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What Mighta Been - Tremont House
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One of the Houses Viewed Before Buying 173 Ever wonder what if? What if I took that other job, …
Pastoral Vignette - Stockbridge, MA 2019
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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 Yeah, I didn't coin that phrase, there's a…
The Hallway Makeover Megapost
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It Took a Couple Years But It Got Done This is the megapost story comprised of about a dozen posts …
For Want of a Nail...the Kingdom was Lost
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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 I'd say most of the proje…
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 (2011)
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What's a Megapost and why this one? Over the years I have frequently, aw heck, almost always po…
New Seating for the Workshop
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The Kobalt Shop Stool from Lowes for $69 Many years ago I had an old banker's stool for the wor…
Abstract Art from Everyday Moments
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Pics of Stuff that Coincidentally Make for a Bit of Abstract Art I'm certainly not a great phot…
Yardsticks and Door Frames
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An Oddity Here There's any number of oddities here at 173, and it's my guess that the same …
Fixing the Old Birdhouse
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Still Just Puttering Around the House While the news seems to indicate that we may be coming out of…
There are Simply No Words for Some Things
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The New York Times Corona Virus Front Page Memorial Day weekend is always a poignant time for me. …
173 in Bloom - Spring 2020!
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April Showers Brought May Flowers! I'm a bit of a pluviophile, always have been. I know - it&…
Mending the Front Stoop - It's the little things!
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One Board in 20 Years - Not Bad! Back in about 1999 we built a bit of a stoop for the front porch. …
The Sky is an Infinite Movie to Me - kd lang
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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
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Inexpensive Stanley Plane Sharpened Every now and again I remind everyone that the primary purpos…
Made at 173: Japanese Toolbox
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A New Toolbox from Scrapwood For me, the direct impact of the COVID-19 pandemic really started on M…
COVID-19: The Great Pause
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Unprecedented, Unimaginable, Unwelcome I'm sorry to the artist who painted the picture above, …
Made at 173: Hand-Plane Rack
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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
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If the kitchen is the heart of a home, then the living room is its soul, at least at my childhood …
Gerstner & Sons Tool Chest Refurb
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Refurbishing the Gerstner and Sons Style 41c It's finally done! The refurb of my Gerstner …
Just an Interim Update
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Some Small Jobs It's been a few weeks since I posted anything, so I thought I'd take a coup…
The Accent Table Megapost!
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Welcome to the Accent Table Megapost combining both posts about the design and build of the …