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Tag Archives: finishing

Yellow Door, Mud Galore

September 26, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

The yellow door in the little bedroom has made it into so many blog photos I might miss it when it’s gone. Pre-demo: Missing a wall: GWB & mud. Oh […]

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The Man With The Mud

September 27, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Final mudding and sanding is best done with some daylight and direct lighting that isn’t behind a plastic dropcloth, but a portable worklight works just as well: We have been […]

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Spackley Mud Fun

December 2, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

A night of spackle/ plastering/ mudding last night left us too tired to even post. Rare. So here’s the update you’ve been waiting for…. Remember the lump in our hall […]

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SAT Question…

December 7, 2011by madisonsquare 2 Comments

Is to As Is to . . . . . Acceptable Answers: A) using up supplies = closer to finishing projects B) using up supplies = time for a home […]

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Progress In Plaster

December 6, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

Our plaster adventure in the little bedroom has gone from this lumptastic mess (most obvious on the ceiling): To this: Evidence of the sanding extravaganza currently happening in here: To […]

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Poly Parade

October 25, 2011by madisonsquare Leave a comment

So. Yesterday the first poly I tried on the shelves was a spray-on type… Like spray paint can. But it left these weird cloudy splotches on one side of our […]

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