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Thomas Baker, This Old House Building Technology Editor

Biography

Tom lives by the seashore with his wife, two daughters and a Cocker Spaniel in a Dutch Colonial soon to be 90 years old. His quest to restore this dwelling to pristine perfection has given him rewarding opportunities to practice carpentry, painting, framing, tiling, plastering, and siding, to be exposed to toxic quantities of lead dust, asbestos particles, and paint fumes, and to take many trips to the Home Depot.

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Seal-once: long-lived waterproofer for wood

September 25, 2009
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Great new grout

June 3, 2009
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Permaflow P-trap: Clear solution to clogged drains

July 29, 2008
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Eco-Cloth: Special "green" microfiber cleans with water

July 22, 2008
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Rolling knee pads make floor work fun

July 15, 2008
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Alexandra Bandon, This Old House Online Editor

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Alex lives in a rented one-bedroom garden apartment in New York’s historic Greenwich Village, though she dreams of someday fixing up a whole house on one of the Village’s beautiful tree-lined streets. In the meantime, she practices her building skills by spending her own money and time to renovate her rental—making her every landlord’s dream tenant—and by participating in the occasional Habitat for Humanity blitz build.

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Like Us On Facebook to See Deals of the Day

November 8, 2011
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Deal of the Day: Save $10 at Ace Hardware

April 8, 2010
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Color inspiration: A contest between brightly hued rooms

October 26, 2009
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Say it ain't so, Norm

October 20, 2009
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Buy a sliver of New York City -- a wood sliver, that is

July 17, 2009
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Amy R. Hughes, This Old House Features Editor

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Amy, who writes the magazine's Salvage column and this blog's Creative Recycler posts, is always pleading with her husband, Jon, for help bringing junk (what he calls it) found on the street into their apartment in the Washington Heights section of New York City. “We already have a sink,” Jon will say. “True, but someday we’ll need another,” she will reply. Often, unable to pick up too-heavy items, and Jon refusing to budge, Amy will leave it behind. She hopes that will change. Amy’s been lifting weights.

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Fun kid's room storage

September 23, 2009
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Sweet new range

June 13, 2009
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Creative recycler: garden ornaments

August 16, 2008
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Creative recycler: diy mantelshelf

August 6, 2008
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Creative recycler: wooden ironing board

July 29, 2008
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Jefferson Kolle, Contributor

Biography

Through a process of elimination, Jefferson Kolle is trying to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up. At different times in his life he has worked as a pearl diver, an oil-field rough neck, a bailbondsman, a carpenter and contractor, a university instructor, an editor, and a writer. He is quite certain that he loves being a husband and friend to his wife, Jennifer, and a father to his four amazing children, Tyler, Annie, Sam, and Mae. He writes from a dark basement office in his 1924 house in Bethel, CT.

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Consider a Shopsmith

May 2, 2009
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DIY school

May 1, 2009
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Custom stainess steel countertops

April 30, 2009
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Ripped out by the roots

April 29, 2009
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Another nail puller...The best yet?

April 28, 2009
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Keith Pandolfi, This Old House Associate Editor

Biography

Keith Pandolfi has written about green building and historic preservation for This Old House since 2005. But his appreciation for old houses began in a turn-of-the century double shotgun-style house in New Orleans, where he lived for five years while covering architecture and historic preservation for a local business weekly. His current residence is a garden apartment in an 1880s brownstone located in a Brooklyn, NY, landmarked district.

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Hope (and Soap) Floats in Cincinnati

April 1, 2010
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This old house—saved!

October 5, 2009
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Putting the "green" in Greensburg, Kansas

September 23, 2009
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Georgia on your mind?

September 14, 2009
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Own Bruce Springsteen's house!

September 9, 2009
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Mark Powers, This Old House Senior Technical Editor

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Mark was raised by serial renovators and grew up in eight different houses before he reached high school. He followed in his parents’ footsteps, but has only subjected his 5-year-old daughter, Sophia, to a couple of moves so far. He now lives with his wife and two children in a Brooklyn 4-story brownstone that he purchased and shares with his brother's family. He's guestimating 25 years of DIY renovations before the next move.

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More Hope For a Leaky Faucet

June 1, 2009
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"Roll It Up, Plug It In, Bang It Out" - The Portable Carpentry Workshop

May 28, 2009
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The best drywall patch

August 12, 2008
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Iron out a dent in wood

July 30, 2008
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Cure for a door slammer

July 26, 2008
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Nathaniel Garber Schoen, Contributor

Biography

Opened in 1884, Garber Hardware has served Greenwich Village, in New York City, for almost a century and a quarter. And throughout its history, the same family has run the business. Nathaniel Garber Schoen is the great great grandson of the store's founder, so you can say he bleeds nuts and bolts. He grew up working alongside his family, so he's a font of knowledge who fields questions from tool-challenged New Yorkers on a daily basis and somehow manages to keep his sense of humor.

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All I want for (next) Xmas

December 12, 2009
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Clamp lamp

November 21, 2009
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Big S-Biner!

November 14, 2009
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Fall back (on fresh batteries)

October 31, 2009
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Knot too shabby

October 24, 2009
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Deborah Snoonian, This Old House Senior Editor

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Deborah Snoonian joined TOH in 2007 to oversee the magazine’s “Around the House” department. She and her husband recently bought their first apartment in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, so she’s constantly on the lookout for home products and DIY projects that will help make the space their own. Next on her list: building an island to create more storage for their open-plan kitchen and living room.

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The sheds of summer

August 28, 2009
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A place worth saving

August 26, 2009
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Poor indoor air quality: Nothing to joke about

July 14, 2009
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DIY solar: fantasy or reality?

July 10, 2009
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TOH AppWatch: Aquariform's PaintSwatches

July 8, 2009
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Jennifer Stimpson, This Old House Assistant Editor

Biography

Long before making the leap from the Midwest to the East Coast, Jennifer Stimpson spent her childhood weekends working alongside her sister and parents on their home-based jobsites. Her love of carpentry and tools has been passed down from a long line of Michigan craftsmen—one of her grandfathers was a finishing carpenter, another a master plumber—and landed her TOH’s Step-by-Step column where she carefully guides homeowners through their own weekend projects.

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What is it – vent cover or cheese grater?

August 28, 2009
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What is it – corn peeler or caulk gun?

June 30, 2009
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Wallet-friendly window film

June 26, 2009
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What is it – stilt or sand castle form?

June 23, 2009
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Hot is out, cool is in

June 10, 2009
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Tabitha Sukhai, This Old House Associate Online Editor

Biography

Having dual residences—one of which is a 100-year-old, 6-family rental property in Brooklyn—makes for a tight budget and lots of DIY. It wasn’t until the family joined in purchasing a 1960s split-level Upstate NY property that Tabitha got to know her inner gardener and interior decorator. Most of each home’s improvements are family efforts, with how-to information garnered from books and the Web. Tabitha—who remembers watching This Old House with her grandma as a kid—is the editor behind TOH's Wildest Houses and Celebrity Homes for Sale galleries. She also manages the TOH social media presences on Twitter and Facebook.

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Today's Links: How your bathroom is hurting your resale value, America's most expensive mobile home, more

September 19, 2011
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Now's a good time to fertilize your lawn

September 14, 2011
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Real-life "Up" movie house replica

September 8, 2011
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Hurricane Irene: Cleaning up after a flood with help from FloodSafety.com

September 2, 2011
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Deal of the Day Special NY Alert: "Buy Green, Save Green" on appliances at Sears

September 2, 2011
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Joseph Truini, Contributor

Biography

Joe Truini is a home-improvement writer living in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut. He has written articles for a number of national publications, including This Old House, Fine Homebuilding, Popular Mechanics, Outdoor Life, and Country Living. His worked has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Hartford Courant newspapers.

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Two handy tools in one

October 29, 2011
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Easy-stack bike rack

October 27, 2011
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Insulation information

October 25, 2011
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Portable fire pit

October 22, 2011
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One tough tool tote

October 20, 2011
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Sal Vaglica, This Old House Assistant Editor

Biography

After growing up in a family of contractors and masons, then working as a hardwood flooring contractor, Sal Vaglica says joining TOH in 2006 felt like coming home. He's constantly mining knowledgeable sources for insight he can use on his own 1950s split-level house, where he has ample opportunity to test tools or products and let readers know what is new, and-most importantly-what works.

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Scotts’ new seed spreading system

September 21, 2011
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Semi homemade zero clearance insert

September 20, 2011
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Craftsman C3 cordless inflator

May 17, 2011
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Gerber’s new FIT multitool

April 15, 2011
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Painting product that works

April 7, 2011
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Deborah Baldwin, This Old House Articles Editor

Biography

Deborah Baldwin and her husband, Irwin, have been renovating ever since they were newlyweds and wondered out loud what would happen if they demolished a wall in their first apartment. (A bigger kitchen and many months of work, as it turned out.) They went on to renovate a 1920s row house in Washington and, after a five-year interlude in Paris, now live in Manhattan, where they wrestle with their 80-year-old co-op apartment using tips Debby gleans at work. After two years as a contributor to This Old House magazine, Debby joined the staff full time as Articles Editor in August, 2009.

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Giftable Tables

November 29, 2010
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Bosch's new fridge

July 9, 2010
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House gifts

April 14, 2010
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Glass walls that fold up and go away

April 7, 2010
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Closet reckoning

April 1, 2010
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