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First of all, thank you so much for all of the birthday wishes yesterday. They are much appreciated. I had a very nice, low-key birthday (just how I like it). Evan gave me the supercute J.A. snail box I’ve had my eye on, and we had mini-red vel [Read More]

It was not supposed to rain today. I had plans to put a coat or two of primer on the exterior trim of my kitchen windows. I started stripping & repairing this trim last fall and finished up a few weekends ago. Now I have my fingers crossed that i [Read More]

That's probably what all of you do for a date these days, isn't it? Lumberyard, dinner, movie - pretty standard, I'd say.Tuesday night, my dear parents came down to watch the children while Sam and I hit the local Carter's lumber looking for trim. We [Read More]

One week after removing the trim in Shug and Punkin's room, I got down to business taking down the trim in SweetP's bedroom, too. This time it was evening, Sam was subbing in an indoor soccer game, and a Pooh Bear video was my strategy. Here are the [Read More]

Well, Mike caught the flu last week and was absolutely couch-ridden for days. This put us more then a little behind on finishing the room, but we were able to finally put up all the window trim and install the shades.The baseboard trim proved to be a [Read More]

Cold, cold weather has meant that only interior work can be done. The main focus over the past two weeks has been trim: windows and baseboards. The baseboard style is very simple--plain five and one-half inch painted wood with flat top edge. Rega [Read More]

*"Litho-": pertaining to stone, from the Greek "lithos". "Mania" requires no further explanation.Lithuania: a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, having nothing to do with soapstone but sounding like Lithomania.This week, our beauti [Read More]

Ok.  The big question!  Which paint color do we go with? Or at least that’s a big question in our house.  When I pull out the paint chips and start talking paint colors, my husband runs.  It’s not that hard is it?  I know what I don [Read More]

That I really enjoy stripping paint? I mean, don't get me wrong, the dangerous lead issue is no fun. However, watching the paint bubble up, and then scrapping it off in ugly, lead infested ribbons makes up for the hassle. It's a little like Christ [Read More]

Today was much more fulfilling than yesterday.  If you compare the pictures, you’ll see why! It always takes me awhile to get back in the groove of hauling up all the tools and starting the circus of sawing, shaving, cutting, sanding, shimming [Read More]

Today was a fantastic but long day.  I finished installing the base trim, finished puttying all the nail holes, sanded all the yet-to-be-installed trim (crown, base shoe, base cap, window stop), sanded the putty, taped the walls and floor and put on [Read More]

I woke up bright and early to get a start on the day. I began installing the new flashing around 7 and did a quick mock up of how the final flashing and drip edge combo will work. It went pretty quick and I was painting by 9:00. img id="BLOGGER_PH [Read More]

But first...Last week, Jessica decided to stain the inside of the front door. We had been planning on painting it because there was some damage on the inside from when the holes for the door hardware were cut. I had repaired the damage with some wo [Read More]

After taking a mini-vacation from all things renovation related, and to recover from a summer cold, the husband and I are back in full swing this weekend- among the things completed: Door jamb stained Quarter-round trim stained Over-the-Sink light p [Read More]

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One of the router bits arrived today. I’ve ordered two of the 4 or 5 I’ll need to recreate the 1895 Victorian base boards in the house. The others are fairly common, so I can buy them locally.Well, its not a perfect match. I didn’t think it wou [Read More]

Most of the interior doors and trim are installed–and have been for weeks. Here is a shot of the master bedroom window trim. Willy is going to come by this week and try and set the rest of the interior doors and then we will have to wait unti [Read More]

Usually I'm the Market "opener" meaning I get to work at 7AM. Every once in a while something's going on and I'm the "closer" so I get the morning to do other stuff. Today it was staining. My coolest accomplishment today was the first section of rail [Read More]

At this point in the kitchen project everything major was completed. All that was left was to install baseboard trim, casing around the sliding glass door and pantry, trim the vinyl window, cut and install the wood floor thresholds, and replace and b [Read More]

We're down to the final stretch in our kitchen remodel. Those finishing touches that add that extra sparkle to a finished space. Yes, the trim.I'm glad we remodeled elsewhere in the house first as it's given us perspective and time to figure out how [Read More]