Haven’t seen any pictures lately so I’ll put up a couple. I need some practice re-sizing for dial up users. Infranview doesn’t work on my Mac so I’m trying some exports. Hope it works, I targeted 80KBs. This job included a new kitchen, replaced all the interior trim, added crown, chair rails and a deck with pergola. The green cabinets I made. The cherry are manufactured. Granite counters. The deck and pergola are framed with SYP PT, the decking is Alaskan yellow cedar, which I really like. Rails and balusters are red cedar and the columns are fiberglass. I hear the pergola is now painted. The bay alcove presented some design complications. By putting in a corner, single sink, it allowed more prep area both near the stove and at the serving/breakfast bar. I made a jig for the bandsaw to cut the railing fit at the columns. The distressed paint on the cabinets was some of my first glazed type finish attempts, it looks better in person, I hope.
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I like that pergola. File size was good, but for those folks who don't like the shift-click attachments I've shrunk your pic down so that it fits better in the message window.
Where'd my attachment go?! Try it again.jt8
Thanks for the re-size, John. I thought I had it, until it was posted. My latest Panther update has really screwed up my photography, won't even mount my camera anymore.
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thats a really nice looking pergola...
just wondering how you fastened the flush parts
toenails? (hand nail, or gun? gauge?)
glue?
thanks..
Edited 10/27/2004 5:57 pm ET by oak
Thanks Oak, I used a PC round head framing gun with 16d gal. One end is straight in, the other is nailed with a slight angle right next to the preceding member. Just like solid bridging, no toe nails. I used pipe clamps here and there to pull things tight. I used a few screws where needed. All the tails are fastened with three 4" gal screws from behind.
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ahh... makes sense, thanks for the reply
I got a copy of Photoshop Elements with some other purchase a while back. Oddly enough, I think the Photoshop would have cost more than whatever I'd bought (cheap camera or some such)... but anyway that is what I use to resize photos.
I don't know how to use 1% of what it can do, but from the parts I have figured out, it is pretty neat. Just messed with a couple filters and have attached the results.
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That is a fine looking pergola. I have never seen one with flush cross pattern before
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Thanks Piff. I thought the flush application would help keep the SYP from going wacky. It also adds quite a bit of lateral strength, those pergolas can be a little top heavy. The tails are applied so it was easy to make them on the bandsaw in the shop.
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hi there! I'm currently building a log home and am interested in a distressed painted kitchen! Specifically I'm thinking of a combination of black and natural cherry cabinets... but i'm having trouble finding a good technique to distress the black painted surface... - i can sand/expose the edges/corners but the problem is getting the overall surface to appear distressed or aged -- so that the black isn't too much ! Any ideas are appreciated! Thx
The pictures I posted were pretty bad. I have some scraps from that job in the sample box, this type of finish may not be exactly what you want. Mine is kind of commercial looking. I don't get that type requested very often, so I have limited experience. As you might expect, it takes a bit of experimentation to find the combination of materials and techniques that achieve the look you want. I did several large practice pieces all the way through.I started with a red primer. Top coated that with an egg shell latex. I distressed the paint so that some primer would show in areas, not much raw wood on this one. I mixed some artist colors with oil based glazing compound, venetian red. The glaze was placed here and there and some left in grooves. The glaze changes the surface appearance of the paint and you can blend it as you like. I did some "fly specking" and top coated with a water based satin poly. I just saw this article in a magazine and I thought the finish looked great. It's a black distressed one with raw wood showing. There is certainly some artistry in doing the distressing. Download the Old Saw for June 2006, vol 17 #5, it's free. There is a kitchen island and the builder discusses his finish. http://www.gnhw.org/old_saw.htmlBeat it to fit / Paint it to match
Nice looking work! That Kitchen and Pergola are well done.
That's a good paint/finish technique. Very labor intensive. I've never tried it with a latex top coat.
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Definately a labor intensive pergola.
Is the outside joist resting on your beam or is it using the blocking as a bearing surface?
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The Pergola wasn't too bad. It's just a deck with some floor joists on top. There is a built up beam on top of the columns, wrapped in some awful pine. That's the best I could find that day, everything is painted now. All the joists are notched over the beam except the end ones which are spiked through. All the "rafter" tails are fake, they are screwed on from behind. I was worried that the PT joists would go pretzle on me. That's why I used the solid blocking to make the grid. Same with the profiles on the tails, I didn't want them to be too wide and twist. The only difficult part was cutting the railings to fit the columns. I made a jig for my bandsaw and they came out very nice, sort of locked everything in place. I used Alaskan yellow cedar for the deck boards, that's some nice stuff. I wish we would see more of it here in the East. .Beat it to fit / Paint it to match
On some early attempts I used SW Pro-Mar. This proved to be too good a paint and I couldn't feather it for the distressing. I changed to the Classic latex. That job was a few years ago and these finishes were kind of new, not much info. The local manager at SW comped me some practice materials. Some of the commercial shops use colored lacquer. It took about five tries to get the green color the customer wanted. This would have been expensive with lacquer. I had to watch Martha Stewart on TV, she has a cupboard on the set, in the background, that was close to what the customer was trying to do. I must have hit it well, the customer cried and they were tears of joy. Usually the tears are not happy ones. LOL. Actually, the finish wasn't that difficult, less demanding than some high end clear finishes and it was fun.Beat it to fit / Paint it to match