Are you thinking of DIY or hiring someone?
@busyparent - Are you referring to rigid foam or spray foam?
My go to site for advice about insulating basements is Building Science. They may have other articles about crawl spaces, but this is the first one that came up with a google search: https://buildingscience.com/documents/information-sheets/crawlspace-insulation
Earlier this summer we built a 16ā x 16ā backyard deck. Of course then we needed a nice table for it. We wanted something simple but elegant, with a glass top. At first we couldnāt find anything quite right, until DW googled DIY glass table base or something like that and found this: http://reminiscegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/diy-table-base-for-glass-top-amazing-wehanghere-inside-design-2-home-ideas-0.jpg
DW challenged me to build it, which I did, out of ipe, the same Brazilian hardwood we used for the deck. It turned out great. The base was simple to build; itās just three equal lengths of 4" x 4" post held together by a steel connector I had a local welding shop fabricate for me. Total cost under $500; $150 for the ipe, $40 for the steel bracket, and $300 for the 60" round tempered glass top. I wouldnāt have mentioned the cost, except for the fact that at one point I was searching online for more photos of the table to see how they had done the connections, and in the process found that I could have purchased the table instead of building it, in a smaller size and a less expensive wood, for $2100. That made me very happy.
@sherpa, you probably would have been Ok without a steel connector if you made a knockoff of this iconic table:
Great job building that table! Bet you had fun in addition to saving some $$.
We decided that we wanted a fire table for our covered deck, so we just bought one by Hanamint. Mr. Bās birthday was coming up, and he wanted to celebrate in style. B-) It is unbelievable what a good motivator that was! I washed and scrubbed years of grime off that deck and stained it, then Mr. assembled the table - in pretty much one weekend! It took me weeks to finish scrubbing the remaining uncovered portion of the deck. 
I just did not have a good motivator. Plus, the deck will have to be rebuilt in 2-3 years or soā¦ thinking using Bamdeck.
True, @BunsenBurner, but that would require more skill than I possess. My project was basically screwing three pieces of lumber together.
Hereās a piece of trivia one of my kids calculated for me as I was trying to figure out how long to make each leg in the table I built: If you build a 3 dimensional base out of three boards attached at 90 degree angles to one another, the length of each leg is equal to the table height times the square root of three. I knew those fancy schmancy educations would pay off somehow.
Trigonometry is quite handy in woodworking. Mr. B built a wishing well planter from scratchā¦ no pattern or instructions; he simply calculated the angles to cut the wood. Turned out great! Then the math refresher came in handy for his GMAT test. 
I use math very often in my home improvement projects. For example, the deck we just built has a 6ā x 6ā cutout in one corner in which we installed a fire pit. The fire pit is bordered on two sides by the deck and on the outside by a curved quarter circle of steel. Physically measuring for the steel would have been very difficult, but remember that C=2piR made it was easy. And the pythagorean theorem often comes in handy. But when the math gets tough, I call the kids.
Sherpa, that is a beautiful table.
Photo #5 here looks like a much, much nicer version of the doors we just got rid of.
https://www.redfin.com/WA/Kirkland/945-1st-St-S-98033/unit-101/home/2093423
Yechhhā¦ Speaking of that listingā¦ No cats or dogs? Really??? No wonder this condo is still on the market. Forget about the early nineties dĆ©cor, if my Fido and Mittens are not welcome here, I am not buying!!! 
Thank you Mathmom for the link.
Itās always a surprise how much math our everyday carpenters and construction folks use, even those who didnāt finish high school.
I also went looking for round glass tops online and hit the $$ wall. Agree that table is a beauty.
Buckets in bathroom from post 1764 --Iām guessing that multiple people use that bathroom and this way they can keep all their toiletries separate and neatly stored. You can see a set up like this in IKEA.
Where do yāall like to position the knobs on your kitchen cabinets?
My current kitchen has them centered on the stile away from the hinge and 5" from the bottom (for upper doors) or top (for lower doors). For drawers, the knob is centered on the top drawer, and centered on the top rail for the larger lower drawers.
I havenāt found any consistent rules of thumb though.
This is how ours are, but I think they are a bit lower, maybe 4". Are you doing knobs or handles?
We are thinking about using these on our new cherry cabinet doors:
https://www.costco.com/Stainless-Steel-Cabinet-Pull-20-pack.product.100154315.html
We were told that there is no āruleā for knobs/pulls and that it was personal preference. We aligned our knobs to align with the inset detail on the cabinet and centered our pulls.
So, I have a renovation vent. The cabinets we needed to reorder because the appliance guy screwed up the hood are MIA. The manufacturer said they shipped but they never arrived to the kitchen place. They are now having to rush expedite themā¦10 business days instead of 3-4 weeks but URGH! And our master bath plumbing was supposed to be finished yesterday and the plumbers have been no shows two days in a row. My contractor has been good with communication but itās not helping the project be completed any quicker. Iām ready to lose my mind with the delays.
Yikes. That seems to always be a problem with hired help! Sometimes, they disappear into a black hole. At least when we are the ones doing the work, we know where the workers are and why they are slacking off.
We are almost finished painting the last, most challenging part of the house - the side with the fake chimney that is 2.5 stories high. The platform we bought last year came in super handy! Kudos to HD for stocking such useful tools.
Any tiny house enthusiasts here?
@-)