MarkTheFiddler's Blog Archive
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The Master #4: Home Stretch - I hope.
The floor is down. It took me a LOT longer to lay that floor than any other wood floor I have eve...
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The Master #3: Peace
I got up early and added some flooring then I weighted and waited. And weighted and waited...
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The Master #2: Insanity
There is a popular definition on insanity going around that had a bearing on me today. Forgive me...
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The Master #1: Demo with obstacles.
I sort of expected a little assist from my son today. He had to go to work. Here I was with this ...
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My Living Room #3: Progress finally
I only worked about 12 hours this weekend. I made enough casing for 4 doors. That will take care ...
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My Living Room #2: Trim out the fireplace.
My last post on this has been aging for a while while I get a grip on reality. I haven’t qu...
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An Upholstery Primer #5: Stuffing Seat Cushions
It’s a video blog. No scripting. Hope it helps! Cutting the foamWrapping the foamStuff I...
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An Upholstery Primer #4: Make a throw pillow
Hey Refurbers, Sorry for skipping ahead but I have long since upholstered the couch I was stri...
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An Upholstery Primer #3: Make your life easier.
Stripping furniture creates a mound of discards. It can fill the trash in no time at all. Grab a ...
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An Upholstery Primer #2: Prep the furniture
I’m sorry for having so little information in this post from the onset. As I need to do cer...
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An Upholstery Primer #1: Strip the old stuff!
Aside from a piece of furniture to strip, you’re going to need some tools. A little ...
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My Living Room #1: Demo time!
I have been targetting my living room for the longest time. And since I have been playing with sm...
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The Daughter's Room #3: Room Done - On to building storage.
Painting, flooring, hardware, trim is done. You may remember that I built the door trim from scra...
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The Daughter's Room #2: Getting Somewhere
All painting today. I’m tired. We are behind schedule. So what else is new? This is a sneak...
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The Daughter's Room #1: Wake up Wake up Mark, You have to do Victoria's Room!
“Huh? Wuzzat? I’m still asleep” “Victoria keeps wondering when you are...
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Am I Really going to do that to my fireplace!? #1: Some Materials gathered and I'm dying to start!
Once again, I have totally lost my mind. Demo is not done. I haven’t built a scaffold. I do...
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The Son's Room #2: Day 3. To the finish.
Got up at 5:30. As soon as it was light enough, I had an extremely gratifying round of priming. I...
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The Son's Room #1: Day 1 of the real thing
Howdy, We started the day off with my son’s friend showing up at 8:00 AM. Which was fine...
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The Son's Room.
My son has one year of high school left. I have changed my plans for doing the house so we can ge...
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Simple Hall Way redo. #6: The End in Sight?
The end is not necessarily in sight but my stopping point will be soon I think. I have started at...
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Simple Hall Way redo. #5: Not so simple
Day 10: Yesterday. I started dry fitting my base boards and I got completely twisted. To my credi...
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Simple Hall Way redo. #4: Day 7
This was definitely a long day. I did a door – big deal. But I was determined to fini...
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Simple Hall Way redo. #3: The big slowdown on day 3.
I was busy all day but don’t feel like I have much to show for it. I painted the closet. Th...
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Simple Hall Way redo. #2: Day 2, Texturing corners, painting and dog hair!
I got my corners smoothed out then blended in some crows foot pattern. I got out my s...
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Simple Hall Way redo. #1: Day 1. Demo and reinforcing the banged up corners.
Howdy! I’m not a pro. That’s going to be easy to see. The only thing is that I hav...
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Blog Series
- Am I Really going to do that to my fireplace!? - 1 part
- An Upholstery Primer - 5 parts
- My Living Room - 3 parts
- Simple Hall Way redo. - 6 parts
- The Daughter's Room - 3 parts
- The Master - 4 parts
- The Son's Room - 2 parts
