The long march towards a completed dining room wainscoting continues.  At this point, the only thing I have left to do is finish up some caulking and do some last minute sanding.  Then it’ll be PAINT time.  Right now the plan is to spray the first two coats of primer and then we’ll brush on […]

Hope everyone had a great weekend! Lisa, the baby and I went up to Northeast PA on Friday evening to visit my mom and to spend some time at the local church bazaar. We’ll be posting about that stuff later this week… CAUTION: There will be pictures of delicious ethnic food. Consider yourself warned. Saturday […]

Back to life, back to reality (Thanks Soul II Soul).  After taking off five glorious days from work, it’s back to my day job.  Oh to be retired at 32.  Maybe if this blog thing works out I can retire early, like 70 instead of 72.  I know, I know, I’m getting ahead of myself. […]

Major dining room progress this week!  It’s actually starting to look sorta close to done!  This past weekend I was able to start and mostly finish installing the MDF raised panels onto the walls.  I only have the two sections remaining under the window to wrap up and then I’ll be ready to finish up […]

Thought it may be helpful to bring all of our readers up to speed on what we have left to do in our raised panel wainscoting project in our dining room. Just yesterday, I was able to get another small wall section installed. (via my instagram: john_ohfs) That leaves one more long wall section.  This […]

Here’s a great post on how NOT to do proper edge trimming with a router. So, I have three walls left after our latest post. Last night I decided to work on this little section… The general strategy I was thinking for these last few walls was to leave the panel section a little long […]

Finally back to a normal work schedule for the time being!  Last week, I only managed one real honest to goodness post.  Unfortunately, I was working 12 hour shifts trying to get a project done.  It ended up working out well, but my writing and project time paid the price.  Oh well, it is what […]

Time for me to put my geek face on and talk about a software program that I use a LOT for work and home projects, Microsoft Excel.  If you don’t use this program and it’s seems intimidating, it’s fairly simple to learn and I encourage you to give it a try.  It’s perfect for shopping lists […]

Another weekend gone and more progress on our raised panel wainscoting project to tell you about.  Last week we finished up the window wall… and by finished up, I mean just the framing.  The MDF inserts and the bolection molding will come at a later point.  First I want to get the entire poplar frame […]

After a fairly relaxing weekend with our wonderful moms and my beautiful wife, I was able to spend some free time on our dining room paneling project late Sunday afternoon.  So far we’ve removed the old chair rail molding, added an outlet and repaired the wall damage from the wiring.  Now we’re finally ready to […]