Anybody doing hobbies or home repair this winter?
 

We are putting up wainescoating to the thin backer board in our hallway that leads to our basement. Should take at least a month for me to stain and put three coats of tung oil on everything. I have ten packages to do. Then DH can install. We have two other areas in our home where we have wainescoating.

Sam,

To name a few winter projects:

*Finish sanding and painting the camper shell.

*Remove HiLo cabinests, repair bad sections of ceiling panels, remove outer skin of existing ceiling panels, then glue [4] 4'x8' ceiling panels to existing ceiling and paint.

*Completely remove everything from work shop, remove peg board, fill in cracks and paint the walls, install several feet of shelving using 1"x12" boards from ceiling to floor. Paint two work benches.

I may also install a radio in the HiLo and add a TV outlet to the little outside dropdown workstation.

That should keep me occupied this winter!

Happy New Year to Sam and all our Forum Friends!


Jerry & Carol Curtis
Fredericksburg, TX
2406 T

Hobbies,home repair
 

Jerry,I got tired just reading through your list!! I actually have a few more projects to do this winter. Presently DH and I are doing a hutch restoration for our neighbor. It is was in sad shape. Lots to glue and we had to strip paint off of it to uncover some beautiful oak and detail. I'm headed over there now and I will take a picture. Thank god for my industrial respirator that we purchased for our HiLo restoration. He was given this garage kept neglectful piece. I decided the punishment for whom ever painted it was to sit and watch me strip paint off of it for eight hrs. I sanded off all i could in a prior work session.

I am going to design and build an anti-gravity machine that will prevent all that junk from building up in our basement. Just in case that doesn't work I will start removing some of the junk that is already there.

winter project,hobbies
 

If you haven't used it in a year donate it or throw it out. Been cleaning a few cupboards and following my own advice. My dream would be to go fulltime and get rid of he house. Less to clean and no lawn or maintenance issues.

Winter project completed
 

Attachment 2111This bottom hutch is our neighbors. He rescued from a unheated garage. It almost went out for the garbage. He likes things that our old and show their age. Dh and I spent at least 100hrs. sanding stripping off maybe 100 yr. old paint. Dh had to work his magic with glue and some replacement luan. My neighbor is thrilled how it turned out. Just have to figure out a door latch that will keep the left cupboard door shut. He has already loaded it up with his fine dinner wear ect.


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