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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 Multimedia 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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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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A truly multi screwdriver

June 4, 2009
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Tuesday's blog links: roundups, recalls, and rust removal

June 2, 2009
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Kelly Beamon, This Old House Senior Editor

Biography

This Old House magazine senior editor Kelly Beamon's passion for historic homes and design was sparked at a young age while browsing tag sales, flea markets and antique shops, and nurtured in her previous editing jobs for design magazines. She has amassed a knowledge of American furniture styles while growing her own collection of late-19th century and post-war modern furniture for 12 years. That nerd knowledge gets channeled into a TOH column on period furnishings and various house features.

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Indoor-style plastic rugs create an outdoor room look without the fuss

June 30, 2009
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Rusty old hardware? Try a bath of molasses

June 25, 2009
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New retro 50s-style spring chair

June 23, 2009
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Real grapevines for your pergola

June 16, 2009
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Steal this kitchen look by dressing up an island with trunk hardware

June 11, 2009
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Jennifer Brite, This Old House Associate Online Editor

Biography

Jennifer grew up in Indiana in an 1860's farmhouse built by her great-great grandfather, who unfortunately was a better farmer than home builder. After living with uneven floors and drafty rooms, she knows first hand the value of proper home repair and construction. She now lives in Rego Park, Queens, and has written about home design for Architecture, Architect, Architectural Lighting, Kitchen and Bath Business, and Luxury SpaFinder.

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Deal of the day: KitchenAid stand mixer for $249.99

November 4, 2009
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Customize your tile for a few dollars with stickers

November 3, 2009
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Deal of the day: Free shipping on all ornaments

November 3, 2009
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Deal of the day: $49 food processor

November 2, 2009
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Get your kid to eat his peas without any heavy lifting

October 30, 2009
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Meghan Dockendorf, This Old House Assistant Editor

Biography

Meghan joined the TOH ranks in June 2008. Her writing and editing background runs the gamut from Hollywood scripts, fashion, to West Coast architecture and interiors. Though her Manhattan apartment is dressed with contemporary furnishings, Meghan appreciates smart design of all styles and eras. The self-proclaimed furniture and home accessory shopaholic, brings her passion for scouting high-style items at affordable prices, space saving solutions, and creative transformations to TOH's By Design and product related columns, and Hardware Aisle blog.

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Compact kid's desk: Just piece it together

October 13, 2009
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Beadboard wainscoting: A nail-free alternative

October 4, 2009
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Bottle openers: Tools for the kitchen

October 1, 2009
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High-tech kettles: Color me happy

September 26, 2009
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Playful planter: Go on. Stuff it.

September 23, 2009
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Amy 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
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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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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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Now this is ridiculous

August 31, 2009
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Mark 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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"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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Natalie Rodriguez, This Old House Assistant Editor

Biography

Natalie Rodriguez, who began her career with TOH as an intern in 2005, is a born-and-bred apartment dweller whose knowledge of home repair has grown beyond tracking down the super (a skill in itself) to include architectural history and renovation techniques. But having grown up in a pre-war building, she has a deep appreciation of historic structures and the details that make home special-such as art tile or exterior shutters-which she covers in the magazine's Luxuries column.

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Peep hole helper

November 20, 2009
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No more unwrapping mishaps

November 18, 2009
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Are you prepared for a Thanksgiving mishap?

November 16, 2009
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Red, hot kettle from Hamilton Beach

November 13, 2009
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Banner stakes tell neighbors to stay off your lawn

November 11, 2009
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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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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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Trust "The Bish"

September 26, 2009
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Deborah 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
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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 Editorial Assistant

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 Online Editorial Assistant

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. Most of each home’s improvements are family efforts, with how-to information garnered from books and the Web. Tabitha covers yard & garden for the site, and wacky DIY, As Seen on TV home products, books & software, and yard & garden for The Hardware Aisle. She also serves as Board Manager for the TOH online community.

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Deal of the Day: Leather task chair for $29.99

November 18, 2009
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Draft a foolproof game plan for Black Friday bargain hunting

November 18, 2009
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Deal of the Day: TOH Exclusive Deals and Discounts

November 17, 2009
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Deal of the Day: Save 10% at Tractor Supply Co.

November 16, 2009
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Deal of the Day: EARLY Black Friday bargains at circuitcity.com

November 13, 2009
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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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Caulking kit is a hit

November 21, 2009
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No more excuses: Pro tool belt for all

November 19, 2009
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Triple-play tripod flashlight

November 17, 2009
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Go green with graywater

November 14, 2009
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Compact combo kit ideal for all DIYers

November 12, 2009
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Sal Vaglica, This Old House Editorial Assistant

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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Easy wheeling garden gear

October 31, 2009
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Oscillating tools

September 15, 2009
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Troy-Bilt’s new li-ion yard gear

September 12, 2009
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New app is a reference guide for wood

September 8, 2009
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All's well that dry well

August 29, 2009
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Linda Gallant, This Old House Assistant to the Editor

Biography

Linda grew up on the Jersey Shore watching her dad build and restore homes along the coast. She remembers paging through his sacred collection of TOH back issues (kept on the only sawdust-free shelf in his workshop), which instilled a deep appreciation for home design and craftsmanship at an early age. Linda started working as the Assistant to the Editor at This Old House in 2007 and now lives in historic Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where she spends lots of time gratefully strolling past some of the finest examples of brownstone architecture anywhere. She hopes to live in one someday, but realizes that’s a long shot (even in this market).

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Happy Weatherization Day, people!

October 30, 2009
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Doing some light reading...

October 26, 2009
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This floor makes cents (or takes cents to make)

October 22, 2009
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Energy Star rating burns less brightly after audit

October 19, 2009
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The (erasable!) writing on the wall...

October 15, 2009
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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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Mouse season

November 19, 2009
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Laundry can be so sweet

November 5, 2009
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Suitable for woodworkers (and cooks?)

November 3, 2009
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Save water, shower with a timer

October 27, 2009
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Saving paper

October 22, 2009
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