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And you make your own furniture? 
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Apr 22, 2010 02:22
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Wandering Knitter posted:And you make your own furniture? I'm getting weak in the knees :[
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Apr 22, 2010 05:03
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gezellig posted:I'm getting weak in the knees :[ It's like I've discovered a brand new fetish. Hard working men.
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Apr 22, 2010 05:11
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Wandering Knitter posted:It's like I've discovered a brand new fetish. Not to discredit his hard working-ness, and I could be mistaken anyways, but I think he simply finished his own pre-built, but unfinished, furniture.
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Apr 22, 2010 05:20
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Slugworth posted:Not to discredit his hard working-ness, and I could be mistaken anyways, but I think he simply finished his own pre-built, but unfinished, furniture. It's still a hell of a lot hotter than buying the cheapest premade poo poo from walmart. I think some of us from the parenting/pregnancy thread have started a 'Slug Blade Fan Club' and if he's not careful we just might invade and make his house our new compound/base of operations. I for one would be ok with a "Big Love" style arrangement.  Slung Blade
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Apr 22, 2010 05:25
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It's true, these chairs and bookcases are pre-made, and I'm just staining them. But I do make furniture. The stuff I make just tends to be a little more.... durable.   Iron and granite.  e: drat, the tabletop is uneven, the stone and the iron aren't attached except by anti-slip padding, and it must have shifted when I moved. No matter, easy to fix.
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Apr 22, 2010 06:14
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I stand by my brand new fetish.  Soon the internet will be flooded with "naughty" videos of men working and then cooking dinner. I will make millions.
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Apr 22, 2010 06:33
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If working on cars, fixing home appliances and doing minor woodwork repairs counts, please send me a copy of your standard contract. I have no shame and a repertoire of innuendo relating to caulk.
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Apr 22, 2010 16:34
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Man I wish I knew women in real life that felt the way you pregnant ladies do  Here's that shot with the railing in place that I keep promising but keep forgetting.  My chairs are done.  Looks pretty good with the table my friends gave me.   Don't look too close though, there are some runs and some bad spots. I have a lousy paintbrush hand, I'm better with spray painting.
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Apr 24, 2010 01:04
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Slung Blade posted:Man I wish I knew women in real life that felt the way you pregnant ladies do Hey!  Those chairs turned out lovely.
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Apr 24, 2010 02:53
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Wandering Knitter posted:Hey! Oh, sorry. Wandering Knitter posted:Those chairs turned out lovely. Thank you 
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Apr 24, 2010 04:35
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Slung Blade posted:Good sir, I like the cut of your mixer.
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Apr 24, 2010 04:38
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Will work for lessons in craftsmanship. Slung Blade, joining the fan club. But not for sexual reasons. Sexual favors though, maybe.
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Apr 24, 2010 04:56
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M_Gargantua posted:Will work for lessons in craftsmanship. Hey man, we all saw that pot roast. No one blames you.
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Apr 24, 2010 05:22
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Yeesh your house turned out nice, I love every bit of it I'm also super jealous, I'm renovating my house and have to do it at a fraction of your budget edit: If you ever decide you need more work space in your kitchen, it wouldn't be very hard to make a pull-out butcher block surface in that top drawer to the right of your sink. Here's mine  Click here for the full 453x604 image. The ladies (my wife) love it dyne fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Apr 24, 2010 |
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Apr 24, 2010 14:09
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I didn't know you could use woodstain on veneer furniture- was it just the same stuff you used on the chairs? Your house looks gorgeous and already very lived-in (that's a compliment, I'm not calling you a slob). It looks like a house that needs knitted things... or quilts... I see a DIY female invasion in your future.
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Apr 24, 2010 17:49
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The veneer was unstained, so yeah, you can stain it. It's just wood same as everything else. And yes, same stain on the bookcase as the chairs. Thanks everyone, that's awful nice of you to say. I worked in the garage all day on sunday. Rebuilt my old credenza as a staging area.  Built my tractor cart / wheel barrow.  Put the desk back together.  That's three bags of styrofoam in the foreground.   Stuff up on the shelves. I also changed to my summer tires and fixed a broken headlight.  So much cardboard. At least I can recycle this.  Put together a little storage bench for the deck.   Saturday, I bought and put together a new home theatre. This is the source of a lot of that styrofoam.  Who doesn't like pictures of horses? 
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Apr 28, 2010 04:39
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I problem with the central vac is that I vacuum up so much gross poo poo and having that gross stuff get stuck in the pipes and having to take the pipes apart to unclog it is just too much.
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Apr 28, 2010 05:53
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Slung Blade posted:
1. thank you for recycling 2. thank you for properly securing your load Where I live, 99% of people are unable to do either, apparently.
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Apr 29, 2010 15:31
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Slung Blade posted:Who doesn't like pictures of horses? Look at that sky  Only problem I have with your property is how flat it is around there; having grown up around mountains, the terrain looks really boring to me. I envy your isolation and your awesome house, though!
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Apr 29, 2010 18:01
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ab0z posted:1. thank you for recycling I used to be a courier (that's why I have the rack) so it's almost second nature to me. Though I used to do that before I drove for a living too. Third Murderer posted:Look at that sky They never really come across in the pictures, but you can see the mountains on the horizon in person. The commute is nice too, especially on a sunny day after it's snowed in the mountains, they're so pretty.
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Apr 30, 2010 16:36
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So jealous. Very nice job with the house, everything looks great and I love the colors you used.
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May 1, 2010 20:01
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Hey thanks. I'm really happy with the colours and the wood tones and everything, I'm always glad to spend time surrounded by all of it. So this week I started organizing the den and the master bedroom. PC games, magazines, old nintendo stuff.  Some of my books.  DVDs, music.  Cleared out 80% of the boxes in my room. I can't get rid of the rest until my other bookcases arrive. I also set up my old TV upstairs. My reception is way better on the second floor.  I'm going to put the antenna up here, route it into a signal booster, and send it to the basement where I can distribute it throughout the rest of the house. Also, built an ikea drawer thing to put my stereo on.  And today I baked bread.  Mmm, whole wheat. 
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May 2, 2010 23:48
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that looks yummy, is this the wrong thread to ask for your recipe? Also you're going to need about 15 more of those book shelves for all my books and console games. The recliner in the master bedroom is a nice touch. Then I can nurse some where other than in bed.  Slung Blade
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May 3, 2010 00:35
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Let's be best friends 
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May 3, 2010 01:30
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Ninadene posted:that looks yummy, is this the wrong thread to ask for your recipe? It's not my recipe, I took it from (I think) the GWS bread thread, or maybe the king arthur website: * 1-1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons water * 2 tablespoons vegetable oil * 2 teaspoons salt * 1/3 cup packed brown sugar * 4-1/4 cups whole wheat flour * 3 tablespoons nonfat dry milk * 2 teaspoons active dry yeast I like it a little less dense than using just whole wheat flour, so I substitute half the WW flour for just regular all purpose flour. Wandering Knitter posted:Let's be best friends D'aww
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May 3, 2010 02:11
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It's like you're living my dream life. I'm actually very close to that myself, but I have a wife and a kid, so can't go splurging on a new home theatre system and random tools. Stupid wife and kid. Would you mind giving a few rough details on how much some of the costs associated with construction, Slung Blade? I'm starting to price out basement excavations and septic and the like for our own acreage out in Saskatchewan, so a rough idea would be really handy. We're going modular though, as we're miles and miles and miles away from anyone.
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May 6, 2010 16:37
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It was all handled by my builder, and while I do have some of the specifics, I can't find the drat spec sheet right now, I think it got buried in with all the rest of my papers in the move. Regardless, when I was pricing out a modular home myself, I contacted a couple of cement contractors to get some estimates, and the results were alarming. To dig a full basement for a (I think) 1300 sqft bungalow, and make a 4 car garage pad was going to cost me 70 grand. House would have been ~130k or ~150k, plus another 30k for all the utility trenching, septic tank, and extra stuff. Then probably another 20-50k to get the garage built. Then at least 10k to hire a crane to drop the modular onto the foundation. (this is why I went with a custom home build, for a little more money, I get a vastly nicer house and I get it built exactly the way I want it. Hopefully the concrete folks in your area are cheaper. Make sure you call around to different places. Also, check with the local home moving companies in your area, they usually have stock on their storage lot of houses they've moved off their old foundations for very reasonable prices. You'll have to do repairs once it's on the new foundation on your land, but it's a good way to save some money if you don't mind having a used house.
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May 6, 2010 17:23
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So things have been crazy around here lately. The 30 day mark came and in its wake left a trail of tears and pain in my rear end. In the kitchen, I got the granite spacer for behind the stove, and the tile folks came back to fix the edge tiles. The guy who did it to start with used the wrong saw (ceramic instead of glass) and cut the tile wrong side up, so it chipped pretty bad on the painted side. Also one was cracked. So that's all good, looks way better. I didn't take any pictures because it's more something you would notice when you look at it in real life, not in a picture. In the garage, I noticed a small leak.   It turns out that one of the fittings buried in the spray foam insulation somehow managed to break all laws of plumbing.  This little loving tee, or more accurately, the one that this one replaced, only leaked when the faucet in the master bath was running. I can't explain it, and my builder's plumber can't explain it, it defies all logic. If there's a leak, it should leak harder when it's not running, what with there being more pressure. It wasn't running back from further up the pipe either, we checked.  So that's ok, no major damage done. Except for the hole in the ceiling of the garage, but that's alright. The spray foam guys are coming back tomorrow to re-fill the hole; it's been a week, I've not seen any more of a leak, and it seems to have dried out properly. Maybe next week the drywallers and painters can come back and patch it all up.  I got my other two bookcases. Hopefully I can get them stained and sealed this weekend.  Put up a queen sized bed in the southwest bedroom so I can have guests sleep over.  Truly a Frankenstein's monster of a bed. The mattress and box spring are from my aunt and uncle, the support frame is from my grandparents, the headboard is from my best friend's parents, and the new sheets and comforter were a gift from my mother and father.  Hung my first picture next to the bar area.  I think it looks pretty good there.  Personally, things haven't been going so poo poo hot either. I don't want to turn this into an e/n thread, but my dad (just turned 55) was diagnosed with late stage pancreatic cancer by a general practitioner last week after getting a c/t scan after having a small kidney stone. My uncle, a well respected surgeon and all around highly intelligent person, took at look at the info at hand and thinks he was misdiagnosed as just having pancreatitis (which, honestly, makes a lot of sense, given that dad has zero symptoms of having advanced holy-poo poo-you'll-be-dead-in-a-month cancer and still feels perfectly healthy). So yeah, been a bit of a rollercoaster lately. Hopefully my uncle is right, and I'll be able to enjoy my dad's company for many years, but until the cancer specialists in town have a look, we won't know for sure. I'm not going to dwell on it in here any further until I hear one way or the other, but I wanted to get it off my chest. Also, to explain my absence if I vanish for a couple of weeks.
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May 21, 2010 05:28
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Sorry to hear it man. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like everyone I know has some soft of cancer thing going on in their family at the moment. I wish him the best of luck and a speedy recovery. That plumbing problem is really weird... Is it possible the additional pressure of having the tap off was pressing the hose tighter against the "T?" When the tap is on, the pressure is relieved, so maybe it started leaking out then? That's my theory as someone with no practical plumbing experience whatsoever.
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May 21, 2010 21:26
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Hmm, might be possible. The plumber did re-crimp the band around the pipe a couple of times though, and that didn't fix it. Also, thanks.
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May 21, 2010 21:30
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Slung Blade posted:Hmm, might be possible. The plumber did re-crimp the band around the pipe a couple of times though, and that didn't fix it.
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May 21, 2010 22:07
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Yeah they just cut the whole thing out, added a spacer, and put in a new tee fitting.
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May 21, 2010 23:42
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I can't believe you can only access the pipes by cutting a hole in the ceiling. Was it designed that way? 
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May 22, 2010 00:01
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Wandering Knitter posted:I can't believe you can only access the pipes by cutting a hole in the ceiling. Was it designed that way?
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May 22, 2010 00:14
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Yeah, conduit and piping is always buried. Fortunately, drywall is nice and easy to patch and paint over. True to their word, the sprayfoam guys were here this morning.  Now just to get it patched.
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May 22, 2010 03:09
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I had no idea! Houses are just mysterious things that I sleep in. I'm a bit baffled after that.
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May 22, 2010 04:42
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I can't believe your garage ceiling is textured, that's just silly. Most garages in new construction here either get a layer of primer, or just a half-assed layer of mud. In regards to Wandering Knitters comment, I always approve of new construction that leaves the basement ceiling unfinished. Makes the forgotten wiring/etc so much easier to get done after the closing of the house.
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May 22, 2010 04:44
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I asked my builder to have the garage painted. It was already drywalled and taped/mudded, so why not have the professional painters do it. Way less headache than me doing it myself (also I am a lousy painter). And they just kind of threw in the ceiling texturing. It was pretty cheap, all things considered. Tomorrow: get those loving bookcases stained. e: oh, also, basement is unfinished and will remain so for eternity (I hope)
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