Paint, Plaster, and Sweat

Adventures in vintage rehab

Labor Day Weekend: Aptly Named

| September 8, 2009

We worked all day Saturday, all day Sunday, and about half of Monday before knocking off to meet some out of town friends.
My dad tore out the bathroom ceiling on Saturday:

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It made quite a mess.

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It made several contractor’s garbage bags full of mess. Hopefully we can put up new drywall for [...]

What’s Newel?

| August 11, 2009

Photos of the front stairwell of a vintage Chicago 2-flat, and preliminary discussion of restoring said stairwell.