Restoration

[floridaorange]

No it's not the name of Digweeds next album, ... Rather I was curious if anyone else enjoys restoring things. I know Didi restores furniture. I used broken concrete recently to build a patio and now I'm restoring a grill that someone was throwing away. I also restored a dresser for my son's room and and old rocking chair. It's fun

[diegoff]

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great!!!
I like not to restore, but to repair or use parts of some things to complete other things. I even pick up stuff from the streets that can be useful

[thebanned1]

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No it's not the name of Digweeds next album, ... Rather I was curious if anyone else enjoys restoring things. I know Didi restores furniture. I used broken concrete recently to build a patio and now I'm restoring a grill that someone was throwing away. I also restored a dresser for my son's room and and old rocking chair. It's fun

i restored your wifes sex drive

[floridaorange]

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^

great!!!
I like not to restore, but to repair or use parts of some things to complete other things. I even pick up stuff from the streets that can be useful

Can you give some examples?

[clintlove]

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My wife and I do as well. She'd restored an old dresser she found at Salvation Army before we met, so when it was time to get the baby room together for our daughter, I decided to restore a dresser and nightstand I had from when I was growing up. Turned out pretty cool and we've got a coffee table and end table in our sights soon.

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[floridaorange]

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^Wow Clint, well done brotha! Loving the dr. suess animals We also have a diaper genie or whatever they are called ... we recently bought these small arm & hammer deodorizers (look like small pucks) for the bottom of ours, they have helped a lot .

here's the grill i found... my friends neighbor was throwing it away. it works really well, just needed to be de-rusted and painted a little

[dusk]

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Pretty awesome job you guys.... I used to restore old PC's (mostly the one's people had thrown away).... but not anymore, can't seem to find the time.

[Jenks]

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I restore entire homes. I've done about 5 so far. Some gut rehabs, others just cosmetic. I'll see if i can dig out some pics from my hard drive.

[diegoff]

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^



Can you give some examples?

last thing: I picked up from street some acrylic stuff from a demolition (they were office buildings, I think), cut pieces of that acrylic, used some metallic parts and screws from old electric devices I had already disassembled, and I built a protection for my mixer (also used glue), and some removable windows for the rack where I keep my equipment.
I always keep the screws when I disassemble stuff that doesn't work.
My brother last week used some wooden pallets to make some furniture (tables). He painted them, so they look very nice, and strong.

[floridaorange]

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^That is fucking awesome. I want to do that! I bet having a lot of tools helps though huh?

[diegoff]

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yes it does! at home, I do almost everything, except masonry (all related to build/repair walls and stuff like that), and tools are the only way to work easy and quickly

[floridaorange]

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^We don't have any tools besides like screw drivers. But in the future I hope to have a bunch .

[DancingQueen]

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I'm not very talented, but my mom restores old furniture &makes stained glass out of various pieces of colored glass she comes across

I used broken concrete recently to build a patio

This intrigues me....may I see a photo?

[res0nat0r]

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I just bought some stuff from Restoration Hardware.

[floridaorange]

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^

I'm not very talented, but my mom restores old furniture &makes stained glass out of various pieces of colored glass she comes across



This intrigues me....may I see a photo?

This is right after I finished, once it got rained on a bunch the sand compacted, etc. Home depot sells 2 different kinds of sand you will want to buy. Otherwise it was a free patio .



The largest pieces of concrete probably weighed over 120 lbs or so.