-
The other window: DONE!
Today was another day of good progress. Thanks to the work we did yesterday, today we were able to get the other window in the room done with its first coat of shellac. …
-
Mmmm.. the smell of stripper in the air
We needed some sleep this morning, so we slept-in a bit. We were up and moving by 10AM, though. The first job for today was to get the one chair from the room…
-
Fools!
One of my hobbies is that I do sound for theatre productions. I normally work some community and high school productions in the area. The first show for me this fall is a…
-
The Window! It’s Finally Done!
... at least as done as it is going to be this time around. It was a busy push until the end, but we did it! The trim and frame managed to get…
-
The big window is close to living again
Today, the big window got much closer to living again. While Jenny worked on some of the last bits of heat-gun stripping, I was able to finish sanding the trim and frame around…
-
Cool!
I know we've been making progress, but today I actually felt like we were getting a little bit closer to being done with the living room. My Dad came down to help us…
-
Special feed for Our Old House entries!
Thanks to a suggestion by the Houseblogs.net folks, I went ahead and created a special feed for only entries related to our old house restoration. If you're here just to read about that,…
-
Busy day
Today was busy. We were pretty tired after yesterday, so we slept-in a bit before getting up for church. I had to cook tonight to make something for the church's young adult group…
-
Paint Stripping Fun (again)
We got a bunch of work done on the house today. My Dad came down to help. We first wired-up a new outlet in the basement on an individual circuit for a chest…
-
New Tools! (and more work, of course)
Earlier this week, I was pondering how to make it easier to strip paint from some of the more intricate moulding. While thinking about this, I wondered to myself how much it would…