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Walls Smell

September 23, 2010

We painted our walls with Sherman Williams paint. One day after we painted we had this awful smell in the room. We figured out it was coming from the walls. When you smell the paint that was left in the can it smells like paint. The walls though have a

I would like to stain a checkerboard pattern on my heart pine floor. How can I make a straight line without the stain bleeding under tape?

August 2, 2009

My old kitchen floor was covered with 2 layers of vinyl. We stripped the old tar paper off using hot water and towels. Now I have bare heart pine. I would like to stain a diagonal checkerboard pattern using black stain on every other square, and then just clear polyurethane