Countertop making and the ongoing sink saga...

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">We got a great start preparing the wormy chestnut boards for my countertops today, despite the threat of rain. You can see part one, pulling off the boards, <a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2013/08/countertop-progress.html">HERE</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFlcSkxI-BnVHBLS4U66PphxWUqeklVL-NwV_UV72rBmo1bA0K69Bccob8XKOamO__bzwF19KY4PIc568hXBCF1pN3s9sorM5KI4u_IoRNF5CVmjaZh_af9ss9hg2bDNSdsgbqe6nuA/s1600/countertops6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwFlcSkxI-BnVHBLS4U66PphxWUqeklVL-NwV_UV72rBmo1bA0K69Bccob8XKOamO__bzwF19KY4PIc568hXBCF1pN3s9sorM5KI4u_IoRNF5CVmjaZh_af9ss9hg2bDNSdsgbqe6nuA/s640/countertops6.jpg" width="426"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg"></a></div></div></span><br><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2013/08/countertop-making-and-ongoing-sink-saga.html#more">Read more...</a>

Countertop making and the ongoing sink saga...

We got a great start preparing the wormy chestnut boards for my countertops today, despite the threat of rain. You can see part one, pulling...

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Countertop progress...

<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even though the weather looked like rain, we were able to take all the wormy chestnut boards we needed for the counters today before the sky opened up. It's amazing how something that seems so simple and easy as taking boards off a house can drag on and on. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglesYscCO-87LWt6pFo_i9mpe6gbRLcmaZ7jfOvLGC8NvOTMY3lTIELnWKskXgke78lz5Vj5w9oYK71fx0e2NHqaNGHSJSZ1ndodLuaAt98kXNf7OdPP66bZV7ACDiGIakLCxdL2Mcmg/s1600/counters2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglesYscCO-87LWt6pFo_i9mpe6gbRLcmaZ7jfOvLGC8NvOTMY3lTIELnWKskXgke78lz5Vj5w9oYK71fx0e2NHqaNGHSJSZ1ndodLuaAt98kXNf7OdPP66bZV7ACDiGIakLCxdL2Mcmg/s640/counters2.jpg" width="426"></a></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><div><a href="javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('charset','UTF-8');e.setAttribute('src','http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinmarklet.js?r='+Math.random()*99999999);document.body.appendChild(e)})());"><img alt="Pin It" class="aligncenter" src="http://www.clickinmoms.com/cmprodaily/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/pinit.jpg"></a></div></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2013/08/countertop-progress.html#more">Read more...</a>

Countertop progress...

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Making the cabinet...

<div style="text-align: center;"><br> Yesterday I showed the cabinet my husband made for me and how I filled it with family treasures <a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-cabinet.html">HERE</a>. So today, I wanted to share how he made "something from nothing" using a tree, reclaimed and scrap wood. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He was really excited when I talked to him about making it for me until I told him I wanted to use the walnut tree my dad had cut and had milled into rough boards. These boards had been sitting in my dad's garage for at least 20 years. That means they were warped, dry and not that easy to work with. Did I mention my husband is patient and a perfectionist? </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Consolas, Menlo, Monaco, 'Lucida Console', 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21px;"><div><br></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQAUgo_3DJpksj7-7wEtgADzf7f4_fA0s4taRPKwSCVQSgLw955RAZL5pYNnuO435elECe01fNu9JYL0YtyaAD9O-geW4Lk6fkeW718rl3h0IJkiKfEdAz9DeznZJrewM2aqOwVAfOJTc/s1600/2013chinacabinet14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQAUgo_3DJpksj7-7wEtgADzf7f4_fA0s4taRPKwSCVQSgLw955RAZL5pYNnuO435elECe01fNu9JYL0YtyaAD9O-geW4Lk6fkeW718rl3h0IJkiKfEdAz9DeznZJrewM2aqOwVAfOJTc/s1600/2013chinacabinet14.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">He first designed the cabinet based on an old rule of proportion called the <a href="http://www.finewoodworking.com/fwnpdffree/011168048.pdf">"Golden Ratio."</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="http://anita-faraboverubies.blogspot.com/2013/03/making-cabinet.html#more">Read more...</a>

Making the cabinet...

 Yesterday I showed the cabinet my husband made for me and how I filled it with family treasures HERE . So today, I wanted to share how he m...

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