Simple Wooden Shutters: How To
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 10. Jul, 2008 | 8 Comments
We made shutters out of CHEAP lumber in a couple of hours! You can too!
We bought a bunch of 1×4s (which look like standard 2×4s that have been sliced depth-wise). A 12 foot long piece was $2.69.
First, you cut your lumber! Very, very, very easy if you have a mitre saw, which is the greatest [...]
Scaffold Me
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 08. Jul, 2008 | 7 Comments
There are many projects that are half-finished and strewn about the house and yard; such as, hmm, let’s say for example, the roof, the crawlspace, the vegetable garden, the gutters, the piles of debris and old appliances, the attic, and, now that I think about it, every single room in the house–every room!
Alright, that being [...]
Carnegie Hall
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 27. Jun, 2008 | 3 Comments
Good morning,
Our house is a tiny two-storey, three-bedroom box.
Upstairs there is a hall that leads to all three bedrooms. When we moved in, the hall looked as follows.
The hall actually looks pretty cute in this photograph. Unfortunately, the plaster was crumbling off the walls and was very damaged. So…we removed all the plaster from the [...]
Dry-Walling The Living Room
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 04. Apr, 2008 | 3 Comments
Our latest accomplishment has been taking the living room from original plaster walls to blank-”dry-walled”-slate.
This transformation included the usual insulation, etc.
However, the living room had the added feature of requiring us to drywall the ceiling, which, as you can imagine, was rather eventful. After a few false starts, we built a simple “dead man” tool [...]
Demolition of a Nineteenth Century Room: A Case Study
Posted by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects on 27. Mar, 2008 | 6 Comments
First, the room (in this case, the dining room) as it was a few days ago. Note the cracked/patched plaster on the white wall.
DAY ONE
We start removing 100-years of layers, including (but not limited to) plaster, drywall, strange cork board, paint, wallpaper, and wood paneling.
Before sheets of drywall/gyproc existed, plaster was mixed with horsehair and [...]