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Two months before our wedding last summer, I thought it would be a great idea to start to restore our staircase.  It’s one of my favorite features of our house. My thinking was that we could finish it during the summer.  It didn’t seem like it would be an expensive project, but would be labor intensive.  I was right.Before and ...

It’s been awhile since we’ve posted & believe or not, we’ve been working on the house a bit! We are “close” to finishing the stairway project, but I feel like I’ve been saying that for a long time.  After Nick finished the last of the drywall sanding we vacuumed the walls and then primed the walls. While the primer was drying we ...

Thanks to the Holiday weekend, I was able to tackle more of the skim coating on the walls by the staircase. It’s looking pretty good, until you look really close. There are sections that I’m very proud of, but I’m still learning how to apply a smooth skim coat without tool marks like they describe in the drywall book we read. If the ...

Projects around the house can deplete money in a savings account quickly.  If it isn't the cost of the materials, then it is the expense of the new tool that is needed to do the job correctly. Granted, the cost of the tool is usually less than it would cost to bring someone in to work on the project for one day, but it adds up fast. As ...