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DIY & Home Improvement

Sylvere

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18. HUGE DIYers, but we don't watch the DIY channel.

Reply to Hassin Bin Sober (Reply #15)

Wed Mar 6, 2019, 01:14 PM

Mar 2019

Your home must be fantastic! I went to graduate school at NIU, and had friends and professors in Chicago, so I know about how gorgeous the houses are there. Oak Park especially.

We were looking for reclaimed bowling alley flooring for our kitchen penninsula, but none was available.

I kwym about furniture size. Our home was built in the 1940s, so furniture in the original house has to be smaller than the McMansion sized stuff that sells now.

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Looking for advice on filling a gap between wall and sink [View all] Sylvere Feb 2019 OP

I suggest Bondo. Zoonart Feb 2019 #1

That sounds like a good way to go mercuryblues Feb 2019 #9

can you just replace the sink? samnsara Feb 2019 #2

This is the replacement sink. New ones like it cost upwards of $1500, and we wanted used. Sylvere Feb 2019 #4

Look on Amazon or EBay DUgosh Feb 2019 #3

Thank you. Sylvere Feb 2019 #5

Your sink isn't fabulous btw DUgosh Feb 2019 #8

It's pretty much all done, really. That's just something that's been Sylvere Feb 2019 #12

Awesome I followed you DUgosh Feb 2019 #16

Ooh - I like it! Sylvere Mar 2019 #17

We used the "Not So Big House" books as our bible. Sylvere Feb 2019 #14

We're in the midst of a kitchen remodel too, likewise procon Feb 2019 #6

We have uneven log walls Bayard Feb 2019 #7

Great idea, but we're avoiding a backsplash there, because the kitchen window is so low Sylvere Feb 2019 #11

"Floating" the wall with drywall mud is the way to go. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #10

Taking out the cabinets and sink has been nixed by Husband. Sylvere Feb 2019 #13

I'm in the mortgage business and the construction business. Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2019 #15

HUGE DIYers, but we don't watch the DIY channel. Sylvere Mar 2019 #18

Did you find a solution to your issue? shanti May 2019 #19