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Monthly Archives: September 2011

Pocketed

September 8, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

With the continued help of a West Philly Tool Library nail gun, the pocket door is pretty much framed. These guns are huge: The pocket door framing comes as a […]

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Philly Bike Love: Parking Corrals

September 22, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

If you’ve been in Center City lately, you may have noticed two temporary bike parking corrals sponsored by the Mayor’s Office and the Bicycle Coalition for Parking Day. This one […]

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One Down, Two To Go

September 14, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Tonight we got the first coat of joint compound on everything and taped all the joints. For all the plaster joints we used the powder setting-type joint compound. It’s stronger, […]

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Move Over, Smoke Detector

September 19, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

The hardwired SD in the orange bedroom ceiling was a casualty of the closet project… You can see the black rectangular hole in the pic below- it was way too […]

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Little Bedroom Surprise (?)

September 15, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Based on this picture, I’m not sure if this is a surprise or not… Um… We decided to replace the window in the little bedroom (btw we really need to […]

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Lay Out

September 1, 2011by madisonsquare 2 Comments

We laid out the closets tonight for framing- red carpet sample is the orange bedroom closet, purple is for the little bedroom, & linen at the bottom of the photo. […]

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