Ben Ruset on July 4th, 2007

Yeah, green wasn’t such a hot idea.

At least I left the other wall alone (and primered) to see how the first one would come out. I’m getting sick of moving the china cabinet around.

This kind of reminds me of an old plaster wall.
So now I’m strongly leaning towards going back to the grey walls that [...]

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Ben Ruset on July 3rd, 2007

I got another section of trim and wainscot primered today. I’m going to need to figure out what to do with the doors, though. They’re old, cheap, hollow doors - most likely original to the house. I painted the closet door in Dana’s nursery and it got all warped, so painting is out. Depending on [...]

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Ben Ruset on July 3rd, 2007

I mentioned in a previous post that we had decided to ditch CentOS 5 because of the crazy LDAP authentication bug. We reloaded the servers with CentOS 4.4. Matt G. did the first one as I was working from home. I didn’t pay much attention at the time, but after he did it he said [...]

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Ben Ruset on July 1st, 2007

Today I worked on mitering up some new trim and primered the first wainscot panel.
About a year ago I put up wainscot panels and framed them in the cheap Lowes trim. The panels are birch plywood sold in 4×6 (I think) sheets, with beading cut through. At the time I only had a hand mitre, [...]

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