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Fuchsia and Mud!
Nov. 30th, 2009 02:39 am
The picture comments say it all:
The picture comments say it all:
Plaster Progress
Nov. 28th, 2009 03:39 amThanks to help from several friends, my new housemate's room is coming along at a phenomenal rate. Except for minor touch-ups and finish work, the natural plaster is finished, meaning that about 200 lbs. of sand, clay, and pigment have been loaded onto the walls. I'm not 100% happy with the result, yet, but over all it's not bad for a first try. The final color is a light terracotta, with the ceiling left a much-lighter natural clay color. One nice thing about clay plaster is that all one has to do to re-work it is get it wet and wait a while.
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The Latest Fad
Nov. 30th, 2006 02:55 amI'm intending to do use a Japanese Shoji screen motif as the unifying element in remodeling my house. After having shopped around a bit and discovered even fairly humble screens go for $120 or more, I decided it was worth looking into making them myself. I was hugely into working with my hands as a kid, and might well have been the pinnacle of human Lego engineering at some point around age 12. Since getting into computers, I've really missed actually physically building things. I've finished reading Shoji: How to Design, Build, and Install Japanese Screens by Jay van Arsdale and ordered my first set of tools based on it's advice.
Now I just have to figure out what all these woodworking terms mean...
Now I just have to figure out what all these woodworking terms mean...
