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Custom Trim, Windows, and Pocket Door
Custom Trim, Windows, and Pocket Door
New custom Pella windows give a view onto the yard from the dining room. The windows are trimmed out in custom millwork that was created from a ...
Cut Nails Bring Authenticity to Wood Floors, Walls, and Cabinets
Cut Nails Bring Authenticity to Wood Floors, Walls, and Cabinets
A wide-planked wood floor or wood-paneled wall distinguishes itself with hand nailing using square, cut nails. A machine cut nail can look just as ...
Cutting a Valance Pattern
Cutting a Valance Pattern
In Naples, Florida, Bob helps Al Stiles build a jig valence over a kitchen window to match the decorative stiles on the kitchen hutch.
Cutting and Installing Baseboard Trim
Cutting and Installing Baseboard Trim
In the master bedroom, Bob Ryley is installing the medium density fiberboard baseboard trim. Where two pieces of trim meet in a corner, Ryley's ...
Cutting and Installing Door Trim
Cutting and Installing Door Trim
With the door to the master bath installed, Ryley conceals the rough carpentry work with door casings. Three boards make up the door casing — two ...
Cutting Circles
Cutting Circles
Cutting Joists using 17th Century Construction Techniques
Cutting Joists using 17th Century Construction Techniques
Bob is joined by Pret Woodburn from Plimouth Plantation who shows how mortise-and-tenon joinery was cut back in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Cutting Up
Cutting Up
Deck Lumber
Deck Lumber
Deck Maintenance
Deck Maintenance
Decks as Outdoor Rooms
Decks as Outdoor Rooms
Decks are living rooms, breakfast rooms, exercise rooms, rooms for sunbathing, rooms for gatherings of friends and family, rooms for quiet times ...
Decorative Molding
Decorative Molding
Depth Stop
Depth Stop
Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
Designing and Crafting Historical Reproduction Crown Molding
Brent Hull, of Hull Historical Millwork, is on location to help with the installation of the dining room's crown molding. The WindsorONE millwork ...
Discussing How Glulams are Manufactured
Discussing How Glulams are Manufactured
Bob visits the Willamette Industries glue laminated facilities in Eugene, Oregon, for a tour with General Sales Manager Steve Killgore to learn ...
Discussing the Garage Framing and Selecting a Garage Door
Discussing the Garage Framing and Selecting a Garage Door
Bob and Ryley review the plans and progress of the post-and-beam storage building, and choose doors for the end of the building. Framing continues ...
Discussing the Home's Exterior
Discussing the Home's Exterior
Bob talks to Ryley about a fence and a brick path and to landscaper Susan Hoffer about a perennial and herb garden.
Discussion of the Northern White Cedar Picket Fence
Discussion of the Northern White Cedar Picket Fence
Bob meets with Dave Gordon from Cantarten Forest Products to discuss the design and installation of a northern white cedar picket fence. Larry ...
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