36 days ago
by JeffS |
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Once I closed in new exterior wall, I framed in the old porch floor area to bring it up flush with the interior floors. From there, taking down the old wall was pretty easy; just had lots of electrical to re-route.
Framing in the new wall to divide the space into a Foyer and Dining Room
Onto the drywall! Pretty straightforward at this point. I pulled new electrical into the basement for outlets, ceiling lights, wall sconces, 3 way switches, outdoor lights…lots of ne...
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38 days ago
by JeffS |
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Hello,
I just discovered this site, via lumberjocks. I have been working on our massive dining room project for over a year now! Here’s the history:
My wife and I inherited an antique dining room set from her grandparents, but we did not yet have a dining room. When we bought the house, we had plans for turning the front living room into a dining room, as we also had another room serving as a family room elsewhere in the house. So, time to get cranking on the dining room proje...
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68 days ago
by Olaf Gradin |
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Boy do I have updates to share! I’ve finally finished this project, merely 452+ days after it began. The garage conversion has been completed! I now have a spacious 10’x20’ room attached directly to my dining room. It is better insulated than any other part of the house and we’re already enjoying the comfort during these nights in the 20’s (of degrees F).
Also, my daughter is walking well enough these days. My earlier posts spoke of her birth – well now ...
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124 days ago
by Bothus |
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I actually told the story about my free air compressor on Lumberjocks but since it has led to a kitchen/laundry room remodel I decided to follow up here.
The short version is that I got a free air compressor years ago and it recently quit working. I went to Sear’s Outlet to see if they had any and ended up buying the little woman a new French door refrigerator that we were planning to buy after the first of the year.
The new fridge wouldn’t fit where the old fridge was becau...
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136 days ago
by 3fingerpat |
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Here are a couple of pics of the baseboards installed, nail holes and edges puttied, sanded and primered:
I also mudded\floated out the remaining sections of the wall where the top coat of plaster had been removed. Just trying to level it all out before I primer the walls and ceiling this weekend. Then I hope to get the walls and ceiling retexturized. Happy Halloween!
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141 days ago
by 3fingerpat |
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I worked on making new door trim moulding, well the bullnose trim anyways. The trim is just painted 1×4 MDF trim from the BORG. The bullnose trim is 1x pine that I planed down to 3/8” and then routed a bullnose profile. It is not much for detail but it matches the existing trim that was already in the house, so I thought it should stay as it was:
After finish nailing the trim, I set the nails and then used wood putty to fill all nail heads and joint seams to try to give t...
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150 days ago
by 3fingerpat |
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Well, it has been almost a year since my last post on this project; never thought this was going to take as long as it has, but….a lot has happened in one year. Let me skip all the events and just say I am slowly back to working on this remodel.
I am still recovering from shoulder surgery and am not able to work on this as much as I would like, in fact, I just recently got to the point where I could raise my arm enought to hold\work a trowel. So I started by continuing on with the ...
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191 days ago
by dragonfly |
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to me and my knoweledge of what is left right and not aloen there are circulation systems and then there are circulation systems what i mean is i am sort of in a Direct Current type. i don’t read by subscription or perscription but scann where i stand. i retain the impurities as nutrients for some one else and don’t try to consume that what or y that is not mine. i hope i don’t drift into a discussion of ligumes vs plaster boards i like the warmth of walls around my being...
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191 days ago
by BillyJ |
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A little background:
This room was converted from a pre-school room to a science room almost 10 years ago. The architects felt they would provide the school with a lab such as one might find in industry. I talked with many chemists, and to the person, they never saw any professional lab set up like this.
To begin with, the lab sink counter is too high. At more than 42”, it would take a person over 6’ tall to see into the middle of the sink. Second, the sink. It is 8” i...
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194 days ago
by dustynewt |
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Hello all. It has been quite a while since I last posted anything here. I am a woodworker at heart, a paper mill worker for money and a home remodeler by necessity. Our home in Florida was built in 1932, and although it is finally paid for, systems are breaking down. It seems whenever we get some money saved for a project we want to do, the house tells us what it needs.
We had no sooner laid out $4000 for a new central AC unit (a priority here in July) when a lightning storm knocked out the...
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