Category Archives: Don’t Hire a Professional

Scraping Paint – DIY – Video

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Robert

In a few of our posts, we’ve mentioned our multi-year battle with painting our crazy old house. When we drop the fact that we’ve been painting the exterior of our house for two years into light conversation, people usually give … Continue reading →

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Fixing Up an Old Cigar Table – Part 3 – Staining

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Robert

For the last few days, I’ve been working on cleaning up this old cigar table for a coworker of mine. She had asked that I replace the wood screws and tighten up the wobble in the legs, but I thought … Continue reading →

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Fixing Up an Old Cigar Table – Part 2 – Sanding Spindles, Reassembly, and Fabrication

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Robert

As I mentioned in the last post, the spindles of this table, its legs for those of you at home, were quite tricky to sand. My trusty Dewalt palm sander did a phenomenal job removing the old paint and previous … Continue reading →