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Location: Petaluma, CA
Website: http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke
Bought a 1947 cottage in southwest Petaluma (about 45 minutes north of San Francisco) in January of 2008, our projects started by ripping out the carpets to reveal the gorgeous white oak floors. We never want to move again, so we're slowly turning this place into the home we want to spend the rest of our lives in.
We'll be building our own kitchen cabinets, eventually hope to build our own doors, make doing the place up with beautiful wooden fixtures our hobby.
I'm also slightly active over at LumberJocks, along with my own extensive web presence.
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| commented on | Front Door Trim #4: Ipe threshold | 13 days ago |
| replied on | What the hell... | 15 days ago |
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| added blog entry | Front Door Trim #4: Ipe threshold | 20 days ago |
| commented on | Gazebo Deck and Path | 50 days ago |
| started topic | Sprinkler system: Things to watch out for? | 128 days ago |
| commented on | Making An Entrance | 141 days ago |
| commented on | Rec room fireplace in progress | 142 days ago |
| commented on | Lighten up | 142 days ago |
| commented on | Tile-clad Kitchen | 146 days ago |
| added project | Making An Entrance | 149 days ago |
| added blog entry | Front Door Trim #3: Making an entrance | 150 days ago |
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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 eas...
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It’s gonna be hotter than the hinges of Hades today, so I went out this morning and finished up the porch rails. Project page coming, but I want to take a few more pictures with different light.
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On the left is how it looks now, on the right is how it used to look. You may think it’s not an improvement, but if you look closely, on the blown-up version of the left, you can see a new lattice there. When we moved in, the back ya...
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The progress on the new front door continues. In my previous front door update, I’d mocked up a couple of images of what the trim might look like, including a few curves. We put a couple of pieces up there, taped out a few curves just ...
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On the left, how it looked when we moved in, on the right, how it looks as of right now. The ugly “security” door on the front has always bothered me. It’s indicative of a bad neighborhood, where people don’t trust th...
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MRTRIM
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505 posts in 193 days
posted 192 days ago
welcome to HR dan good to see ya
MsDebbieP
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posted 191 days ago
Hi Dan. Glad you made it here :)
-- ~ Debbie, Ontario Canada
Bill
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posted 181 days ago
Hi Dan, and welcome to Home Refurbers.
So you bought in Petaluma. How do you like it so far? It sounds like you have lots of work ahead of you to make the house of your dreams.
-- Bill - Turlock, Ca. - http://www.brookswoodworks.com
Dan Lyke
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posted 181 days ago
Bill, so far we’re loving it. We just had an “invite all the neighbors over” party and had a grand ol’ time, last night we went to an underground (literally) concert with Steve Seskin (whose songs you’ve almost certainly heard), the bicycling is awesome.
And the house is great because there’s very little that we must do, but a lot that we want to do. I’ve started to work on milling our reclaimed mahogany for the cabinet doors and baseboards, hoping that we’ll be able to hang the new front door and start in on the baseboards soon, and I’m working on a few things for the back yard.
Always something more interesting to do than, for instance, watch TV, but no emergency projects on the list.