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Thanks to fellow blogger TomW, my dining room is nearly finished with its renovation. There's still lots to do, but the big job of staining and sealing the wood is almost complete. This is after four months of sanding (thank you to James and all our friends who pitched in) and, of course, the...
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Sanding is fun. I mean it. It's meditative. It's an escape. It's mind numbing. It's also very painful. You name it, it hurts! Back, shoulders, biceps, triceps, forearms, hands, fingers, hips, knees, feet. Last night as I worked on the bottom trim under the sunroom window, my feet kept cramping....
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Last night I turned the gas off to my furnace and covered the floor register with butcher paper. It's warm enough now to not run the heater, and I wouldn't want a bunch of saw dust to get into the furnace. Saw dust, I write? Yes -- it's time for me to commencing phase 2 of my dining room...
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Well, folks, it's been about 7 weeks since we started stripping all the paint off the wood trim in the dining room. And we have five days until our deadline to finish. I think we can make it! We better make it, cuz we're hosting 10 people at Thanksgiving next week. Here are some photos of the...
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I am doing something I've never done before: Taking a week off of work to work on a home project! So far it's not going as planned: I've been sleeping until noon :) But today I finally got up at 9 a.m. and soon will hit the dining room for day two of stripping the paint off the wood trim and...
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Some bloggers may remember a year and two ago, when i wrote about our living room renovation. We spent months stripping every inch of paint off of every bit of wood trim in the room. Then we spent many more months sanding every inch of that wood. Then, in one day we stained it all a marvelously...
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The Home Depot will move into the long vacant building formerly occupied by Zody’s department store on Ming Avenue near Stine and Akers later this year. Click here to read story. What do you think about finally having a permanent tenant for the building, which also housed Builders...
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