House and Home
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One gift clock finished!
Ahhh... The first real product of the new shop is a small gift clock for a friend of ours who recently got married. It's simple, and definitely built by an amateur, but we…
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Sausage and smashed pea pasta with cream sauce
This one is really, really simple. I got the idea from a program that I saw on the Food Network, and thought this would be good to make some evening for us. The…
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Floor pictures!
Lots of other updates for today, but this gets a separate post, since the other stuff is generally not house-related. :) Pictures from the final day of the floor installation, last Saturday, start…
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Floor is finished!
Well, the floor in the dining room is finished! This was a crazy project. This is what happens, I suppose, when one thinks that hey, this project can't be that bad. This was…
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Yes, you can install your own hardwood floor
We got the floor started today. Mass came first, then Jenny and I went to brunch at my parents' house to see my sister Sarah (and have some brunch, of course :) ). …
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The floor saga continues
Shortly after my last post, I jumped online to do some quick research and get some prices. We had a few important limitations:Floor should be no more than 1/2" thick. The plywood was…
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The floor is crap
Apparently, someone else had issues with the floor in there at one point, and replaced it with a plywood floor. It isn't bad plywood, but it is still plywood. Interestingly, whoever did this…
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Another carpet bites the dust!
Well, it is about to bite the dust. This weekend, we'll be pulling up the old wall-to-wall carpet in the dining room, and it's headed straight for the trash. Jenny and I talked…
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The shop is assembled and getting some use!
Saturday was a good day. I talked to my Dad the night before, and we set a "play date" for Saturday. I needed to head out to Mars Lumber to pick up some…
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Tools, and some sad news about a (former) local company
I was able to make a super buy today on some tools for my woodshop. I saw a post on the Pittsburgh Craigslist for a sale of "new and lightly used" metal- and…