscaping and such done, we’ll find a landscape company, and get all the quotes and see what the best plan is to re-gravel the driveway.
We’re not sure on the pricing for this yet, and we don’t want to call for quotes until we’re closer to that part of the project so that pricing will remain consistent.
HELP US MAKE THE OUTSIDE LOOK LIKE IT DESERVES WHATS INSIDE.
Make a donation.
The total estimated cost to completely makeover the outside of our facility, WITHOUT re-graveling the driveway is:
