Old House Handyman Old-home renovation is a family tradition

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Alan D. Miller The remaining 7 days of the previous 12 months was filled with ups and downs. Up the stairs to evaluate for crown molding, down the stairs to minimize it, back up the stairs to set up it and measure the up coming lower, and then down yet […]

Alan D. Miller

For the first time in 20 years, Alan Miller was on his knees stripping blackened varnish from the dining room floor of his daughter's house.

The remaining 7 days of the previous 12 months was filled with ups and downs. Up the stairs to evaluate for crown molding, down the stairs to minimize it, back up the stairs to set up it and measure the up coming lower, and then down yet again.

The lowest I went, other than to the basement of Daughter No. 2’s new-to-her previous property for resources and provides, was to spend a day on my knees stripping blackened varnish from her eating space flooring.

But then I soared up to a new substantial on New Year’s Working day by satisfying one of my New Year’s resolutions: to straighten up my basement workshop and workbench. I’ll come back again to that soon, but initial a small much more about the perform at our daughter’s dwelling.

She bought the century-outdated property in July and has completed at minimum as a great deal in six months as her mom and I did in practically 30 many years of functioning on our existing previous property. It is a testament to her vision, setting up, fortitude and challenging function.

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