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Changing up the Entryway
With the heat continuing outdoors (humidity sucks) work continues indoors. When we painted the living room two weeks ago, we brought the same paint into the entryway since they are open to each other. We just painted the upper portion of the walls knowing we would get around to finishing it off sooner or later. No time like the present.
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Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse project
Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse We recently completed the building plans for a 10ft tall Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse. Now its time to get busy in the workshop to make a production model.
Follow along as we work through the building plans, offering some video tips for when you decide to build your own.
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Woodworking Tip to Prevent Splits
If you have a piece of wood that tends to split when nailing. Try dipping the end of the nail in paste wax or turn the nail over and tap the point with a hammer to dull it a bit.
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Woodworking Tip for Small Nails
Working with brads or small wire nails? It can be difficult to pick up these small fasteners, so I wrap a piece of magnetic weather striping around my left wrist (secure the ends with tape) and then drop some brads on the weather striping. This keeps them handy and ready to go!
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Wainscoting in the basement – the finale
Wainscot and walnut flooring.FINALLY…. ALL DONE!!!! If you want to start at the beginning, go here. This project is spread out over 18 blog posts.
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Wainscoting in the basement part 16
2 hours of filling nail holes and seams. Ran out of molding and caulking, so another trip to the hardware store. There’s about 15 ft left to install.
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Wainscoting in the basement – the finale
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Wainscoting in the basement part 15
Trimming the wainscot boxes. Spent about 6.5 hours of cutting and installing the pine trim moldings for inside the wainscot boxes… all 32 boxes!
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Wainscoting in the basement part 14
Basement walk in entrance wainscot, done! About 2 hours of more sanding and painting. We have finished the entrance room. Really starting to look nice!
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Wainscoting in the basement part 13
We’re at the paint stage! About 3 hours finish sanding, caulking joints around window trim, more sanding and painting.
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Wainscoting in the basement part 12
Filling in the gaps. Between yesterday and today I spent about 10 hours installing the window trim, applying two coats of filler, drying overnight between coats.
