Tool Handle Bird Feeder
Made at 173 Proof that even failed woodworking projects often turn into better ones. This is yet an…
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Fixing an Old Bird Feeder: Twenty Years of Birds, Squirrels, and Memories
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Or Should I Say Squirrel Feeder? Some things become part of a home's story simply because they …
Just in Case the Yankees Need Someone
GBS
Waxing Poetic About My Lifetime Baseball Glove Some equipment wears out. Some becomes part of who y…
The Halloween That Wasn't: Remembering Halloween 2020
GBS
2020 Sucks Halloween 2020 may have been quiet, but it couldn't erase a lifetime of monster movi…
A Walk Around the Neighborhood at House 173
George
A Brief Tour The story of House 173 begins with the neighborhood that made it feel like home. Walki…
Carpeting the Stairway: A Small Project for an Old Friend
George
The Things We Do for Our Dogs! Sometimes the best home improvements aren't for the house at all…
Das Beisler Haus: Erweiterung! Pt 2
GBS
The First Floor It's been entirety too long, 9 months to be exact, since we last met to talk ab…
Evolution of the Front Stoop
George
Front Porch A House 173 Megapost The front stoop was never really finished, it simply evolved, one…
The Untold Story of Remodeling with a Beagle
GBS
Bruegger and the Third Floor Sometimes the projects we remember most aren't about the work, the…
Sometimes We Need a Distraction
GBS
Fixing a Trash-Picked Watering Can When I sat to write this post I hesitated because the subject is…
The Birdhouses at 173
GBS
Homes for Everyone! From homemade plywood houses to real nests in the lilacs, the birds have always…
What Mighta Been - McDonald House
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Another House Viewed Before Buying 173 A few days ago I posted about the Tremont House , which was …
What Mighta Been - Tremont House
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One of the Houses Viewed Before Buying 173 Looking back at one of the houses we toured during th…
Reprint: So Long Birch Tree - I Hardly Knew Ye
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Revisiting the Post from August 11, 2013 It seems the old birch trees has come up several times la…
Made at 173: Small Stuff Storage
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There is No Scrap Wood, Just Pieces Not Yet Used An old lazy Susan spice rack, a few scraps of wood…
The Hallway Makeover Megapost
GBS
It Took a Couple Years But It Got Done The full story of how the hallway at House 173 slowly transf…
For Want of a Nail...the Kingdom was Lost
GBS
Still Embroiled in Corona Virus - Just Little Details Getting Done But, the devil is in the details…
The Front Porch Interior Megapost
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The Slow, Almost Unintentional, Evolution of the Front Porch Interior New windows, old furniture, g…
The Back Porch Megapost
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The Project that Launched House 173! When House 173 launched as 173 Our Old House on December 31, …
Megapost: Shingling the Back Porch at House 173 (2011)
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What's a Megapost and why this one? Replacing tired vinyl siding with cedar shingles gave the b…
The Kobalt Shop Stool from Lowes for $69
GBS
New Seating for the Workshop After years of making do with an estate-sale vanity stool, the House 1…
Abstract Art from Everyday Moments
GBS
Pics of Stuff that Coincidentally Make for a Bit of Abstract Art I'm certainly not a great phot…
Yardsticks Above the Door Frames: One of House 173's Best Oddities
GBS
Ramblings An Oddity at House 173 Sometimes the smallest discoveries reveal the practical wisdom lef…
Fixing the Old Birdhouse
GBS
Still Just Puttering Around the House While the news seems to indicate that we may be coming out of…
The New York Times Corona Virus Front Page
GBS
There are Simply No Words for Some Things Memorial Day weekend is always a poignant time for me. I…
173 in Bloom - Spring 2020!
GBS
April Showers Brought May Flowers! I'm a bit of a pluviophile, always have been. I know - it&#…
The Sky is an Infinite Movie to Me - kd lang
GBS
Random Pictures by GB Shaw I was looking through some of my pictures and realized I had a number of…
Plane Sharpening and Just Plain Rambling
GBS
Sharpening the Stanley SB4 Plane Iron The Stanley SB4 doesn't get much love from serious woodwo…
Made at 173: A Japanese Toolbox Built by Hand
GBS
A New Toolbox from Scrapwood A simple woodworking project inspired by traditional Japanese toolbox …
COVID-19: The Great Pause
GBS
Unprecedented, Unimaginable, Unwelcome I'm sorry to the artist who painted the picture above, …
Made at 173: Hand-Plane Rack
GBS
Scrap Wood and Leftover Gerstner Green Felt Plane Rack This is one of those times when we're li…
812: The Home - The Living Room
GBS
If the kitchen is the heart of a home, then the living room is its soul, at least at my childhood h…
Gerstner & Sons Tool Chest Refurbishment at House 173
GBS
Refurbishing the Gerstner and Sons Style 41c A vintage Gerstner & Sons tool chest gets cleane…
Just an Interim Update
GBS
Some Small Jobs It's been a few weeks since I posted anything, so I thought I'd take a coup…
Made at 173: Custom Accent Table for an Upstairs Hallway
GBS
Another Project Made at 173 A custom-built accent table designed specifically for the challenging e…