A blank pallet painted

If i had to do all that work you wouldnt have seen me for about a year. Nice work youve done there .. love that knotty pine is makin a come back!

-- "there aren’t many hand tools as awe-inspiring as the #8 jointer. I mean, it just reeks of cast iron heft and hubris" - Smitty

I can’t help it. I keep having to scroll back up and see that beautiful ceiling. Nice work on everything.

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Ha William. Here in Maine you can’t turn around without bumping into a 75 foot white pine tree. I rarely work with it and the stuff with knots is considered nearly worthless as it’s well, got knots and is soft so it squashes when worked in the shop. It’s great for framing cabinet carcasses though. We’d burn it but it’s so soft it goes up like paper. It pops and crackles nicely in an open fire though.

thanks for the comments. The ceiling reaches 28 feet.

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I have to agree with william. The ceiling is beautiful and at 28’ very impressive. The staircase is not too shabby either. Thanks for sharing.
Scott

-- Scott Smith, Southern Illinois

very very cool stuff Daniel. I love the wood trims and warm feel it gives the house (at least in the pictures)

-- ㊍ When in doubt - There is no doubt - Go the safer route.

You say the knots make it worthless? I say the knots make it beautiful.
And twenty eight feet? In these neck of the woods, twelve foot ceilings are tall.
Is there a difference between this white pine and the pine we have here in the south? While lighter in color, what I see in the pictures reminds me more of antique heart pine. Here in the south, they seldom let the pines get large enough to get knotty appearance like that. If they do, I sure haven’t seen it.

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William, the edge of the wall is exactly 12 ft. then the pine starts from there.
I don’t know about the southern pine. I do know that our pressure treated lumber is made of what we call southern yellow pine. It is actually yellowish and splits easily, sort of a hard wood. White pine, if you have cabinets made with it you can dent it with a good hard thumbnail. So, eventually your cabinets have dents in them. Most of our pine has knots. It’s considered #2 or 3 or 4 and get cheap as it gets knottier. The knotless select stuff is pretty expensive. You can tell what’s common to an area by visiting a big box store. here up north it’s all pine boards in the board section Then there’s some expensive red oak, some rock maple, and poplar. Stuff like walnut is never seen unless you go to a place that sells hardwood lumber.

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Geez Dan… you knocked that off and couldn’t make the kitchen cabinets and stay on LJ??? What’s with you… getting old ;-)
Great to have you back and that house is gorgeous!! The ceiling is great and that railing and hallway… just incredible!
Ellen

-- Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The home does look good. All that is left now is finishing up…right? In my area of the country white pine is expensive. It is used for a paint grade material in some cabinets and such. I don’t care for it there because it does dent as you have pointed out. White pine and a 2 year old in in 3 years your house looks like a giant dent. Those little guys have to grow up too and we were all there once. In this are athough, good white pine and red oak sell for about the same price. Get a grip of that! Yellow pine is a little cheaper. I suppose it is shipping that makes the difference.
You should be proud of your accomplishment. I would still be looking for my box of nails. LOL

Grandpa,
What doesn’t show in the pictures is the 32×34 foot garage that was empty when I worked. I literally brought all my tools there and had everything on hand that I needed. Miter saw, all my hand/powertools and I’ve got an old smaller rockwell table saw that I’ve refurbished, put wheels on and keep for moving around like this. So, I almost had my shop at the place. When you can do that it really helps. When I took off on the last day my pickup was heaped full.

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You nailed it. Southern yellow pine is exactly as you describe. It’s soft, but it does split easily. I refuse to use it on anything unless I plan to predrill and screw every joint. It doesn’t glue. It doesn’t take nails well (it does for construction sake, I’m talking finished look here). It doesn’t take screws well (unless predrilled from my expererience). I was at Home Depot just an hour ago and checked. It is labeled southern yellow pine.
Maybe it’s the town I live in. I’ve already cotten two PMs from my comments here from others that love the stuff. I see where the southern yellow pine has a place, esepcially in homes locally. All I’m saying it as far as beauty goes, it doesn’t hold a candle to what you have on that ceiling. It is truly beautiful.

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Great remodeling job. I love all the wood and even their paint colors.

The cabinets look like some doors have bead board and some are plain. Is that accurate?

I’m going to have my kitchen redone and like bead board and the plain, but hadn’t thought about mixing them.

-- Vicki on the Eastern Shore of MD

It looked like the door patterns were mismatched to me too. I didn’t say anything because I thought maybe it was just the camera angle. I went back and looked again though. I don’t think camera angle would account for some of the differences I see. It still looks good though.

-- http://wddsrfinewoodworks.blogspot.com/

Yes William,

Here in the north you can’t buy southern Yellow pine in the stores unless it’s pressure treated lumber. If figure all the pressure treated stuff comes from the south. We have pine boards but all our framing material is either spruce which works well for framing but also tends to split some, and fir.

Must be the angle because all the patterns in the doors are the sme

Vicki: yes the lower ones are bead board doors in the kitchen. I like the plain maple at the top.

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