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   paulwaterloo1 | Apr 03, 2007 05:15pm | #1

   Here is the radiator cover I built, it's super nice, about 110" long and 24" wide, the top is made of two pieces and everything is solid maple with exception of removable birch plywood panels that can be taken out if you need access to the radiator. You just take the drawers out to remove the panels.

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   Framing nailer and watch for scale.

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   The six drawers I made from scratch yesterday, going to have a finish piece of 3/4" maple on them....

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   There will be four shelves, two per outboard "cubbie", and six drawers, three per section inboard of the "cubbie", outboard of the radiator section...made the drawers previously, they will have solid maple fronts.

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   So here is where I'm at.....finished the fronts, finished the cubbies except for the shelves, sanded and put on 4 coats of poly on the inside of the cubbies, and two coats everywhere else on the inside to seal the thing.... It's covering two outlets on the wall, so that I put outlets on the furniture that I will hardwire in.....it also have four lights that dim at three levels for above each of the shelf sections, you can see the light switch under the front of it......just so you know, this thing is backwards and upside down now.....

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   The cubbie sides and back are in....the drawer section goes in the two middle sections.....

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   I'm wiring it up.....got lights that have a three setting dimmer power supply, the switch is just a static button.....Hampton Bay from Home Depot (I hate that store). The switch is the white thing, it will be just under the lip when flipped over.

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   Paul Waterloo

   
   

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   MisterT | Apr 04, 2007 03:08am | #2

   Nice work!!!
   If a pic is worth 1000 words...
   You just broke the Scrabble bank!!!I don't Know what I am doing

   But

   I am VERY good at it!!

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   calvin | Apr 04, 2007 03:28am | #3

   Paul, nice work. 

   But could we see a clear one with the babe?

   thanks.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   http://www.quittintime.com/

    

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   paulwaterloo1 | Apr 04, 2007 05:20am | #7

   Calvin.....just for you.....

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   DougU | Apr 04, 2007 06:56am | #8

   Paul

   Nice work, quite a transformation!

   Dont incourage Calvin, I think he's a perv!

   Doug

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   calvin | Apr 04, 2007 01:18pm | #10

   Beautiful,

   thanks man.A great place for Information, Comraderie, and a sucker punch.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   http://www.quittintime.com/

    

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   JAlden | Apr 04, 2007 05:46pm | #13

   Looks great.

   Lots of great old bungalows in Chicagoland. Are you in the suburbs or Chicago proper?

   Good call on widening the doorways.

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   paulwaterloo1 | Apr 04, 2007 05:51pm | #14

   I am in Forest Park.

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   draftguy | Apr 04, 2007 08:27pm | #15

   waaaayyy cool :)and the 'square' room is great . . . we designed something similar for the interior of a non-profit a year ago. Always amazing how such simple moves can make such a difference.

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   loucarabasi | Apr 26, 2007 04:00am | #16

   Your lady is pretty and nice shoes and feet! O- nice work too.

   Lmc

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   brownbagg | Apr 26, 2007 05:12am | #17

   the color sucks, but the lady on the couch aint bad

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   MisterT | Apr 04, 2007 02:14pm | #12

   I noticed that one too but thot it might be his daughter...women were invented so carpenters wouldn't rule the world!!!I don't Know what I am doing

   But

   I am VERY good at it!!

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   stevent1 | Apr 04, 2007 03:33am | #4

   Paul,

   Welcome to Breaktime. Many BT Forum members are on dail up or flyover country.

   Nice work. Did you have any bleed through masking off the diferent color fields?

   Chuck Slive, work, build, ...better with wood

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   paulwaterloo1 | Apr 04, 2007 05:14am | #6

   Taping the walls off was very time consuming, about 8 hours I would say. I developed a system of cutting the tape on an angle, and each corner of the vertical and horizontal would meet at the long part of the angle to make a crisp corner. No bleed through.

   Try having four colors of paint for the squares ready, four brushes and four rollers.

   Once you put the second coat on, you have to remove the tape, which took about another 2 hours or so.

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   Carole4 | Apr 04, 2007 03:57am | #5

   All I can say is WOW! Who's your decorator? :)I love the glass with the backlighting...Your color pallet is soooo good...You need to come out here to the SW and see some of the wonderful glass art...Kudos to you and whomever helped you...

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   andybuildz | Apr 04, 2007 08:24am | #9

   Really nice work Paul!! I can see how much thought went into all of that and how you probably thought about it non stopped. Gets physically and mentally exhausting at times doesn't it? Hmmmm, maybe just for us old guys over 50...lol.

   Looks like you plan on staying awhile. Certainly no ...what I call, "real estate white" in there...thank god.

   All I can say is ENJOY!!! "You deserve it"!

   Be well

   Namaste'

   andy...

    

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   McDesign | Apr 04, 2007 01:24pm | #11

   Nice work!  Good design, good execution, good color choice (says DW, the artist),; wonderful "feel" to the room.

   Can't say enough.  Let's see more of your work

   Forrest