stairway
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Creating some Columns
Over Christmas we demo’d some walls to make an opening for new columns for our staircase. Well, after finishing the wood upstairs, painting the stairway, and painting the upstairs and entry, we finally are making progress on the columns. We drew up some plans, and went to work covering the two by fours with MDF and backerboard. Both products paint up nicely. We measured how big we want the recessed panel to be, and ripped some MDF strips on the table saw. We brought them in, put them together, and then nailed them when we were happy with how the seams looked. We decided to build out the bottom with…
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How I re finished my stair railings
We’ve been busy around here lately. After we got the downstairs wall demo’d we started working on the stair railings. I knew the look I wanted, and knew it would take a lot of work. The original railings were a light oak and white. We are putting a dark acacia wood on the floor, so I wanted the top of my railings to match. We decided that instead of just painting the whole railing, we would try stripping off the varnish and stain and try re staining the wood. We used a citris stripper we found at Home Depot. We painted it on the wood top, waited the recommended time,…
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Throw back Thursday
My twelve year old daughter went to school today wearing leg warmers, ratted hair, purple eyeshadow, and everything else that entails dressing in the eighties. It was throw back Thursday at her school today. She was so excited, and it got me thinking about all the fun things I have worked on in all the other houses I have lived in. Some of my favorite things to do when I move into a house is to add color. As I am re doing this house, I love to see all the different rooms and color that I added to other places I have lived in. This was one of my…
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A touch of brick
Life has been crazy around here. It has been a while since my last post. We have been busy adding a little bit of exposed brick to our home. There is a landing in my stairs between my middle level and my basement level that I wanted to dress up for a long time. There was this shelf that came out from the wall. I wanted to put brick on the top and wainscoting on the bottom. We started by putting up some backer board, and went to work adding the brick. It is the thin brick perfect for walls. We were nervous about bricking a wall, but it actually…
