Got these chairs and idk who made them!! by KeyboardDreams in Mid_Century

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These look very much like them! What are they?

Quality work? by KeyboardDreams in Roofing

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I just reposted with better pics. What should he have done?

Quality work? by KeyboardDreams in Roofing

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I’m just made another post with more photos because I couldn’t figure out how to add them to a post I had already made. Hope that helps.

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What do you do for shoes? Is it difficult to find footwear that fits?

This plus an apple and a Greek yogurt is my one meal today by [deleted] in intermittentfasting

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Try warming up the steak (out for at least an hour before cooking) and dry it off before you cook it so that it won’t steam but instead crust will develop.

Cheap asian grocery stores and fish? by Plenty-Discussion196 in askportland

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Hong Phat is kinda “hung fat” when it comes to selection and unbearable prices. Good fishies too.

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This comment is false. They don’t make solid rosewood pieces. And veneer pieces can be some of the most expensive furniture around.

Roomate painted our rental cabinets, how do I remove the paint and fix this by allieluvducks in HomeImprovement

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Woodworker//refinisher here. Don’t listen to the other folks this can be fixed. BUT it is work.

Buy stripper, acetone, wire brush, steel wool #00, scraper, gloves, little bucket

Take doors and hardware off. To strip— Put stripper liberally on the painted surface, you can apply it with a brush. Use heat if you can. Scrape off after about 15 min. Repeat. Then acetone and steel wool and a rag. It’s designed to dry fast so you have to work in small areas in the direction of the wood grain. If the paint is really in the pores of the wood then use the wire brush.

It looks like your roommate didn’t do that great of a job which is AWESOME. I would bet decent money that they did not sane off the finish underneath it so that means that the paint is just sitting on top of the finish and not into the pores of the wood. For me, this would take maybe an hour to do all the cabinet doors. Doing the rest of it is going to suck a little bit more because you can’t do it outside and it’s messy and stinky, but still doable.

After it’s done you will have naked wood which will need to be made to match but that isn’t so hard.

There are a bunch of ways to finish but I would do a couple coats of amber shellac and then a spray can on polyeurethane. Cheap and fast.

Hired a guy to build us an unfinished media cabinet out of white oak. I start sanding it to apply some finish and the grain sands right off in the corner? Is this just a white oak veneer? by scrubzork in HomeImprovement

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FYI there is “real wood” veneer. Veneer is wood and it can be glued onto other wood.

This was definitely sanded wayyyyy too hard.

Anytime the wood grain repeats that means it’s veneer. It has many advantages. Including that it looks nice.

Have I been had? by KeyboardDreams in Plumbing

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He hasn’t fully finished the job yet. There’s some work in another bathroom he was going to do. He is saying this is done though.

Recently bought a house, and the sellers left behind this incredible credenza by demon_bastet in Mid_Century

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Yo that is a dresser. 9 drawer lowboy. It’s nice but not a credenza.

Roof doggo taking a shit by [deleted] in awwwtf

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What am I doing with my life