It's amazing how people in other countries manage to keep all the old houses, refurbish and transform them with minimal changes, but adding maximum comfort. I've always wondered how they manage to save and make them habitable, with all that a dwelling now entails -...
I have written before about burned wood and the method of protecting and coloring wood called Shou Sugi Ban. This is wood burned by classical methods where everything is controlled so that it can be stopped at the desired moment. But there is another way of burning wood - burning...
Repairing, refurbishing or restoring wooden doors in a house is a real challenge. Especially if it's old and built on the model of a country or manor house, with tall, single, double, double, folding, sliding, folding doors. And if the doors have small windows and lots of...
I recently had to think about sky wood finishes for a client. I have to tell you it was pretty tough. Do you know why? Because skywood is so beautiful that you're afraid of ruining it, of covering up its natural color, of making it too uniform...
Some time ago I attended a workshop in Bucharest to learn more about Annie Sloan paints. I also wrote about that experience because it was instructive and enjoyable. It wasn't the first time I had heard about the creamy paints, I had seen pictures on the net...
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