88 days ago
by mbulla |
4 comments »
Halloween Challenge: HomeRefurbers | LumberJocks | GardenTenders
I can hear those hinges creaking for the first time in a long time and see cobwebs and ghosts haunting the doorway. Oh yes, the challenge is on! Decorate your front door for Halloween and enter the project in our first ever HomeRefurbers’ Halloween Challenge. Make it fun and inspire us with your creativity.
PRIZES
Lee Valley will provide 3 random winners with the following great prizes:
$50 gift card
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91 days ago
by ryno101 |
5 comments »
So, I mentioned I’d be starting a bunch of new projects soon… Well, I heard today that our mortgage is going through! Yes, even despite the current “Credit Crisis” it looks like we’ve gotten ours through, which was the last hurdle.
The new house is on 1/3 of an acre, it’s about 1500 Sq. Feet. Here’s the front:
It needs a TON of work. the last two owners both lost the house to foreclosure, (you’d think that the first bank that had to for...
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91 days ago
by Olaf Gradin |
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I’ve recently finished one half of the 21’ subfloor I’m building. I’m out of joists, so I’ll need to buy more before continuing. In the meantime, I figured I would go ahead and lay paneling where I could as the leveled joists over the concrete floor are making it increasingly more difficult to walk. I tacked down a few rows of insulation and already have the vapor barrier purchased and ready to go. As soon as I can get out to the store, I’ll be purchasi...
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94 days ago
by Olaf Gradin |
3 comments »
In just a few weeks, we’ll have a new baby girl to bring into our shrinking home. In just a few weeks, I hope to have added a recreation / office room to our house to compensate. I’m using my two-car garage and cutting it half such that a car would not fit within its depth. The outer half will be my workshop while the inner half will be a playroom. My task is not, on the surface, too difficult save for the fact that I’ve never done this kind of work before and I’m ...
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97 days ago
by 3fingerpat |
3 comments »
Well, it has been a while and slowly but surely I have gotten a few more things accomplished. I was able to install, grout and seal the tile backsplash above the counters. I had to stop just past the sink because the wall is not plumb, (gotta love these old houses) so the contractor will be fixing that in Nov for us and then I will be able to finish that portion of the remodel.
I have primed the wood trim; which will fit in the space btwn the backsplash tiles the wall and bottom of the...
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98 days ago
by Scott Hildenbrand |
1 comment »
Well.. Figured I’d hung out over at GardenTenders enough and thought I’d get to actually posting about the homestead.
I’ve got quite a few projects to take care of outside the home, well, besides the garden. To start off I thought I’d tackle replacing the rot around the front door and fixing the water issue.
It seems somewhere along the lines the prior owners decided to have aluminum installed over all the exterior trim. I despise this practice for several reason...
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101 days ago
by mbulla |
1 comment »
As many of you might have already noticed, we’ve established new centralized system which allows you access to all three websites in our network:
HomeRefurbers
GardenTenders
LumberJocks
You can see following graphic when you visit sign-in or sign-up pages on these sites. Think of it as your unique network passport/ID:
You can read more here .
Enjoy
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109 days ago
by Dan Lyke |
10 comments »
With the coming of fall weather, the gap underneath the door finally got annoying to the point where I milled a new threshold out of Ipe and installed it. Lessons learned:
1. Despite how hard and dense it is, Ipe actually mills fairly easily.
2. The sawdust stinks, spreads a green (despite the nice color of the wood) dust over everything, and hangs in the air. Definitely open the shop doors and use a respirator.
3. No matter how nicely you prep your work area, if you do finishi...
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117 days ago
by 3fingerpat |
8 comments »
The contractor removed the old floor tiles and installed the new floor tiles while I was out of town on a business trip. It was nice not having to deal with the noise and the disruption but I had a lot of work to do to get the room ready by removing all the stuff from the kitchen, not a lot of fun.The new floor turned out fine but the grout color does not match what we selected, bummer!The grout is gray but we wanted a light tan color, the installed grout doesn’t match the color palate...
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124 days ago
by PaBull |
9 comments »
Today I was busy making the glass doors for the medicine cabinets for all the bathrooms in the house. I thought I might as well share the fun with you guys. First thing I had to do after I cut the styles and rails, was make a jig to do the coping on the router table. My router table is build in with the table saw, very basic. Here some pictures of that jig.
The pictures are not the best, I took them with my PDA, sorry.
The jig rides against the edge of the table.
Now here...
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