Well, I’m back to work on the house.  Those 6 months of my knee problem ended in surgery and now I seem to be fine.  I should not have tried to finish a project by over doing it.  I just wanted it done and I paid the price.  Pace yourself.
(Recap) My plan is to do […]

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My new year’s resolution is to get my floors refinished.  I had a 5-month delay because of my knee injury.  It is still going to be extremely hard to get down on my knees to work on the floor.  But to push me along I ordered 6 gallons of Waterlox that has arrived and that […]

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Kelly Kuppersmith of Athens, GA sent me pictures of the linoleum he found in his house. Click on the thumbnail below for a slideshow of his photos.   Via email……
(I thought they were pretty cool. The “rug” that was in my dining room was covered by a newspaper dated Sept 19, 1965.)

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*Regarding my post about splintered floors I posted earlier in the year.
I’ve tried many methods to fix the splintered floor. One is working pretty good but the fix doesn’t match color-wise. I took raw, hard shellac buttons and cracked them up and placed them over the deep slivered area. I took […]

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