my precioussss....

cindy found these treasures behind the hall paneling we pulled down. that dollar bill must have shrunk from being in the wall for so many years. or else it's just because people were smaller back then (clinically proven fact).

anybody know if a leon roberts from 1976 is worth any money?

taking down ugly hall paneling.

demolition time...a wall is gone.

in the duplex apartment, on the bottom floor, the space is separated by a couple of walls, a closet, and a small hallway area. all of that is gone now, and our kitchen looks kind of like an unfinished hunting cabin at the moment. lots of plaster dust and trash bags full of debris. the bottom picture is melissa smiling through the pain of stepping on a nail.

the finished tread edges. attached.

refinishing pieces of the stairs; a collage.

this is a bunch of pics of me working on the edges of the stair treads. after we took them off, we used a chemical stripper to take off a few layers of paint, then a palm sander to take off the rest. then a couple of layers of stain to match the treads. the chemical stripper ate through a pair of gloves and ruined a couple of scrapers, but that just proves it works.