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    Quote Originally Posted by kwame k View Post
    When retro fitting to older homes, especially lath and plaster homes, holy shit!!! Try to use modern materials and find me a uniformed thickness in those fucking walls.

    You know it! This house I've been calling home for 4 years now was built in 1957! Ranch style house with plaster walls and shingles over tongue and groove roofing ! So much more durable with the tongue and groove as apposed to 4x8 3/4 plywood that likes to blow off in 90 mph winds!
    And with the plaster walls I feel 100% safe from anything Mother Nature wants to conjure up! I just hope the 4 storied 2x4 framed condos, they built down the road, never end up showering my house with 100 mph pine projectiles!
    On the downside I can't even put a small nail in my walls to hang a picture! I have to drill a pinhole and slide the nail in! We too busted out a wall and exposed our kitchen to the living room! Being the cabinetman/carpentor I managed to trim everything out without resorting to drywall which I would rather not have delt with anyway!


    Here's where we stand today! You see I still have to finish the plint blocks and complete my antiquing of the faux beam covers! I made my own gluelam beam then made that beam cap you see there! the cieling in the original kitchen was 4 inches lower and smooth finished. See the textured cieling and then there's the smooth in the kitchen. We are going to install those decorative antigued brass panels to the kitchen cieling. The two walls I took out were where the beams are now! Lathe/wire mesh/stucco demo nightmare!


    Below is the original kitchen looking in the doorway that is not there now. The doorway was under the beam to the left in the above pic!



    See the drop in stove and the pantry oven? In the old pic?! I moved them to another wall completely. Made this with them:


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    WOW!!!
    Very nice...
    I like the colour of the wood... Great work!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    You know it! This house I've been calling home for 4 years now was built in 1957! Ranch style house with plaster walls and shingles over tongue and groove roofing ! So much more durable with the tongue and groove as apposed to 4x8 3/4 plywood that likes to blow off in 90 mph winds!
    And with the plaster walls I feel 100% safe from anything Mother Nature wants to conjure up! I just hope the 4 storied 2x4 framed condos, they built down the road, never end up showering my house with 100 mph pine projectiles!
    On the downside I can't even put a small nail in my walls to hang a picture! I have to drill a pinhole and slide the nail in! We too busted out a wall and exposed our kitchen to the living room! Being the cabinetman/carpentor I managed to trim everything out without resorting to drywall which I would rather not have delt with anyway!


    Here's where we stand today! You see I still have to finish the plint blocks and complete my antiquing of the faux beam covers! I made my own gluelam beam then made that beam cap you see there! the cieling in the original kitchen was 4 inches lower and smooth finished. See the textured cieling and then there's the smooth in the kitchen. We are going to install those decorative antigued brass panels to the kitchen cieling. The two walls I took out were where the beams are now! Lathe/wire mesh/stucco demo nightmare!
    Awesome Job Doug!

    You'll love this one. A small cottage that was built in the early 1900's with all indigenous wood. Rough cut real 2x4 and Red Cedar Tongue and Groove Paneling. I gutted this place down to the studs and reused all the paneling. A million nails pulled and a million scratches later. I had enough paneling left over that I made my own trim,too. There was damn near 100 years of varnish on the Paneling so I just turned it over and the back side was perfect and no bleed through, virgin surface that hadn't seen the light of day in 100 years. White Pine kitchen cabinets, hard wood floors and I was able to put a loft in with a Spiral Stair Case up to the Loft that over looked the living room. That was my "College House" I paid cash for it and re-did everything. New wiring, plumbing, heating/cooling, a few structural issues with the load bearing walls(rot), and the finish. Exterior was done in a fake wood, 4x8 sheets that was called a Cedar Grain Finish, I think.

    That was my graduation house because I learned how to do everything in that cottage. My logic being, or lack thereof was, I was going to do everything myself and even if I fucked up and ruined the place I owned it free and clear. I lived in the place while I did it, too. There was one point in the demo phase where you could see daylight through the exterior slats.

    I scored and was lucky there was an Amish Community near by that had a saw mill that still made rough cut real 2x4, 2x6 and 2x12 that I needed to come close to the sizes of the original framing. Did 90% of everything myself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kwame k View Post
    ... Tongue and Groove Paneling...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    ... stucco...
    What is cellulite on drywall?
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    Quote Originally Posted by kwame k View Post
    Awesome Job Doug!

    You'll love this one. A small cottage that was built in the early 1900's with all indigenous wood. There was damn near 100 years of varnish on the Paneling so I just turned it over and the back side was perfect and no bleed through, virgin surface that hadn't seen the light of day in 100 years. Did 90% of everything myself.
    Fun stuff! I worked on an old cottage house. The customer wanted everything to look original so he asked me to make the cabinets look as if they have been there for 110 years! New cabinets that look old so I did some major antiquing. I'll round up a few pictures for show and tell later.
    I came across a whole bunch of Walnut flooring long ago and every now and the build a jewelry box out of some of it to give away as a gift!

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    Quote Originally Posted by blonddgirl777 View Post
    What is cellulite on drywall?
    Your drywall has cellulite?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    Your drywall has cellulite?
    Time for a diet or maybe it needs to hit the gym.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    Your drywall has cellulite?
    Yes.
    We bought this house that was decorated in the 70's. In the basement, it's all "old tavern" style; A bar, rought iron lighting, barn wood on half of the walls (that we like) but the other half has cellulite on it. We hate it! The "Round Table Chevaliers" look is not our thing and the cottage cheese effert... Eeewww!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by kwame k View Post
    Time for a diet or maybe it needs to hit the gym.
    Even diet and the gym. won't work...
    It needs lipo.!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    ... build a jewelry box out of some of it to give away as a gift!
    Damn!
    That is very romantic...
    I also like recycling fabric. I made stuff out of a vintage wedding gown... Some hand made lace you never get to see anymore. There is something special when a material carries a piece of history!

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    Quote Originally Posted by blonddgirl777 View Post
    Yes.
    We bought this house that was decorated in the 70's. In the basement, it's all "old tavern" style; A bar, rought iron lighting, barn wood on half of the walls (that we like) but the other half has cellulite on it. We hate it! The "Round Table Chevaliers" look is not our thing and the cottage cheese effert... Eeewww!!!
    Sounds like a cool place nonetheless! we don't have many really old places here in FLA! Is this cellulite on the wood or the plaster? Still confused ..

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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    ... Is this cellulite on the wood or the plaster? Still confused ..
    No, on my butt! L.O.L.

    The wall has the half bottom made of barn wood (that is very nice) and the top half in stucco. And you can tell that they are sheets of stucco that can be removed.

    We want to make it into a music room with my piano, his drums and anything Jr. is gonna want to play. It will also be a playroom. Later, we will make a lounge/bar out of it. My husband and his father can do that stuff but we've been procrastinating...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    Sounds like a cool place nonetheless! we don't have many really old places here in FLA!
    You would really like this area...
    Lots of old houses (some, about 400 years old) and they are protected by a law that sais; "No turning wood into aluminum...". People that buy them are up for a lifetime project. They are expensive to buy and even more expensive (in time and money) to remodel.

    They are extremely beautiful with lots of history in them!

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    Kitchens done:

    Shop pic:







    This is a mica top ... not granite, a lot of people are going this cheaper route these days:
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    The customer was looking a bit suprised that all I was thinking about was taking pictures of this image in the woodgrain of a drawer. I build kitchens all year long always seeing things in the woodgrain ... this is the spookies image ever!



    It's there in the left side of the bottom drawer:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    The customer was looking a bit suprised that all I was thinking about was taking pictures of this image in the woodgrain of a drawer. I build kitchens all year long always seeing things in the woodgrain ... this is the spookies image ever!...
    I clearly see a man's face, sideways... His eyes are closed and he's smiling...
    Yes, sssspookie!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by blonddgirl777 View Post
    I clearly see a man's face, sideways... His eyes are closed and he's smiling...
    Yes, sssspookie!!!
    Almost like he's laid back in a coffin!

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    Also, could be a Catholic nun... With the hair and neck veil!
    Dead!
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    Quote Originally Posted by blonddgirl777 View Post
    Also, could be a Catholic nun... With the hair and neck veil!
    Dead!
    :eek:
    Ok,No More Coffee For You.

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    Building this kept me out of trouble for a few weeks!

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    Quote Originally Posted by blonddgirl777 View Post
    Damn!
    That is very romantic...
    I also like recycling fabric. I made stuff out of a vintage wedding gown... Some hand made lace you never get to see anymore. There is something special when a material carries a piece of history!
    PM me your address, I got an old wedding gown leftover from a comedy sketch you can have if you want it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Douglas T. View Post
    Building this kept me out of trouble for a few weeks!
    I done decks before.. are you gonna rent an airless sprayer and hit it with Okon or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GAR View Post
    I done decks before.. are you gonna rent an airless sprayer and hit it with Okon or something?
    I'm leaving that up to the customer! She is going to stain it. Probably with a sprayer!

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    Still Going Strong At 46.

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