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O tannen baum!!
GB Shaw
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year Christmas is my favorite time of year! I always feel like a li…
Shabby Chic Phone Stand - Made at 173
GB Shaw
This post linked to Power Tool Link Party at First Home Dreams and A Home in College Hil…
The Houses of My Life!
GB Shaw
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc 173 is a simple house. As a matter-of-fact, if you ask 10 five-year-olds…
The Front Porch - New Windows and Door
GB Shaw
A Bittersweet Change to 173 Before we bought 173, the front porch looked like this:
Fall Plantings!
GB Shaw
A Couple Trees for the Devil's Strip There's still a few projects that need to get done bef…
Design Ideas - Just Killing Time
GB Shaw
Hotel living for another week. I don't mind it - love my job, but there's always project a…
Legacy Project: Umbrella Stand
GB Shaw
A 173 Scrap Wood Project So 173 made it through Hurricane Irene pretty much unscathed.…
Hanging a Valance
GB Shaw
I Always Break Into the Liberty Valance Song A good friend of mine made this super valance for the …
Kitchen Help Wanted!
GB Shaw
For 14 long years we've suffered with one of the most outdated kitchens left in America. No, r…
Legacy Project: Garden Bench (From Leftovers!)
GB Shaw
I'm in a hotel for the week. Nope! Not vacation. I have one of those jobs that takes me out …
Even More Door Stuff AND I Made the Reading List!
GB Shaw
It's incredible to me how many little things go in to simply changing the color of the back doo…
Punch List - Back Door Hardware
GB Shaw
Snow day! No, it didn't snow in August (although it wouldn't surprise all the "Global…
The Back Door - The (next to) Last!
GB Shaw
It really seems insane that the transformation of a back door would require this many posts. I tho…
The Back Door - Part Two
GB Shaw
Finally the humidity has let up and, luckily, I had the day off today! So I took the back door out…
Provenance Pics!
GB Shaw
Heat + humidity + me = not a whole heckuvalotta work getting done. In the humidity I worry about t…
A Sneak Peek!
GB Shaw
I'm not going to divulge all right now, although looking at the pictures it's probably goin…
Too Hot to Work Outside - Painting a Stool for the Bathroom
GB Shaw
Holy Heat Batman Across the country temperatures have been outrageous this past week. I don't …
The Back Door
GB Shaw
Just when you thought you'd heard the last of the back porch - mwahhhahahaa! Seems like I'…
OK, I'm Obsessed - One Final Look
GB Shaw
I just saw this first picture today and thought it was a good "Before and After" opportun…
A Day of Odds-N-Ends
GB Shaw
Yesterday was one of those days when I just couldn't get into any one big project. So I went a…
Getting Rid Of An Old Pile Of Concrete
GB Shaw
A summer or two ago I rented a jackhammer and broke up the old sidewalk that ran across the back y…
Made at 173: The Untimely-But-Fun $5 Potting Bench (Part 2)
GB Shaw
I got home from work today and ran right outside to get the potting bench finished. In case you…
$5 Potting Bench
GB Shaw
I Really Didn't Need To Do This Right Now In upstate New York where we live, winter lasts what…
Shingling the Back Porch Part 2
GB Shaw
After shingling the back wall of the back porch, I finally got around to doing the side wall. In t…
Shingling the Back Porch
GB Shaw
So I Thought - Why Not? We have old, cheap, poorly applied vinyl siding on the house. I hate it. …
Legacy Project: The Back Porch Remodel
GB Shaw
A Complete Overhaul In our first real post , the story was told of a Legacy Project that took plac…
Legacy Project: Third Floor Renovation 1998
GB Shaw
A Look Back at a Pre-Blog Project Okay, so in the beginning I don't think there were blogs …