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le turquoise blue dishes are a gift from the room s frequent occupant my twin sister of another mother mothers who are distantly related but don t know it holly we still need to paint the door but it will do for now the ceiling is a simple white and we replaced the light with the fixture we swapped for an led light at the entrance to the dining room i sewed a curtain for the closet i d like to add a door but the futon makes that challenging finally today i added the purrfect touch posted in house projects 7 comments updating plank ceilings july 20 2013 we had one bedroom in our house we had never painted yep sadly it was still as it was on the day we closed in december 2000 the room directly above the living room overlooks the backyard and features the exposed brick chimney for the woodstove leaving the chimney exposed adds a rustic touch but more importantly when the woodstove is burning the chimney throws a little heat adding some extra warmth to our cold new england house there was a problem though the chimney had a leak and the leak damaged and continued to damage the drywall ceiling we d tried several different ways to address the leak new flashing our roofer added more asphalt sealer around the chimney roof joint a mason came and replaced the first course of bricks all to no avail finally in spring 2011 we had supaflu come and retrofit a new chimney liner and that stopped the leak at last we could paint someday fast forward to the present and taa daa we are finally painting first we had to come to some agreement about what to do about the plank ceilings the bedrooms in our 1 1 2 story cape are all tucked under the eaves of the house with cozy sloped ceilings the two bedrooms in the main part of the house had knotty pine tongue and groove planking on the slopped portion of the ceilings which had been left unfinished since installation over the years it had darkened considerably and on one wall we had some water stains from the chimney leak i felt like it made the rooms dark and cramped but dan liked the natural wood we hemmed and hawed and finally dan agreed to try whitewashing the planking with white stain for the paint we picked out a lighter shade of yellowy green called independent gold wow what a difference a simple coat of white oil based stain lifted the ceilings and made the room appear significantly larger and brighter first we treated the water stains with oxyclean which lightened the stains considerably then sanded using our random orbital sander attached to the shop vacuum to remove dust and dirt and open the pores of the wood finally we gave the planks a thorough vacuuming to remove any residual dust then fans in the window for ventilation we stained the old wood just drank up the stain we did not even have to wipe it off the stain needed a couple of days to thoroughly dry then we finished with 1 coat of polyurethane in a satin finish it should have a second coat but i moved on to other tasks namely removing the hideous wall paper and border ugh i understand at some levels the desire to wallpaper rooms but after removing it from walls over a number of years i can t foresee a day when i will decide to add wallpaper but i digress once the wallpaper was off we got to the fun part painting more on that in part deux in the meantime i ll leave you a sneak peak of the new color posted in house projects 2 comments retrofitting lighting adding leds july 19 2013 we have had some seriously ugly and dated lighting in our dining room it was so ugly that two of the lamps tried to run away to hide one got as far as the laundry room but the other only made it a few feet away from the mother fixture operated by a different switch on another circuit why i don t know with a new paint job and reconfiguring this room a little more on that later the time had come to replace the lighting which is harder than it should be lighting seems to fall into 2 categories inexpensive and unattractive or beautiful and wildly expensive naturally i have an eye for the wildly expensive we thought we d replace the runaway light with a recessed can light to minimize the appearance either that or make it go away all together wandering the aisles of home depot we came across a knowledgeable employee who introduced us to what we eventually selected a retrofit led can light this light is an engineering marvel it is a shallow fixture designed for supremely easy installation into a standard 4 inch junction box no cutting a bigger hole and all the rigmarole that comes with retrofitting a can light the light is generated by a computer chip via the four tiny yellow diodes seen on the open lamp in the photo on the right the computer chip is beneath protected by the lamp housing the plastic light diffusing lens snaps back into place following installation it is amazingly bright of course in our situation it wasn t quite that easy because it never is the junction boxes in our dining room were 3 inch boxes sigh this required swapping them out for modern 4 inch boxes not difficult just another step in what was supposed to be an easy task ah well that s how it usually goes while dan replaced the box i painted the lights to match the new ceiling color soon enough the runaway was replaced the other lamp by the doors to the dining room kitchen and the laundry room is also in but we still need to do a little ceiling repair to smooth out the ceiling where the old light fixture was that fixture was not my favorite style but ok just a little big for the space and several times suffered close calls with destruction when we were moving furniture lumber etc so that light moved upstairs to a bedroom which needed an update finally we replaced the main light fixture this was the difficult one we looked and looked but could not find something we liked for less than 350 way over budget finally dan had a brilliant idea we selected a basic boob light and around it we ll stencil a subtle mariner s compass the boob light will become the center of the compass and will look far less boobish we both love the idea so for now the boob light is installed sans stencil i hope we ll get to it soon overall i m really pleased the led lights use far far less energy than conventional incandescent bulbs the can lights really are not very noticeable in the ceiling yet we have light when we need it the light quality is not the same even with warm led bulbs it is a little too reminiscent of the dreadful compact fluorescent bulbs of a few years ago that made us all look ill but for lights that are primarily used for a purpose rather than general lighting they work i would highly recommend the led fixture for anyone looking to replace traditional lighting with can lights these are terrific posted in life projects 3 comments a waiting game july 18 2013 holy heck it s hot first a cool damps spring then an overnight switch into hot humid have marked our summer here at henbogle the very wet june has led to a bumper crop if mosquitoes and biting flies here and those combined with the heat and humidity during the day are making gardening exceptionally unpleasant the garden grows though a lot of things got off to a very slow start still the shallots look good the potatoes are blossoming there are green tomatoes on the vine and the spring broccoli and cauliflower was good the broccoli though even my beloved piracicaba has been slow to give me side shoots the snap peas came and went in a flash and i ve had some destructive nibbling of my lettuce crop so garden eating hasn t been super to date it is a good thing i ve got fabulous nearby farms and farm markets late blight has been confirmed in western massachusetts sigh meaning it is more than likely we ll have it here sooner than later i ll hope i can get some new potatoes and fried green tomatoes if nothing else of course the weeds are flourishing with the early plentiful rain and hit weather absent weeder sigh dan man and i watered and weeded a bit last night until the biting flies drove me inside the watering brought on a nice thundershower so the other gardens we did not water got some needed rain and we got a lovely light show no such luck that the storm would usher in cooler air we have more of the same until sunday at least inside we have air conditioning on the first floor so we ve been keeping busy with painting and house projects i ve got some dear old friends coming to visit next week so henbogle is being buffed and waxed to a glow more on that next posted in gardening life weather 3 comments painted polyed and waiting july 5 2013 we painted walls are sherwin williams sassy green ceiling jersey cream and we finished the floor with bona polyurethane in a satin finish we took the radiator covers off and while they were off decided to paint them in a happy accident the green wall color is a perfect match to the color of the grape leaves on the arbor outside the big window when the sun is shining through them now we wait for the floor to cure saturday evening we can move furniture back into the room i can hardly wait in the meantime we are sanding and painting the doors to the bathroom basement and front entry it looks pretty good considering this is the first time we ve ever done a floor posted in projects 6 comments project creep june 28 2013 it all started with deciding to paint the living room and the remaining unpainted upstairs bedroom we also wanted to remove some built in shelving so of course we would need quite a bit of drywall repair including a pretty challenging repair by the chimney dan and i are not skilled at drywall work we even put a beadboard ceiling in our laundry room to avoid putting up a drywall ceiling we decided to seek professional help and asked around and found a great contractor jamie who amazingly could fit us in right away we ve always disliked the textured ceiling in the living room and it needed a lot of re taping and repairing so we opted to have jamie put up a new drywall ceiling and repair the many other little problem areas like our half finished repair from a leak in our upstairs bath jamie s work was amazing he could put joint compound up so smoothly it barely needed sanding once we dragged out all of the furniture from the living room dan commented that the floor looks awful we should sand and refinish it while the room is empty suddenly the scope of the project expanded dramatically dan was right much easier to do it now while the house is a wreck rather than make it a wreck next year and have to do all that dust containment again we rented a floor sander and in one long long day sanded the entire floor the rental place didn t have an orbital sander so we opted for a pad sander as the drum sanders were too scary we started with a 36 grit paper but soon switched to 20 grit or what felt like macadam it worked to sand off the remaining finish in the low traffic areas we then went to 36 then 60 80 and finished with 100 grit if you can rent an orbital sander that it the way to go but we made the pad sander work vacuuming frequently and changing the paper often it looks amazing it still has plenty of patina from years of living which is ok with us there are some dents and scratches and dark spots from who knows what but we love it if only we could leave it as us it even feels good underfoot alas we need to protect it from daily living so we will be re finishing with a water based low sheen polyurethane floor finish unfortunately we seem to have entered monsoon season here in maine and after a spectacular week last week we have had humid gray days since monday with rain humidity and overcast skies predicted through independence day yuk not great weather for polyurethane for now we ve covered the floor in plastic and have moved on to painting the ceiling and walls we ll even i hope add polyurethane to the never finished section of the wainscoting maybe by the time we finish that the sun will return i can hope posted in house projects 2 comments a quick peek at the garden june 26 2013 i snapped some photos early in the day monday and tuesday the garden is looking good except for a couple of weedy patches that need major remediation the shallots are looking good despite the late planting and their being nearly over grown by weeds the first 2 years i grew them i planted them in the fall for overwintering 2010 and 2011 after being away all summer the fall was crazy and i did not get them planted so dan helped me get the shallots in on may 6 in hopes of at the very least having a fall seed crop they don t look quite as lush as they did in june 2011 but i m happy especially as they have regrouped nicely after a thorough dan man weeding followed by a good watering treatment of fish emulsion and mulching with grass clippings the potatoes planted last monday are up and after a rain shower are even bigger than pictured more rain showers are predicted today after which i ll fill them in with some more soil to encourage more taters my cukes zucchini and futsu black winter squash are up i was fortunate to discover some johnny s diva cukes at a local nursery and purchased some when my socrates cukes in the back of the first tomato cage cuke trellis were slow to sprout since then two of the three socrates cukes have sprouted but i ll leave them just in case i have room for an additional cuke trellis for a later planting if the striped cucumber beetles are bad i also discovered some flying saucers summer squash at the same nursery that had the diva cukes and purchased them as i had forgotten to buy seed i love their nutty flavor and funky shape i ve got the squashes all covered with floating row cover to deter the striped cucumber beetles and squash bugs i ll pull the cover when the plants begin to blossom i d like to make some kind of cover for the trellised cukes but haven t managed that yet and given the extensive home improvement project list it probably won t happen this year ah well today it is very humid and sticky as it was yesterday ugh perfect weather for sanding our living room floor not but oh well i m working on the edges today but the majority of the sanding is done and looks great when and if we have a break from the humidity we ll put on some polyurethane and until then we take our shoes off at the door posted in gardening life 1 comment older entries important garden dates vernal equinox 3 20 2013 7 02 am edt summer solstice 6 21 2013 1 04 am edt autumnal equinox 9 22 2013 4 44 pm edt winter solstice 12 21 2013 12 11 pm edt my spring frost date may 10 my fall frost date october 3 i know i read that somewhere search send me an e mail henbogle gmail com gardening resource pages about us welcome to henbogle 2008 garden timeline 2008 vegetable garden list garden goals for 2009 resources for maine gardeners and eaters fishy the lion maned retriever pvc hoophouse construction updated 3 11 12 2009 vegetable garden list the garden plotted 2010 vegetable garden list square foot garden 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