I doubt the kitchen wall is load-bearing, because of the way it bumps out into the space, similar to an add-on. If it is load-bearing, it'd be a real surprise. Load-bearing means studs will be 16" ...
I guess most of the sewing done is of very small piecework? Because the second you have anything over a yard's worth of fabric, it's going to shove everything off the desk as it goes through the ma...
My walls look that pockmarked as well, thanks to years and years of paint layers. I've found the only way to get a clean line and not go crazy is to a) prime properly, b) run a thin pencil line and...
That last image is really rather sad. There are no trees in the yard, so instead imprint them on the glass? I'd much rather have something abstract on the glass -- if one must have anything at all ...
Agreed, Heneage. Vile is exactly the word.
If it's right now, it's trying really hard to be the 70's -- that's an LP sitting on the ottoman in the foreground.
The ...
Once I figured out shellac wasn't nearly as intimidating as it might seem (due to its connection with finer woodworking and the horrors of padding as a finish), I fell in love and use it on pretty ...
Hah. My grandmother gave me a book of etiquette that she'd been given upon getting married. Second printing, 1921, I believe. I took it home and promptly began reading random passages out loud to m...
Following links: my mother's Lennox pattern is very similar to Noritake's Atlantique. It's not a bone white, but a creamy almost-yellow, and she's mixed it with a variety of platters, bowls, and wh...
My mother's china is Lennox, but it's a pattern very similar to Maestro, and she's had it for almost 40 years now -- and it doesn't look dated at all. It's simple and elegant, and while fashionable...
My first reaction: what is that thing in the middle, just floating there!? The angle of the photograph (and the sheer color of it) makes it look like it was superimposed via bad CGI. I mean,...
elee: I don't think it matters, since I trade off when planing, myself, alternating hands whenever one gets sore. Plus, your dominant hand for writing isn't necessarily your power hand -- us...
Third on the orange stuff, plus it's pretty thick so it'll stick to vertical surfaces. Just be patient with it, b/c it doesn't work as fast as the heavy chemicals, and be ready to do it several tim...
the first time I saw clean, modern, new architecture so thoroughly filthy and debased, as in the lobby of Alex’s apartment building
Heh, my first thought: oh, look, it's t...
Add me to the votes hoping you *don't* sandblast it or repaint it. Then it'd just be a rather awkward-looking metal cart, instead of a grotesquely-yellow cart that's so ugly it's cute, especially w...
What's the difference between automotive tape and painter's tape (other than the fact, I'm guessing, that painter's tape is designed to not pull up the paint under it)? Where would you find automot...
Alternate to semi-gloss might be to try the new scrubbable flat. I believe it's Valspar (Lowe's), and it really is scrubbable -- I took a scrubby with Comet to it and no paint came off. Amazing stu...
cbauch: try a woodworking store. that's where woodworkers gather, after all, so might be someone looking to trade up (to a newer Stanley, frex) and willing to sell one of their older planes. The ot...
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What grit, though? 60, 80, 100, 120, 150, 220... or higher???
I doubt the kitchen wall is load-bearing, because of the way it bumps out into the space, similar to an add-on. If it is load-bearing, it'd be a real surprise. Load-bearing means studs will be 16" ...
I guess most of the sewing done is of very small piecework? Because the second you have anything over a yard's worth of fabric, it's going to shove everything off the desk as it goes through the ma...
My walls look that pockmarked as well, thanks to years and years of paint layers. I've found the only way to get a clean line and not go crazy is to a) prime properly, b) run a thin pencil line and...
That last image is really rather sad. There are no trees in the yard, so instead imprint them on the glass? I'd much rather have something abstract on the glass -- if one must have anything at all ...
I'm with Slowdown and TheoJ: intriguing notion but the execution leaves a great deal to be desired.
Agreed, Heneage. Vile is exactly the word. If it's right now, it's trying really hard to be the 70's -- that's an LP sitting on the ottoman in the foreground. The ...
Once I figured out shellac wasn't nearly as intimidating as it might seem (due to its connection with finer woodworking and the horrors of padding as a finish), I fell in love and use it on pretty ...
Hah. My grandmother gave me a book of etiquette that she'd been given upon getting married. Second printing, 1921, I believe. I took it home and promptly began reading random passages out loud to m...
Following links: my mother's Lennox pattern is very similar to Noritake's Atlantique. It's not a bone white, but a creamy almost-yellow, and she's mixed it with a variety of platters, bowls, and wh...
My mother's china is Lennox, but it's a pattern very similar to Maestro, and she's had it for almost 40 years now -- and it doesn't look dated at all. It's simple and elegant, and while fashionable...
My first reaction: what is that thing in the middle, just floating there!? The angle of the photograph (and the sheer color of it) makes it look like it was superimposed via bad CGI. I mean,...
You can have him if I can have the jointer he's using.
elee: I don't think it matters, since I trade off when planing, myself, alternating hands whenever one gets sore. Plus, your dominant hand for writing isn't necessarily your power hand -- us...
Third on the orange stuff, plus it's pretty thick so it'll stick to vertical surfaces. Just be patient with it, b/c it doesn't work as fast as the heavy chemicals, and be ready to do it several tim...
the first time I saw clean, modern, new architecture so thoroughly filthy and debased, as in the lobby of Alex’s apartment building Heh, my first thought: oh, look, it's t...
Add me to the votes hoping you *don't* sandblast it or repaint it. Then it'd just be a rather awkward-looking metal cart, instead of a grotesquely-yellow cart that's so ugly it's cute, especially w...
What's the difference between automotive tape and painter's tape (other than the fact, I'm guessing, that painter's tape is designed to not pull up the paint under it)? Where would you find automot...
Alternate to semi-gloss might be to try the new scrubbable flat. I believe it's Valspar (Lowe's), and it really is scrubbable -- I took a scrubby with Comet to it and no paint came off. Amazing stu...
cbauch: try a woodworking store. that's where woodworkers gather, after all, so might be someone looking to trade up (to a newer Stanley, frex) and willing to sell one of their older planes. The ot...