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		<title>Surprises In The Walls After Removing Wallpaper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote about removing wallpaper in my small second bathroom I alluded to the fact that you be in for some surprises under your wallpaper as your tear it down. I mentioned this because I actually found a few different things in the tiny room that were surprising, interesting and just plain weird. Here they are: Surprise #1: Behind the large plate mirror in the bathroom there was actually once a medicine cabinet&#8230; with the gaping hole to prove it. On the wall there was the message &#8220;Hello George and Barbara 6/97&#8243;. We didn&#8217;t know of a George and Barbara living in the home at this time, so either George and Barbara did the work or they were past owners of the home at some point that we didn&#8217;t know about. This hole technically wasn&#8217;t being hidden by wallpaper, but since I had to remove the wallpaper that was under the large mirror it meant that I had to take the mirror down. The 4&#8242; x 3&#8242; mirror weighed about 20 pounds and was being held on the wall by three old mirror brackets that were screwed in to the drywall. There were no anchors and they were not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How One Home Improvement Project Leads to Another</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About two weeks ago my wife and I were sitting in our dining room when I noticed that one of our 45 year old original baseboards was cracked. I should have kept quiet, but I mumbled to myself, &#8220;Hmm, I guess I should replace that baseboard&#8230;&#8221; The first pyramid was built when the Pharaoh&#8217;s wife asked for a stone bench to be moved &#8216;a little to the left.&#8217; The rest is history&#8230; My wife quickly replied, &#8220;If you&#8217;re going to replace that one board, couldn&#8217;t we pick something a little more modern?&#8221; &#8220;I guess we could, but if I rip out these old thick baseboard some of the unfinished wood beneath might show.&#8221; &#8220;Can you put shoe molding in here?&#8221; my wife asks. &#8220;Sure,&#8221; I answered. &#8220;I can put in shoe molding and just end it right at the two doorways.&#8221; &#8220;But aren&#8217;t we thinking about putting trim around the doorways?&#8221; I sighed, seeing where this was going, &#8220;Yes&#8230; we&#8217;ve been talking about doing that for years, though.&#8221; &#8220;So, why not do them at the same time you replace the baseboards?&#8221; I could have but I marveled at how we had gone from the simple job of replacing a baseboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Not To Install A Set of Stairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Coffee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is about my recent adventure in putting together a set of outside stairs on the side of my house. This is not a how-to article, but rather, an article about what not to do. This is an embarrassing do-it-yourself mistake. We had a new sliding glass door put into our house a few weeks ago, but we haven&#8217;t been able to use it because the door is three feet off the ground and exits out over a flowerbed. Instead of continually walking outside and plunging into the petunias I decided to save some money and build a set of stairs myself. Things don&#8217;t always work out as you plan them. Now, I have to say this: I&#8217;ve used stairs all my life. I know how stairs work. You walk up, you walk down. I figured they can&#8217;t be all that hard to build. The first thing I do, of course, is go to Home Depot to see if can just buy a set of stairs and nail it to the side of my house and claim the structure as my own. In any other country this would be a ridiculous idea, but this is America and here in America [...]]]></description>
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