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We have a dry cabin (no running water). We have an outhouse but are putting in a closet-sized room for a compost toilet inside the cabin. We have it framed and dry walled, but I’m not sure the next steps we should take. We wanted to put tile flooring and already have a door, but what order do we...

I impulsively painted a herringbone pattern on doors that will be hung in a basement living room/no conforming guest room. I used paint leftover from a dozen different projects around the house, different brands, colors, finishes, etc. They are all interior latex paint (the SW ProClassic is...

Our storm door blew off in a bad storm and broke the doorframe when it went. We are putting in a new door which needed to be done anyway. Our old house doesn't accommodate modern door sizes so previous owners put up boards to shrink the doorway. The boards had rotted right at the floor and up...

I painted my kitchen cabinets (for those of you who offered advice in my other post, I painted the old hinges instead of getting new ones) with SW ProClassic, which is really beautiful paint, by the way. When I asked the guy at the SW store about poly/clear coat, he looked at me like I was crazy...

I really want to paint my kitchen cabinets white but I'm not sure what to do about the hinges. The cabinets and doors were built and installed by a previous owner and his brother in 1953. They are solid wood and in great condition, but they aren't a standard shape or size. I would prefer...

I finally got around to finishing replacing the detached drywall tape on my kitchen ceiling. I retaped, mudded, sanded, wiped dust, and primed. I didn't prime the whole ceiling, since I'm just going from white to white and the previous owners painted the whole house shortly before we bought it...

I started picking at a small area on the kitchen ceiling that looked like it was drooping. A 5 foot strip of paper drywall tape just instantly came loose like nothing was holding it up there except for the paint on top of it. No drywall paper or anything else came down with it. Why would that...

I don't know if the wood floors in our 1895 house are original, but they are old. The outline of the old trapdoor into the cellar is still in our dining room, and the home inspector when we bought the house said the third and final time the basement was dug/expanded was before 1960, based on the...

I used some ready mixed all-purpose joint compound left over from another project to fill in the kitchen walls yesterday. The previous homeowners did a poor job of smoothing out the uneven plaster, so there were a lot of areas needing to be filled in. I was feeling pretty good about how nice...

After smoothing out my bathroom walls and ceiling with joint compound, I'm ready to prime and paint. I'm using Zinsser bulls eye 123 primer and it says it dries to the touch after 30 minutes and additional coats can be applied after 1 hour. It also says full adhesion and hardness come after 7...

We bought an 1895 house last year in good condition and have been doing minor repairs bit by bit. The only bathroom is upstairs and had a significant moisture problem due to lack of ventilation, resulting in peeling paint. We finally installed a bathroom fan that seems to have solved the...