I finished the baseboards near the front of the stairs and moved to the wall under the stairs. I had already refinished these baseboards but I’m refinishing the floors and decided to take them off to make sure I get under the molding when I’m sanding and it is easier to finish the baseboards […]

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In my previous posts I showed you the little antique dresser I was working on. When I took the replacement hardware off I came across an odd screw and nut. As I unscrewed it I was surprised that the nut was just soldered wire. How ingenious if you didn’t have a nut […]

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I finished the antique dresser I was working on. I have the original hardware back on. Some of the hardware holes had been filled with dowels and I had to knock those out. Otherwise they went back to their original places easily.
The picture makes the dresser look too shiny but in reality […]

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Busy, busy. I got my house-number sign restored, repainted and back up.
Since I’m limited in what I can do because of a (hopefully temporary) knee injury, I’m tackling a project I meant to do long ago. When my husband’s grandfather died we rescued a dresser that was used in the garage as a […]

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