Woodwork

Creating a Slat Shelf Storage System for the Garage

Published August 1, 2014

Continuing with our garage organization project, we were very taken with a slat shelf storage system found on American Woodworker via Pinterest, and decided we wanted to build something similar. My husband got started on this in June,…

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Still Prepping the Bedroom for Painting(!)

Published June 21, 2014

Day 3.5 of prepping 1 room to paint. Jeez, this part takes so long. Got the crack-patching done and retextured; pulled door casing off to do a little modification. Mostly did a lot of small wood-mongering on…

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Finally Trimmed the Window in the Workroom

Published May 19, 2014

I’ve been wanting to get this done since last December; not sure what I was waiting for. Anyway, this will be the first time I’ve cased a window, installed a windowsill, etc. I think it went pretty well.…

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Added Crown Molding to the Main Bathroom

Published May 6, 2014

So, I decided to go ahead and keep working on this bathroom. My next task was to install crown molding. I couldn’t have known in advance how many things could possibly go wrong.

First of all, my crown…

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Building a Pilaster in the Bathroom

Published April 26, 2014

I decided to add a pilaster between the green and the blue colors to visually enhance the separation of the tub area from the rest of the bathroom. I’d like to make it more pronounced and add a…

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Painting the Laundry Room and Installing Trim

Published April 8, 2014

I am finally priming and painting the laundry room after 12 years! It took about a week to prime and paint the walls and 3 doors and 5 sets of door casing. Also in that time,…

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Nearly Finished with the Storage Room Project

Published December 20, 2013

Whew!!! We started home improvement project #2 (for this year) at the end of October, and it is FINALLY 95% done! Done enough for now to move back in. Still need to trim out the windows and door, finish the…

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Clad the Beams

Published December 18, 2013

We clad the beams in my storage/workroom this weekend, and now it’s time to paint them and install the cove molding. With luck and enough hard work, I can start moving stuff back in tomorrow!

And don’t you just love…

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