Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Cue the drum roll! Raise the curtain! At long last, I am pleased to reveal the completed Bungalow '23 exterior trim painting.
Did I say the paint was "completed"? Well, not quite. Even with all the major trim repainted, there will still be exterior painting for me to work on. Other ...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Okay, this one took a long time even by my ridiculously drawn-out standards. Way way back in October of 2005, when I was a newbie blogger about to mark the first anniversary of closing on this house, I bought some new house numbers. They were mission-style and I thought I ...
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
With most of my house projects, things usually get worse before they can get better. As the exterior painting work here progresses, the pattern is the same, though this time I have other people in charge of the work.
Getting Worse
It took the painters a few days to finish the scraping ...
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Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
At last it's time, here at Bungalow '23, to look into the future!
The future, Josh?
That's right, Dear Reader, let's look to the future-- all the way to the year 2010!
In the year 2010, in fact this very week, my house is finally getting the exterior paint job it has needed ...
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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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