Picked this up last night; it’s a really interesting read, if you’re into this sort of thing. I’m about 5 chapters in, and am finding it really very interesting.
Another gorgeous August day, and I’m getting pretty good with a circular saw. I cut 2 44.5″ x 60″ desktops out of two 60″x60″ pieces of beautiful Baltic birch (man, that stuff weighs a ton! Thirteen…
The attic room project continues…haven’t made much physical progress on it this past week, but I’ve been doing a lot of research, redesigning other projects, getting ready to build the daybed and attached cabinet, and tweaking my desktop sketches…
I’d given myself 1 day to sand the window trim on the final 3 windows to make them flush, flat and smooth, plus do the caulking and puttying, then painting 2 coats of primer, and 2 coats of final paint.…
After working so hard for so many hours/days/weeks/months in a row that I literally made myself sick the previous week, this week I accomplished a great deal towards the end of the attic project. And I'm so, SO happy.
Painting the trim on the first window was a pain. After priming and putting on two coats, I noticed the flat pieces of trim were all wobbly, so I spent 3 hrs. sanding it down, trying to sand…