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Memorial House Style: Rustic-Art-Somethingorother
As a general rule, I spend my time here talking about projects, and I expect that if you use any bit of my advice at all it’s to take what I’ve done and make it your own. Which is why I very rarely...
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Working Portraits
While we will have a pretty thorough record of all of the construction at Memorial through this website and my incessant picture taking, I’ve been challenging myself to really pause in the the work to...
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Wood, Meet Ceiling
I am thisclose to being done with plastering the walls in the Station, and in keeping with the tradition of starting a new project before I finish the previous one, hey, look what we did this weekend!...
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Here to Help
I almost never look at the suggested google searches as I type in my how-to and power tool related queries (and they are many) but apparently everyone on the internet but me has figured out that when...
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Insanity Continues
With the dates for the Hauling Ass Tour of 2010, and ground-breaking for the house bearing down upon us, I’ve begun repeating the coming weeks (and whats expected of us) in a desperate kind of litany…...
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Wood Ceiling 101: How To Install Tongue & Groove Paneling
The easiest way to describe this is “like installing a wood floor, but upside-down.” Even if you’ve never done a wood floor before, the concept is pretty simple– take board, attach to ceiling. Rinse...
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Without Words
Maybe I’ve mentioned this, but one of the side benefits of four-hour long contractors classes twice a week is that it gives us 240 minutes of uninterrupted time to think about house things. Very often...
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Picking up a different kind of paintbrush…
Approximately seven weeks ago, one of my closest friends (who lives a state away) brought this little bundle of CUTE into the world: When she was planning for this little bear’s arrival, I volunteered...
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Where I Got It
Back when the temperature was above freezing and we weren’t buried under a foot of snow, MysteryMan had a bunch of friends over to Memorial for a bonfire. When I copped to building those handy picnic...
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We’re T-minus 1 day until the great donkey shed building adventure begins, and I’ve spent this week doing my Actual Real Job, finishing the tile in my basement, and tracking down some Carhartt bibs for...
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