The Petch House
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Simpsonesque
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- Published on Sunday, 02 December 2012
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I've had it with this old Victorian crap. I decided to go with a pop-culture motif with the downstairs heat registers. I was amazed that I was able to find Lisa Simpson heat registers that had a patent date of 1894. Perhaps that's a typo. Maybe these are really 1994 heat registers.
I installed five registers and the cold air return. I...
And Greg said,
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- Published on Saturday, 27 October 2012
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Let there be heat: and there was heat. And Greg felt the heat, that it was good: and Greg divided the heated, upstairs part of the house from the coldness.
By the seventh week Greg had finished the work of cleaning out the attic, insulating, and installing the heating system; so on the seventh week he rested from all his work and...
In Retrospect
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- Published on Saturday, 13 October 2012
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Where once there were pocket doors....
Where once there was a grand opening....
Next up, heating. Insulation was put in the attic this week. New heating system goes in next week.
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What doe sit taste like?
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- Published on Monday, 03 September 2012
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What does a finished room taste like? I'm not sure, but I'm so close to being finished with the front rooms I can almost taste it. I can say that the big front stained glass window is done. That tastes kind of like a mix between paint and glazing putty. Not that good.
Megan the intern was here on Monday and did the glazing. She really...
Sigh of Relief!
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- Published on Saturday, 25 August 2012
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Ten years in the making and the project is almost over. It was more than ten years ago when I bought the replacement glass for the big front window with the bullet hole in it and we finally got it in today! I was very nervous. This was a $350 piece of red colored glass being installed in an 1895 stained glass window.
So many things...
Bullet Hole Begone
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- Published on Sunday, 19 August 2012
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New from Ronco it's Bullet Hole Begone!
This is a new, must-have product for any Crack House owner. Just spray it on and the bullet holes are gone! It's just that simple!
Oh, if only it were that simple. The time came for me today to remove the large piece of colored glass with the bullet hole in it. The glass was installed in 1895 and...
Justified
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 August 2012
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I've fallen into Window Treatment hell. For me this is one of the nine rings of room restoration hell. I know choosing paint colors is one of the rings, and plaster work is in there, too. I can't really say what the others are, but I'm sure there are nine of them for old room restoration, if not more.
Google 'window treatments' and you...
The home stretch
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- Published on Sunday, 12 August 2012
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Too...tired...to...type. Gasp! Can't...seem...to...get...off...the...couch....
Must...reach...red...wine...
Next up, floors... Gasp!
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Except...
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- Published on Sunday, 05 August 2012
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I started in on the painting first thing this morning. After I painted for a while I did a little more painting. Once I got tired of painting I switched to painting for a break from the monotony of painting. After that I did a little more panting.
I wish I could say that after all of the painting that I was finished with all of the...
On and on and on
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- Published on Friday, 03 August 2012
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The painting is taking forever. I started Monday and worked on it every night this week after work and I still don't have one coat on everything.
Even if I'm able to finish up on Saturday there is still the two plaster medallions and the two plaster corbels. Right now I'm giving them one coat of the trim paint, which the chamomile in...
