With a few basic carpentry skills and our easy-to-follow FREE woodworking plans — you can build your own beehive boxes!
Hive bodies and honey supers are probably the most popular woodworking project for new beekeepers. They’re easy to make, and there are times when we can all use a few more hive boxes than we’ve got on hand — especially in “swarm season”!
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The much anticipated visit of our infant grand-niece recently inspired us to clear out a spare bedroom in our old farmhouse and turn it into a nursery. Top priority was replacing the stained 1950’s era wallpaper with a fresh coat of paint.
Having done this several years ago in the living room and hall I knew what we’d find as we started to remove several layers of old wallpaper.
I wasn’t surprised to find:
- cracks of various sizes
- fist-size holes of crumbled plaster
- loose plaster due to broken keys
All easy to fix once you know what to do.
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The bare concrete foundation wall of our renovated mudroom made a stark contrast to the beautiful natural granite blocks that have solidly supported our farmhouse for 115 years.
I had thought about parging it just to spruce it up a bit and then my partner suggested we try resurfacing the concrete with the Beauti-Tone (Tech Stone) “Granite”© from Home Hardware.
Having seen the TV ads and after a bit of Googling to check out other people’s experience with “Granite” and other “spreadable stone” decorative finishes we decided that the TechStone product was worth a shot.
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Veranda Ceiling Do-over
(Part 2)
I have to say installing this ceiling the second time was much easier than the first – even by myself. Since all the pieces were precut and numbered – it was kind of a “paint by numbers” job -
uh…once I worked out the logistics.
The main issues I had to overcome for this two-person job were getting the boards into position and holding them there until I could get them nailed – three hands minimum required.
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