Bungalow '23: An Arts & Crafts home improvement journal

Cleaning Window Hardware

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

If you've missed the terrific recent posts on window restoration over at Stuccohouse, do yourself a favor and check them out. The photos and instructions she provides are are excellent supplements to resources like Terry Meany's Working Windows. Inspired by the latest entry in Stuccohouse's window series in which she ...

Storm Window Fix, or How To Beat Procrastination Without Really Trying

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I broke the glass in a storm window for one of the dining room piano windows last year. It happened when I was removing some debris from the nursery bedroom on the upper level by lowering it out the window opening. Countless trash bags and trim pieces went ...

Snowy Windowsill

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Who knew there was a "right" way to configure my hated aluminum triple track storm windows? I had assumed that both of the glass storm sashes had weatherstripping on the sash to allow them to be positioned with either sash as the bottom or top. Wrong.

Storm Window Estimate

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

My fellow Minneapolis houseblogger, StuccoHouse, has me inspired! She just replaced a pair of aluminum combination storm windows with solid wood storms and they look fabulous. Shamelessly following her lead, I just completed the online price quote request for three wooden combination storm/screen windows from Adams Architectural Wood Products. ...

Lead Paint Confirmed

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

I just can’t stick to my shopping list at the hardware store. I stopped in to get some polyurethane for a stepstool I’m finishing for my son and I picked up a home test for lead paint on impulse. The test was probably a good impulse because it was cheap ...