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Category Archives: Foyer
Reader, I Did It
I’m headed back to Building Value on Monday morning to take apart then transport these columns and knee walls to my foyer…where they will no doubt sit for a little while before I get around to installing them. I decided … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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Reader, Should I?
If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know I live in a circa 1906 house that I’ve been restoring from a 1950s two-family conversion back to a one family (which in my case consists of … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration, Uncategorized
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2 Steps Up & 2 Steps Back
At the Lie-Nielsen Toolworks 35th-anniversary open house last weekend, almost everyone with whom I talked asked one thing: How are the stairs coming along? Those who didn’t ask about the stairs asked about the house in general. (Except for the … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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A Heaping Serving of Humble Pie
I vowed to use period-correct tools, techniques and – as much as possible – salvaged materials from the early 1900s for the house rehab projects. And I’ve caught a bit of grief for it, because, as several people have mentioned, … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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Floored by the Kindness of Strangers
I was hanging out with Chris Schwarz at his first Lost Art Press Saturday open shop a few weeks back, and in walks his neighbor, Dave. Dave and his wife, Marissa, are rehabbing a Victorian about a block away. He … Continue reading
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Some Things Old, Some Things New
This weekend, after dithering a bit about how to go about it, I decided to cobble together the staircase landing from the original 2x8s (really that size) and some new materials…because much of the old was missing, thanks to the … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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Got Pine?
The cats have lost their favorite hiding place. I finally got off my duff and removed the three bottom stairs today, in preparation for rebuilding them with a landing and a turn. Clearly, the above is cobbled together, with what … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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It’s About to Get Interesting (I Hope)
After almost two months of tear-out, I’m about ready to start putting things back together in the front hall. That’s good…because with an open 12′ drop from the second floor, I suspect I’m just asking for trouble (as a result, … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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Racing to a Standstill
But for a tenacious few bits of rock lath (or whatever that old drywall-like stuff is called) on the side of the Harry Potter closet and staircase, I have the major tear-out in the hall completed. I courted my own … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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Try This 1 Easy* Trick to Lose Weight
I highly recommend house renovation as a weight-loss regimen. Not only will you work your ass off (literally), you’ll use muscles you forgot you had (you’ll know, because they’ll hurt like hell the next morning), you’ll be too tired to … Continue reading
Posted in Foyer, Renovation/Restoration
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