I have worked 3 days sanding, smoothing, putting coat after coat of shellac on my white-oak wood trim from around the windows. It was looking good. Maybe one or two more coats would get the color to that rich, reddish brown I was looking for. I decided to leave it outside on […]

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We jumped in the car, put in the audio book of the latest (and last) Harry Potter book and headed for the Allegheny National Forest. We drove through Warren and then followed the river down the forest until we got back to Titusville, then home.
As we saw blocks and blocks of gorgeous Victorian and […]

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I stopped in at the hardware last evening to get my window sash cord for my double-hung windows. I asked the employee working the area if they had sash chain. They did. I looked at it and asked if they had kits or the parts you’d need to change over to chain […]

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Today was the day to work on the front windows. I stripped the woodwork a while ago but never took the windows apart. Hmmm…I took the moldings off and got one of the windows out and I can see there is a bit more stripping to do. I’ll need new rope, […]

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