Can it be any thinner???
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Comments (4)Ugh! When we had our house painted the idiot poured the paint thinner into the basement window well! I was SO PISSED! Before I noticed that (after he left - I only noticed because the ground was all green and burgundy), I had asked him how to properly dispose of paint thinner (because I was collecting my own in containers, not wanting to dump a flammable liquid in the trash). His response was "Dig a hole and bury it in the ground - that's what I do." I freaked out and said "But it'll kill the trees!" And he said "I don't do it near the trees." Then I looked around and thought there was no place I could safely dump it in my yard - all garden and trees. So, I now use up whatever I can and if only a wee bit is left I wipe it with newpaper and papertowels and let them dry out before putting them in the trash. As for the paint chips - ugh! They were ALL OVER around the house. It was so annoying because it was fall and all mixed into the leaves. Try composting leaves with paint chips - it is such a pain in the butt; I tried picking them out, but after a while I gave up and just let the garbage men take them. What a waste! The simple rule is NEVER TRUST ANY CONTRACTOR!!! EVER!!! The contractor who built our addition didn't follow the plans and put a gable roof on instead of a hip, therefore we had over 70 square feet of useless space under the old rafters where the closet was supposed to be. I fixed one side of the house that I could actually move by kicking it (I only weight 125 pounds). We finally fired him after he destroyed the cedar shakes and board-and-batt siding. Then we paid a high-end builder to fix the rafter problem - and what did he do? He removed ALL the rafters that were holding up the entire front of the original house (like an A-Frame). I forced the framer to put in a header - with MY wood, but it was done wrong. Now I am trying to fix all this disaster, but it is nearly impossible because there are no structural members left in that area, so I have to lift the old ceiling with new collar ties carried across onto the addition wall (which I must reinforce because it was not built to carry such a load), and I had to remove the old woodwork on the "wall" next to it so I can turn it into a real load-bearing wall so I have something to tie into. Oh yeah, I didn't find out until after that all the gorgeous houses of this high-end builder's were TEAR DOWNS made to look old. The framer didn't know crap about old houses that rely on pure, unadulterated physics to stand up. Now I have to engineer a house-within-a-house. When they say to expect the unexpected with old houses, they mean it - very few "real" walls, beams that do not line up with the wall beneath. And the worst part is when we said "Real wood siding" they all thought we were nuts - to use some fake manufactured crap. Try explaining that rough-sawn lumber comes from an actual tree and that cedar cannot be put over Tyvek, you must use felt paper. Properly maintained wood can last hundreds of years; vinyl is toxic and fiber-cement flakes apart after a few years. And the manufactued "board-and-batt" panels are the same crap that my tool shed is made of - not meant for a habitable house! Anyway, sorry for the rant. I'm just pissed because I want to be gardening (and the house isn't getting finished because of the garden), but I have to waste my time re-building my stupid house. Anyways, I'm sure pouring paint thinner into the ground is illegal, but apparently that does not matter to many painters. They probably have to pay to dump it....See MoreLimeLight Hydrangeas - Can they be kept thinner/shorter?
Comments (2)It is do-able. If you cut them down to the ground in the Fall (some people prefer not to see the sticks all winter long) or Spring, this will keep them slightly on the smaller side. If you find they are still reaching over the 6 ft. mark (wouldn't be for years and years though) you could always prune a foot off in the Summer. You'd be sacrificing blooms of course, but only from the very top--not that big of a deal really. So, is it ideal? Not ideal, but if you're willing to put in a bit more time to trim them up there's no reason why you couldn't shorten them up. Having the room for them width wise (which you have) is more important IMO because Summer pruning to control size would mean losing lots of those beautiful blooms....See MoreReally struggling to find 'thinner' (~28') nightstands.
Comments (18)Alright- I am close, very close :) So I have one final decision to make. Let's say I order the entire collection (2 nightstands, dresser, and gentleman's chest. no mirror, I think I can find something much more interesting.) The collection comes in 2 colors- molasses and tobacco. The molasses is almost black and the tobacco is more brown. They do go together nicely. Our bed is in molasses (black.) I am toying w/ the idea of getting the other pieces in tobacco (brown.) So the look would be similar to my first pic, with the brown table and black bed. I just think it would be "interesting" to mix it up... and I'm not entirely sure I want all black furniture. Any thoughts? I could also do molasses night stands (to match the bed) and tobacco dresser and chest. What are your thoughts? So vote! #1- keep it all molasses (black) #2- mix it up (how?) :)...See MoreWilsonart laminate: How to get the appearance of a thinner surface?
Comments (16)Wow! I'm blushing at all the compliments! So, of the links that zmith posted, I'd say mine is more like the mystique sharp curve, but it is definitely the eased edge as posted in iowacommute's link. I don't know if the terminology is different in Canada than the US, but it is definitely more square than round, and I am fairly sure the guy that made them had the laminate sheets and put it on the substrate himself. I gave my contractor the big 5x7 sample I had and he took it to his countertop guy. It might be called a D-wrap, but I think the D-wrap was more round, whereas mine is more square,but rounded off. It is 3.5cm, measured in cms, not converted from inches. I actually picked the pattern out at Lowes Canada and asked them about the various edge samples they had in the kitchen department and I'm pretty sure that's where I got the "eased edge" name from....See More- 9 years ago
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