Window Restoration: The Study Pt. 3
Windows The Window Goes Home Sash weights, pulleys, tracks, stops... and considerably les…
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Window Restoration: The Study Pt. 2
GBS
Windows Ninety-Nine Years in the Corners Restoring the window opening, sill and storm-window f…
Why Did the Original Porch Windows Open Inward?
GBS
Why is My House Like This? They Weren't Hung Backwards For years, I thought there were two thin…
Finally, Bare Wood
GBS
One Photograph, One Story It Was a Commitment! Hours of scraping and sanding reveal the bare wood …
Why Does House 173 Have an Enclosed Front Porch?
GBS
Why is My House Like This? Thirteen Windows and One Very Old Question Why did 1920s homes have encl…
Window Restoration: The Study Pt. 1
GBS
Windows 99 Years in the Same Window Restoring One of House 173's Original Double-Hung Windows I…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 7
GBS
Back Porch Giving the Old Window Trim Another Go The old PVC trim gets cleaned, modified and put ri…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 5
George
Porches Building the East Wall Window Sill Two straight 2x4s, two major mistakes and a lot of caref…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 4
GBS
Porches The East Wall Surprise After years of worrying about what I'd find beneath the east win…
Back Porch Rehab '24 - Part 2
George
Porches Building a New Window Sill A custom sill, an eight-degree slope, a router, and one measurem…
Repairing the Window Screens
GBS
Back Porch A Whole New Skill! Sometimes maintaining an old house means fixing the quiet little thin…
Back Porch Exterior Cleanup
GBS
Pressure Wash One Thing Leads To Another I'm going to try and keep this short. The facts are s…
The Shed Remodel Megapost | Complete Backyard Shed Transformation
GBS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FROM A MISGUIDED TREE PLANTING TO A SIMPLE STICK-BUILT SHED AND A BEAUTIFUL …
The Kitchen Megapost
GBS
The Whole Story in One Place ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REMODEL NEARLY 20 YEARS OVERDUE MEGAPOST 4 YEARS …
The Shed Rehab: Finally Making Progress
GBS
It Already Looks Better! Summer's always interesting for getting projects done. For one thing,…
Replacing the Old Kitchen Windows at House 173
GBS
Windows Dirty Little Secrets at 173 Every old house has a few embarrassing corners. These drafty lo…
Starting on the Dining Room Radiator Cover
GBS
Time to Address the Dining Room's Last Ugly Spot As you'll see below, a cover for the radi…
Window Work - What was I Thinking?
GBS
I've done windows here at 173 quite a few times now. I put new windows in the back porch, new …
How the Exterior of House 173 Changed: A 2016 Before-and-After
GBS
Exterior One Brief Moment The gable was finished. The oriel had changed. Shutters appeared…
Legacy Project: Remodeling the Back Porch at House 173
GBS
A Complete Overhaul One of the first major renovations that transformed House 173 from an old hous…