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Too Valuable to Paint? What /how to Bring back to Life?
Comments (10)I have no idea how valuable that is, but if you really love it, then you need to decide how much it's worth to you to pay for a professional restoration. DIY advice: don't use the product Restor A Finish. it can stain really unevenly. first thing: sponge it down with water and see how it looks before it dries. if it looks beautiful, then a simple restoring oil should do the job. make sure it dries fully before you oil. if water doesn't soak in or darken the wood, then it has some kind of clear coat and oil won't work. if oil is not an option: a couple of thin coats of reddish transparent gel stain could tone the wood and warm it up. but proceed with caution! do a test on the bottom of the table first, and practice on other old furniture, picture frames, etc. any wood that has some kind of clear coat. you need to get a feel for how the gel brushes over varnishes and practice doing the job evenly. important: don't cheap out on brushes. a good brush does make a huge difference in how evenly you can apply. one caveat: gel stain is a misnomer as it just sits on top -- so it might scratch. I'm not sure how easily though. you might want to go to a paint store (not home depot) and confer with them about what to use and what to expect. my local Benjamin Moore was insanely helpful the last time I had a wood staining project. finally: just my opinion, but I think that glass topper doesn't look right. it's too 80s. I'd get rid of it and just let it be a smaller table....See MoreHail Mary - save my plan before it’s too late
Comments (52)I was reading along, not meaning to comment until I came across this: DH feels strongly about being able to look out at the pool from the kitchen, and keep an eye on the little ones if he runs in to make lunch. I hope that you are not designing a house so as to be able to do this. I wouldn't bother. You CANNOT take your eyes off little ones in a pool to make lunch, nor to answer a phone, nor to grab a coat out of the house. Of all the crazy things. I didn't see anyone else comment on this, but this is a non-starter. If my DH ever said anything like that, it would be the last time he was allowed to watch anyone in the pool. Our kids have grown up with a pool, and I never so much as read a book while I was out there watching them. If a friend came over, we were both seated facing the pool. It is a constant head-counting situation, and anything less is dangerous. To design a house or a pool around that idea is preposterous. It really doesn't matter if you trust your kids or they can swim, because they're going to have friends over, etc. We don't even leave our dogs unattended in the backyard like that, with the pool. We designed our (elaborate) pool in order to be able to see every bit of it from the patio. I suggest you do the same....See MoreSo it’s almost spring… anyone more nervous than excited?
Comments (34)Well, I started gardening organically in 1980 on the same property I still garden on. [g] I guess I was committed to the process beyond what the results were going to be. Major problems that I've had? I did have winter moths on all my trees and shrubs for about 6 years in a row without doing anything to address them. The only organic solution would have been to spray the whole tree, that was already 25 ft tall, every spring, with horticultural oil for an uncertain result, so I skipped that. It did leave moderate damage to the tree. Lots of dead branches up in the canopy but it started out being a very dense canopy so it still looks very good, now that there are no more winter moths. They just stopped one spring. I have no idea why. I did replace a number of shrubs and two small Amelanchier trees. I had a bout of witch grass that invaded my vegetable garden and I did the wrong thing and used a rototiller on it and what a mistake that was, it just multiplied the root system and it was worse. I abandoned my vegetable garden for 2 years before I thought of an organic sollution - I had a left over 25ft piece of plastic from an outdoor skating rink and I covered the whole area for a year and basically solarized it and that was the end of the witch grass. I had a very annoying influx of earwigs that were attacking plants in my vegetable garden and it took me awhile to figure out what was doing it. I looked and looked during the day and saw no pest that was causing the damage, but when I went out at night with a flashlight, I found the earwigs all over the plants. Simple solution, a plastic cup with soapy water in it and I'd just knock them into it. I did that for a couple of weeks and never had that bad a problem with them again. I grow a lot of brassicas in the vegetable garden and I used to get a lot of those caterpillars that make a mess of the leaves. I still get some in the spring, but my plan was to just inspect the undersides of the leaves and remove them, but I got busy in the spring and forgot to do them and I noticed that I had wasps patroling the vegetable beds and I barely had any damage from the caterpillars. So, to me that is the ecology taking care of itself. You do have to be observant to notice what is happening in the garden. So, those are just a few examples of issues that come up and what it has required from me in the way of acceptance and patience. I know in the beginning, when I had less patience, I did make up my own homemade insect spray - garlic, a drop of oil, a drop of dishwashing liquid and some red pepper flakes, blended then strained into a spray bottle. That seemed to be pretty general purpose and I had no issue with using that and still don't. It has been a couple of decades since I resorted to that. What I was doing was taking each issue that came up, researching possible sollutions, talking to other organic gardeners and then choosing the most natural solution, sometimes doing nothing. Thinking about it, I think I do nothing more often then I do any thing else. [g] BTW, when you talk about gardening making you happy, growing organically and supporting the ecology in my little corner, has always made me feel really connected to nature and adds a lot of happiness to my gardening....See MorePea Gravel - it’s driving me crazy!
Comments (15)I thought I'd detail the differences between pea gravel and crushed stone. It won't help you find what you want, but maybe help understanding why you can't find your color and limit the stress. Pea gravel: This is a natural collection of rocks dug up from embankments near water or recent water. Each rock is rounded from the millenias of water erosion. The color will be based on the predominant rock around that water, and rock forms in sedimentary layers, so you will have a plethora of colors within that dig. Overall the base of colors may be similar, but there can be greater variation as water can carry the rocks from elsewhere. The rocks are screened to sizes, shipped locally and sold. In construction terms the word gravel is used for rock that has not been mechanically altered. Crushed stone: This is natural rock from deposits that are mined from pits anywhere they exist. Think in terms of blasting off the side of a mountain. These large chunks of rock are then crushed, screened to size, and sold. It is distributed more widely as crushed stone is used for more than just decorative purposes, especially to regions that don't have natural deposits to mine. Although still dealing with sedimentary layers, the rock is more uniform in appearance as these pits are selected based on a huge deposit of the same rock. So if you are mining limestone, regionally you may get a more tan-ish color from say Indiana than you would get from the more white-ish color in Illinois. In construction terms the word stone is used for mechanically altered rock, and you can crush gravel too. I suspect that when you say you want a certain "gold" color, companies are zeroing in on the color, which they have close to in crushed stone. The Handley pea gravel color you want may have been a certain deposit they mined years ago, depleted it, then moved the mining area, and that pea gravel is of a different base color, but still coming from the Handley mine so is named as such....See MoreRelated Professionals
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