Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Welcome to Bungalow '23, stop five on the Bungalow Blog Tour!
When my wife, Ms. Bungalow, and I bought our house in October of 2004, we weren't necessarily looking for a bungalow or an Arts & Crafts home. We just wanted a place near the south Minneapolis neighborhood where Ms. Bungalow ...
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
The drywall crew finished their work in the bedroom days ago and the new walls are ready for primer. But with a child on spring break and a new puppy to train, I just haven't had the time to work on it.
Today, I finally got to the hardware store to ...
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
There's nothing terribly complicated about hanging and finishing drywall. It can be a popular do-it-yourself project for that very reason, and I've even done a bit of it myself.
Getting quality drywall results, however, takes smart layout decisions and a skilled hand-- and I have accepted that it will take a lot more ...
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Apparently the delivery of the drywall for my bedroom project was a big enough spectacle to draw my neighbor to her front yard with camera in hand. Here's the view she saw:
The boom truck lifted 24 sheets of 4' x 12' sheetrock up to the bedroom window opening on the ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
In the two months since I finished stripping the paint from the radiator for my bedroom project, I have had some time to work and reflect.
First the reflection: chemical stripping a radiator was tedious, laborious, odious, noxious; in short, a massive pain. I chose chemical stripping after determining off-site paint ...
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