The Historic District

here it is http://pinterest.com/pin/8936899232959998/ <-- click here. i tried to post a picture but i couldnt do it.

no, i know what clover is looking for. its an outside corner that "dies into" the door casing/trim. picture making an outside corner with your top cap, but one piece will be a "return" piece. it will have the same profile as the longer piece. the profile will be facing the door t...

ill look into that! i had a very good friend who authored books on american architecture. an american house was her book. what a great lady she was. she lived in a tudor that was actually a house built over top of and around an earlier house! very interesting. i bet Mary Foley would have LOVED this ...

yep, southern yellow pine. loblolly pine.

huh... i found some of these in my basement!

thanks, Chaz. i have a "have-a-heart" trap ill grab him with, ive relocated squatting red squirrells with it. mothballs, eh? walmart here i come!
Darren

anyone? im sure i cant have an original idea! maybe no one has done it yet and i will be the first! insulating this old house is dirty and difficult. everyting in the world is in the way and i end up having to cut the pieces in half. but i may have ordered too much insulation and may double up as mu...

well, im not (even remotely) done insulating the basement ceiling and theres talk of remodeling the kitchen. i want to use the old "wavy" glass panes being stored in the attic for the cabinet doors. i think it would look nice and new, but still retain a bit of colonialism. our kitchen now ...

im doing all three things, but not quite in that order. i am insulating the floor now- its cold, i have to do this now. il be having icynene sprayed on the top 2 feet of the walls after i finish the floor. then in the spring ill hang gutters, dig up the grade around the house and drop a membrane int...

nope, no lathe, just foamboard cut to fit inbetween the joist logs, pressed firmly to the bottom of the floor. maybe a few screws w/ disc washers along the long edges. thats all i can really do at this point theres just too much working against me to be able to do this conventionally. and now, after...