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…
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!
Is it me not understanding how this is SUPPOSED to work, or is it Home Depot? I have to wonder why the color from the can doesn’t match their very own color card. Has anyone else had this problem? Check…
Slow, but steady. Now I have to wait hours between each glue-up of edging to table, due to the small number of clamps we own, but it’s going well. I’ll use pipe and/or bar clamps for the other…
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.…
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…
No, not art, sadly; something much less abstract, more concrete — or should I just say wood? I just finished the second coat on five more pieces of trim (baseboard and casing); I still have about 10 more…
The walls in the attic room are basically done. I finally got them primed and painted in these two tints of turquoise. In the future, I look forward to getting the flooring we envision — a black and white checkerboard…
