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Thursday, February 05, 2009

Finishing the timber

I've designed the upstairs floor to be light, in contrast to the dark ground floor and so we try out a few methods of doing this, before settling on a standard wood paint watered down 25% with paint thinner.




Bottom right is a test with beeswax for another part of the project.
Posted by Kieran at 11:59 pm

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