Browsing Category "Hallways & Staircase"
Secrets Of A Stainer
By     |    Mar 10, 2013
Posted in: Guest Bedroom, Hallways & Staircase, How-To, Master Bedroom, Trim Work     |    2 Comments

Secrets Of A Stainer

Today we’re unleashing upon you all our secrets.  Well…no…not ALL our secrets, otherwise what kind of incentive do you have to keep reading?!  Today, I’m revealing to you our “secrets of a stainer”.  Did anybody get the Emily Henderson Secrets of a Stylist spoof in there?  I’m sure a few of you die hard Design Star fans out there caught on.  Anyway, Colby and I were staining and polying monsters [...]

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Pine Hard: How To Install Wide Pine Flooring
By     |    Feb 19, 2013
Posted in: Floored, Hallways & Staircase, How-To     |    No Comments

Pine Hard: How To Install Wide Pine Flooring

Two things…one…I’ve been watching ALOT of Die Hard lately (hence the blog post title) and two…we’ve laid down the pine flooring in our upstairs hallway and took it from this (a laminate mess): To this (a wide pine masterpiece): I’m not gonna lie, we tackled this project a couple weeks ago but I’ve been dreading posting about it because it’s kind of a boring “how to” subject.  But I’m going [...]

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Hall Floor Re-Refinishing
By     |    Nov 26, 2012
Posted in: Floored, Hallways & Staircase     |    No Comments

Hall Floor Re-Refinishing

It’s time to put your thinking caps memory caps on, cuz we’re going back…back in a New York Groove.  What?!  Every good blog post deserves a little Kiss.  Anyway…serious time now.  Or about as serious as we get around these parts.  But do you remember when we refinished our hall floor?  The floor along the staircase?  To recap…we sanded/stained it, then struggled along polying the floor with a water based [...]

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Bats In The Belfry
By     |    Oct 22, 2012
Posted in: Crafty Time, Halloween Hijinks, Hallways & Staircase, How-To     |    2 Comments

Bats In The Belfry

The other night I had one of those “whoa” moments.  It’s the end…I repeat…the end of October.  What happened?!  Where did the month go?!  Or more importantly…why haven’t I decorated for Halloween yet?!  I’m wasting precious Halloween decor time here since there’s only a discreet window of opportunity for Halloween decor.  I hadn’t even crafted a single spooky decoration yet.  What gives?!  It’s like I don’t even know who I [...]

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One Project Closer Before And After
By     |    Jul 12, 2012
Posted in: Hallways & Staircase     |    4 Comments

One Project Closer Before And After

Tonight, I’m switching things up a little bit.  You know, kind of like when Varitek (my recently retired favorite Red Sox player) switches from batting righty to lefty.  I’m hopping over to the other side of the plate, taking a little DIY break to look back on what we’ve already done.  I learned about the One Project Closer Before and After Contest via one of my favorite blogs, Ten June, [...]

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Roped It
By     |    May 3, 2012
Posted in: Crafty Time, Hallways & Staircase, How-To, Light Up My Life, Re-Purposed     |    7 Comments

Roped It

The other night, while Colby was away working at a construction show, I decided it was high time for some craftiness.  We’re talking a serious impulse craft project going on here.  I had a mess of leftover rope from the CD crate project and a boring lampshade that was attached to the hallway light fixture so I decided to go to town. Sorry for the weird light.  It was all [...]

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Mayday Mayday
By     |    May 1, 2012
Posted in: Floored, Hallways & Staircase, Oops Moments     |    6 Comments

Mayday Mayday

I’m sending out an international radiotelephone…errrrr…blog signal announcing our distress!  Our floor is peeeeeeeeling!  Our beautiful just finished floor that used to look like this just weeks ago: Is doing this: Those are dog scratches large sections of poly peeling up.  See: Floor poly film in hand.  Oh and did anyone else pick up that I called Mayday on May Day?!  What a coincidence?!  She said sarcastically as she knew [...]

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Hall Floor Refinishing Part Two
By     |    Apr 15, 2012
Posted in: Floored, Hallways & Staircase     |    4 Comments

Hall Floor Refinishing Part Two

After a long weekend of ridiculously amounts of polying the hallway floor, I’m super stoked to reveal the finished hallway floor. Well…kind of finished hallway floor.  There’s still the heating vent to spray paint and put back in the floor.  And then there’s that weirdly, light colored floor section that I want need to sand down, re-stain, and re-poly.  But other than that we’re good to go.  But back to [...]

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My Maple Mistake
By     |    Apr 8, 2012
Posted in: Floored, Hallways & Staircase, How-To     |    6 Comments

My Maple Mistake

Lately, it’s felt like we’ve fallen off the DIY wagon.  It’s been at least a month since I painted anything, our house has been clean…like no dust kind of clean, and it hasn’t stunk like polyurethane.  It’s weird.  And oddly doesn’t feel like home without those things.  But we’re back in the proverbial saddle and started refinishing the hall floor which will later lead into refinishing the living room floor.  [...]

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How To Install Balusters
By     |    Mar 15, 2012
Posted in: Hallways & Staircase, How-To     |    6 Comments

How To Install Balusters

If there was a tagline to this post in addition to the title it would definitely be “How To Install Balusters…The Angie & Colby Way”.  By no means are we experts or even pretend to be.  We just do what works for us at the time, usually after a little research, hope for the best and blog about it in the end.  We adore how our baluster project turned out [...]

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