Archive for the 'Home Improvement' Category

The house hasn’t looked this finished in years.

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Yet to be done: The front bathroom trim A few pieces of shoe in the master bath Casing around the bedroom windows. Baseboard and casing inside closets. Today I fixed up the floor in the master bathroom. Some of the pieces were too short for the transition to the carpet to cover. I had to [...]

Am I dreaming?

Monday, August 18th, 2008

This morning I woke up, checked the three bi-fold doors I sprayed last night (which are beautiful), realized the polyurethane was plenty hard enough to handle the doors, and moved them to the great room. Then I put the last three doors on the rack, removed any dust, and sprayed the first coat of polyurethane [...]

Bryan’s Last Sand!

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

I sanded all three bi-fold doors last night. I’m done sanding doors! I have two of the doors stained in the garage. They’ll start getting polyurethane tonight. I’ll spray every night for the next 8 days, continue working on the jointer (which is coming along quite nicely) and -should- be ready to make sawdust by [...]

It looks so different.

Monday, August 11th, 2008

All the pre-hung, six-panel, solid-core pine interior doors are in. With brushed chrome and nickel lock sets and hinges. Holy cow. It looks so different. I have three, 30″ bi-fold doors left to finish. I’ll start sanding those tonight. I should be able to finish one and a half (they’re two 15″ sections per door) [...]