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The Histories: March 2013
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Thursday, March 21, 2013. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Angela and Guillaume's blog. Quoted from Deresiewicz “The chance to find you. There was an error in this gadget.
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The Histories: November 2009
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Friday, November 06, 2009. Installation of Hanging pot hanger. In this post I install a half-moon shape pot hanger. The pot hanger I have had for years was wall-mounted with a bracket. However there is no place convenient in my kitchen to mount it on a wall. Here is how I hung it from the ceiling using chains. It took an hour and a half (or three hours if you count the time at Home Depot and on this blog.). First locate four points where it will hang from ceiling:. With the hardware in place, chain lengt...
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The Histories: January 2010
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Friday, January 15, 2010. Is 4 times of painting enough to get the color right? This post is about what I think are the finally final living room and kitchen/hall colors, after trying at least four colors per room over the last year and a half. In these pictures that follow, apologies for the mess everywhere but the walls. It will be a couple weeks before I clean these rooms up. Darker photoshop version below. Kitchen, round 4. Links to this post. Sunday, January 03, 2010. New chair rail for living room:.
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The Histories: August 2010
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Monday, August 30, 2010. Kitchen cabinet door replacement/painting. In this post, the curved upper cabinet doors are replaced with new style cabinet doors, and all kitchen cabinets are painted. The following pictures are before hosting a party last weekend, when the house is always cleanest. Painted cabinets in picture below. Same exact view as above, 2 1/2 years later. Compare the square upper cabinet door tops to the previous curved. Because HD messed up the order and had to send a replacement. The hou...
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The Histories: December 2009
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Tuesday, December 08, 2009. Links to this post. Saturday, December 05, 2009. Living room window casing. In this post I replace clamshell casing with 1x4 board. Casing is also referred to as trim or moulding. Below is the original casing. I wanted to go with something wider, and a flat shape instead of the curved profile of the clamshell (in the inset below, you can see why it's called clamshell). Below, new casing! Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Angela and Guillaume's blog.
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The Histories: September 2010
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Monday, September 06, 2010. In this post I put up trim, paneling and track-lighting in an upstairs bedroom. Picture below of the bedroom, that I took at the realtor open house when I first looked at the place. Can you notice that the vaulted ceiling is plain wallboard, and there is not much in the way of trim around the closet? The work in this post is to give the room definition and charm. Both the shelf and vertical support wood will be nailed or screwed to wall studs. In photo below you can see the be...
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The Histories: January 2011
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Thursday, January 13, 2011. First, here are the new housies, tentatively named. 20-30 inches fell Weds. Subtle texture in snow:. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Angela and Guillaume's blog. There was an error in this gadget.
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The Histories: May 2010
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010. Although the deck project is far from finished, I ended up going with antique white for the deck. The color is Valspar's Woodrow Wilson Cream, from the Historic Preservation series. It looks very white in photo below, but in reality it is not as bright. Anyways I will replace the entire deck with a new larger one sometime. The bright paint sure seems to highlight the low-quality stairs and I may make a nicer starcase/railing sooner. I do not tire from this view in the side yard.
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The Histories: July 2010
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Monday, July 26, 2010. Headquarters for hydrogeologic engineering operations, famously relocated. Links to this post. Saturday, July 24, 2010. Split-rail fence and fire pit. This fire pit is a simple unmortared stone circle, Joe and I put up today. Joe is my 12 yr old neighbor. Setting up: trapezoidal cement block from local supplier, traprock base from neighbor, 2 bags playsand. The rest of the blocks were still on the truck, also cinder blocks lanscape tiles for tray table next to fire pit. Below, some...
