Japanese Shed Build Timelapse!
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by Anna
5M ago
We have finished our Japanese-inspired DIY 2-Story Shed! We hope you enjoy the video ..read more
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The kitchen Floor is not level
Building Modern – A Modern DIY Renovation Blog
by Anna
3y ago
Prior to purchasing our house, we could easily see with the naked eye that the floor in the foyer was not level…this was also the case for the area near/inside the pantry in the kitchen. In the foyer, the floor sloped down to the right toward the master bedroom wall. In the kitchen, it sloped down toward the foyer wall. The slope in the floor over by the pantry – the level’s bubble maxed out to one side is probably not a good thing. After we demolished the kitchen floor, we discovered that the area toward the center of the room was also not level. In this instance, the floor was not slo ..read more
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Carpenter bee trap
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by Anna
4y ago
I’m going to divert attention away from the kitchen and move to the outside of the house for a bit. You know who loves our house? Well, spiders clearly do because of the webs all over the exterior… but you know who else? Carpenter bees. Yep, carpenter bees love to nom on our cedar sided house. This was a brand new piece of trim just maybe an hour old. When you have carpenter bees, they not only make their own holes/ homes in your structure, they lay their eggs there – and then wood peckers start trying to get at the larvae and create even more damage. They ate through the new trim (which was ..read more
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What we’ve learned from installing our hardwood floors
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by Anna
4y ago
I went through a good number of points regarding flooring instillation in the last few posts, (like running the floor on the diagonal, getting around obstacles, and fixing bad nails) but there are a few more things that I should mention. One point – because the flooring is on the diagonal, you might bang up your walls with the nail gun mallet: Second point – I mentioned in the last post about making sure the boards line up when going around obstacles (like our closet wall): The biggest point I’d like to make about what we learned during the process of installing our floors – was the issue of ..read more
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Repairing a broken porch roof joist
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by Anna
4y ago
We had a cherry tree land on our back porch. The side joist was pretty smashed but it seamed to be the only substantial damage to the entire structure. This should be a triangle: We had a service come and remove the tree. So now we needed to fix the broken roof joist. Here’s Spencer’s dad helping by removing the old joist: Already better without the broken joist pulling the roof ceiling boards down. The roof boards looked to be in pretty good shape and the tar felt was only slightly ripped. Since this was a porch, we decided to go with the simple solution: just replace the end joists tha ..read more
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Removing the tree from the back porch
Building Modern – A Modern DIY Renovation Blog
by Anna
4y ago
We have a cherry tree on our back porch. It came very close to the skylight but missed by an inch or so (the skylight is plastic by the way). Spencer and his dad insisted that they could remove the tree. I thought otherwise. What do you wear for tree removal? I’m going to say 15 year old jeans. Their electric chainsaw couldn’t make it through the branch. They quickly gave up. Also, trees are surprisingly heavy. So, here we are with a tree on the house while we received quotes from arborists. We hired a tree service & they started by securing the trunk and cutting the few top branches. T ..read more
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The cherry tree & burst pipe
Building Modern – A Modern DIY Renovation Blog
by Anna
4y ago
Upon returning from Belize, we discovered a cherry tree laying across our back porch roof. All things considered, it could have been worse – but having a tree fall on your house is still not fun. Our neighbor said he herd what sounded like a “9 foot big-foot running through the woods” the day we returned from our trip – we initially didn’t see the tree because we arrived at night, hit the hay as soon as we returned, and it was located on the back of the house where we couldn’t easily see it. In the morning I sat down at the computer and saw limbs propped against the screened porch and thought ..read more
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