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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
Permalink | Comments (5)Great new grout
June 3, 2009
Permalink | Comments (2)Permaflow P-trap: Clear solution to clogged drains
July 29, 2008
Permalink | Comments (5)Eco-Cloth: Special "green" microfiber cleans with water
July 22, 2008
Permalink | Comments (2)Rolling knee pads make floor work fun
July 15, 2008
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More PostsAlexandra Bandon, This Old House Online Editor
Biography
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
Permalink | Comments (10)Deal of the Day: Save $10 at Ace Hardware
April 8, 2010
Permalink | Comments (0)Color inspiration: A contest between brightly hued rooms
October 26, 2009
Permalink | Comments (1)Say it ain't so, Norm
October 20, 2009
Permalink | Comments (20)Buy a sliver of New York City -- a wood sliver, that is
July 17, 2009
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More PostsAmy R. Hughes, This Old House Features Editor
Biography
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
Permalink | Comments (0)Sweet new range
June 13, 2009
Permalink | Comments (0)Creative recycler: garden ornaments
August 16, 2008
Permalink | Comments (1)Creative recycler: diy mantelshelf
August 6, 2008
Permalink | Comments (1)Creative recycler: wooden ironing board
July 29, 2008
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More PostsJefferson 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
Permalink | Comments (7)DIY school
May 1, 2009
Permalink | Comments (0)Custom stainess steel countertops
April 30, 2009
Permalink | Comments (5)Ripped out by the roots
April 29, 2009
Permalink | Comments (2)Another nail puller...The best yet?
April 28, 2009
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More PostsKeith 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
Permalink | Comments (5)This old house—saved!
October 5, 2009
Permalink | Comments (1)Putting the "green" in Greensburg, Kansas
September 23, 2009
Permalink | Comments (1)Georgia on your mind?
September 14, 2009
Permalink | Comments (0)Own Bruce Springsteen's house!
September 9, 2009
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More PostsMark Powers, This Old House Senior Technical Editor
Biography
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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May 28, 2009
Permalink | Comments (12)The best drywall patch
August 12, 2008
Permalink | Comments (13)Iron out a dent in wood
July 30, 2008
Permalink | Comments (7)Cure for a door slammer
July 26, 2008
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More PostsNathaniel 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
Permalink | Comments (2)Clamp lamp
November 21, 2009
Permalink | Comments (0)Big S-Biner!
November 14, 2009
Permalink | Comments (0)Fall back (on fresh batteries)
October 31, 2009
Permalink | Comments (0)Knot too shabby
October 24, 2009
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More PostsDeborah Snoonian, This Old House Senior Editor
Biography
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
Permalink | Comments (0)A place worth saving
August 26, 2009
Permalink | Comments (1)Poor indoor air quality: Nothing to joke about
July 14, 2009
Permalink | Comments (0)DIY solar: fantasy or reality?
July 10, 2009
Permalink | Comments (3)TOH AppWatch: Aquariform's PaintSwatches
July 8, 2009
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More PostsJennifer 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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June 30, 2009
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June 26, 2009
Permalink | Comments (5)What is it – stilt or sand castle form?
June 23, 2009
Permalink | Comments (3)Hot is out, cool is in
June 10, 2009
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More PostsTabitha 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
Permalink | Comments (0)Now's a good time to fertilize your lawn
September 14, 2011
Permalink | Comments (2)Real-life "Up" movie house replica
September 8, 2011
Permalink | Comments (0)Hurricane Irene: Cleaning up after a flood with help from FloodSafety.com
September 2, 2011
Permalink | Comments (0)Deal of the Day Special NY Alert: "Buy Green, Save Green" on appliances at Sears
September 2, 2011
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More PostsJoseph 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
Permalink | Comments (3)Easy-stack bike rack
October 27, 2011
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October 25, 2011
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October 22, 2011
Permalink | Comments (0)One tough tool tote
October 20, 2011
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More PostsSal 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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September 20, 2011
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May 17, 2011
Permalink | Comments (0)Gerber’s new FIT multitool
April 15, 2011
Permalink | Comments (2)Painting product that works
April 7, 2011
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More PostsDeborah 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
Permalink | Comments (3)Bosch's new fridge
July 9, 2010
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April 14, 2010
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April 7, 2010
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April 1, 2010
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