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Five Ways to Add Curb Appeal to Your Home With the abundance of homes currently on the market, the buyer is king. Though home sales can be tough in this environment, there are several ways to stay ahead of the game, and it has everything to do with first impressions. Think about a…
How to Build A Window Seat Window seats are and attractive way to decorate alcoves or add useful and attractive detail to a deep dog house dormer. A window seat, in order to look right, should fit wall to wall and stop below the window trim which usually means customer work. Stopping at the window sill…
Rain Screen And Moisture Barrier Dear Concord Carpenter, I own a Dutch Colonial style two-story house. It is brick on the lower story and 1960s era Masonite type siding on the upper story. Roof is Gambrel. The windows were replaced by the previous owner and do not have visible sills or casing. I want to…
Making a Shaker Peg Coat Rack Everyone seems to appreciate the quality and simplistic utilitarian style of Shaker craftsmanship. It’s super easy to make your own Shaker style coat rack with maple pegs. Here’s how: What you will need: A board [e.g. 1×4] of the length you need Enough pegs to fill your needs. A…
Proper Painting Preparation: A poor paint job often shows up after the painter is gone and the check has cleared. Most paint jobs fail because an important step in the preparation phase was skipped or done poorly. A poor paint job often manifests itself in paint failure such as; flaking, chipping, paint peeling in sheets, bleeding spots…
If your a follower of this blog your aware that I did some work for Extreme Home Makeover at their Maynard, MA project. The project was in the winter of 2008. See 2008 Maynard’s Extreme Makeover Edition. I’m a fan of what they do and recentl;y heard of this story: Superior Walls of America is…
ODL® Offers The Most Doorglass Designs To Fit Any Style, Budget, Décor Five New Decorative Doorglass Designs Introduced ODL, Inc., a leading building products supplier of decorative and clear doorglass and entry treatments, has introduced five new and affordable decorative doorglass designs. ODL is sure to have a doorglass that can compliment any home and…
Urethane Moldings And Trim: Side-by-side it’s hard to tell the difference between real wood mouldings and urethane woodgrain mouldings. However, long term the determination is easy: urethane products resist warping, rotting and insect infestations, so they hold up longer and better than real wood mouldings. “In our woodgrain pieces the mold is cast from pieces…
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