Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille

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Artisan craftsman. American, but world citizen. I love family, Art, travel and multicultural democracy. OG skater punk. GenX girl dad & native Yinzer. 🖕fascists, religious zealots and dictators Good night Chesty, wherever you are

Detail of Sainte-Chappelle's gilded, carved plaster blind arcade that runs the perimeter walls of this high Gothic masterpiece below its impossibly high stained glass curtain walls. Note the arabesque arches inset with repeated quatrefoils terminating in pilasters that mimic the building's actual structure. The very gothy-goth-goth quatrefoils themselves are inset with paintings and or Craft painted fleur-de-lis stencils on the renowned French royal blue. A botanical enrichment band of gilded craved plaster separates the blind arcade from the soaring windows above. In between are gilded carved plaster angel forms
Powder room with bidet/toilet, red lacquer vanity with vessel sink and burnished gold accessories
Mixed white lacquer and clear finished natural hickory cabinets with glass doors at the top, large hanging pendant lights over a giant kitchen island made of two rows of base cabinets
New wallpaper from entry door showing new bathroom accessories and mirrors
New paint. From entry door
Completed pale green and off white striped paper from the entry door of a large bedroom
Outside-inside corner combo
Text screenshot about a woman calling her hoo-ha a hot pocket
Mixed cilor hickory and poplar built-in kitchen from 2019
A severe thunderstorm storm passes low on the horizon, pushing high cumulus clouds still illuminated by the setting sun to the west from behind
The literal edge of the storms passing 10 miles north of us
Holy shit did the floors just turn out great
Process picture revealing the newly built in place 3/4" beech front plywood boxes under freshly sprayed lacquer undercoat prior to sanding
My buddy Hemingway looking handsome
These beams don't do anything except add to the post modern look.
I took the rust to bare metal again, this time I sealed the effected areas with a heavy duty rust preventative primer before coating it again with epoxy primer. Then the red-brown epoxy top coat
Brilliant lavender pink and gold sunset on the horizon
Canova's stunning technical and aesthetic masterpiece marble sculpture of Cupid and Psyche from Greek Mythology
Extra large wet area that includes His and Hers showers, a free-standing acrylic bathtub with side filler. A curtain wall of shower glass separates the wet area from His and hers vanities and an unobstructed view into the master bedroom. the WC is in the smaller room through the door at the right
A fiestaware bowl of jambalaya
From the front left corner at the curtain glass wall looking at the back of the store
Demo'd strip mall store under drywall repair and primer. The old ceiling tiles are removed for replacement
Most of them were clad in cementitious siding and battens, though some were predominantly brick. The brick ones were much less work for me. I ended up doing 24 of these, and by location 5, I was putting up the siding & battens as well as doing the interior and exterior paint. By location 15, I was doing the interior carpentry too
This is their hand drawn handicapped space marking and i laugh every sigle day
The kitchen is also cherry wood, but not from the property, so it has a slightly different color. I did not manufacture the cabinets, so it was exempted from this guy's insane-o insistence that every piece of trim be stained to the same color, which is something natural wood is incapable of doing.
Extruded polyurethane crown molding with a traditional carved plaster look
For a little over a decade, I had a maintenance contract with this facility to do their general construction like building/moving warehouse shelves, keeping the safety visuals such as OSHA color coding things like hazards, fire protection, gas lines, etc I was really only permitted to work in the operations areas during shutdowns, so it meant missing a lot of holidays for union triple time, which meant a lot for our family. Anyway, look at this unfathomable sea of plastic water bottles
Elon Musk and Donald Trump tweets about the 2024 el3ctions
NHL all-time Team according to the Sporting News. Somehow, no Sidney Crosby.
Murano from the Doge Palace, Venice. The water of Venice lagoon and the sky are nearly identically colored
Cabinet bodies built, sanded and prepped for spraying in place
Getting started resurfacing trad plaster in a large white room
A picture of the sunset beyond a green lawn and ancient apple trees.
Room for entertaining this guy's wine making buddies. I replicated a Tuscan plaster finish on the walls, used reclaimed cedar planks from the house he demo'ed on this property to build his mansion, which I then personally sprayed nearly 20 gallons of high build cabinet lacquer on it. You can just see the depth of the clear lacquer, and to me, that ceiling is just fabulous
Manly af using his pregnant wife as a bullet sponge
Graffiti of Super Mario Bros Luigi asking, "Who is next?"
Simple, trad white subway tile walk-in shower with full room wainscoting, marble hexagonal floor with marble border and sanitary tile base, window pane glass divider in lieu of shower doors
My ladder is nearly straight up and down due to the tight spacing between houses. It's taking longer to do one corner than entire windows due to my fear
View from the dormer
Process pic
Before
My buddy Hemingway sprawled across my lap
A picture of our dining room's northest corner
View across the enormous island, dark stained cabinets, stainless appliances and white quartz countertops. Pendant lighting above the island
Hemmy (fore) and Fitz (behind)
A Chicago style hot dog served with tots and a Yuengling draught
There was a fake subway tile paneling wainscoting that left this just insane glue debris on the plaster walls. My solution was to laminate it with tile board and re-build the wainscoting in real tile
Sunset putting one side of the canal in light, the other shadow. Venice, Italy July '21
Firey sunset of east Bay, Savannah Georgia
Screen shot of a post that says, "Unfortunately my body doesn't know the difference between being held at gun point and Penguins hockey game day."