I am just a six inch piece of plastic tubing away from completing the bathroom sink installation.  I made my third trip to Menard’s last night and STILL came home with the wrong size tube.  I just wasn’t paying attention!  Gah!  I wanted so badly to get up this morning and brush my teeth in […]

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 Hopefully this will be the last of it. But don’t worry! I got to do the fun part today: demolition!
Today’s mission: demolish the old bathroom sink to make room for the new bathroom sink!

Scratch can’t understand why he can’t sleep in the sink anymore.

Tore out some of the carpet to reveal some really… […]

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Last night while I was stripping paint in the basement I really wanted some music, but I was out of electrical outlets. (Which got me writing down a few more things I’d like to have done when we do any more electrical upgrading.) Brandon came up with the brilliant idea to run an […]

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I may have just learned a lesson the hard way. Probably a few lessons.
I’ve had these cruddy old canvas gloves since we first bought this house back in August. Since then I’ve used them for everything from stripping paint to cleaning metal with ammonia, to wiping things with mineral spirits, and pulling dusty […]

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I’m very close to finishing my first paint stripping project. There were two wood doors in the basement of my house when I moved in. Both had several layers of paint. I never planned on putting these doors back up in my house so I decided to use them as practice pieces […]

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