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This Week’s Featured Pulp Improvement
Pulp Path
Pulp Path
With the Pulp Deck Project near complete (any remaining items are fairly minor and can be taken care of as time and weather permits, including early next spring if necessary) and time running out on outdoor working conditions (we’ve already had multiple days with temps below freezing), we’ve moved over to the Pulp Path Project, our last remaining outdoor task for this year! We’ve been hitting it in small amounts as time permitted but this week we really got busy!
If you look at a couple of the below pics, you’ll see the existing state of the path we inherited, again, sort of a mismatch of asphalt, stone, dirt and grass. Needless to say, not always a great experience when walking out to the garage and the driveway, especially in inclement weather! Our proposed solution…..a nice brick walkway with side stone paths for access to the garage and the garbage cans.
As previously mentioned, we found a cool brick, known up here as “Boston City Hall Brick Pavers” which are exactly as named, and make up the plaza surrounding Boston City Hall. From the same landscape supply yard, we’d also found a nice pallet of varied flat stones (for the adjacent to the brick paths) so had a couple pallets of each delivered and we were up and running!
Not, of course, before using up the piles of stone and stone dust we had previously ordered to get us through the Pulp Patio project (we had ordered extra for the path). Just needed to do a little digging first and remove the aforementioned asphalt, stone, dirt and grass to lay a nice bed of the stone and stone dust for a proper base.
With our stone and stone dust bed down, it was time to figure out a brick pattern and do a dry run to see what it was going to look like. We decided to go with a herringbone pattern with a line of brick for each side edge. The dry run ended up looking very nice, albeit with a few dips and dives due to the path not being 100% flat and after a couple attempts at adding some sand to level things off, it made more sense to just land those outer edge bricks, pull the rest of them up and do a full re-screed of the path surface to get it as close to flat as possible.
Flat screed complete and we are in full brick set mode. Going to be a lot of cuts to be made for the edges so new diamond blade installed on the chop saw and we are ready to go!
The stone side paths to garage and garbage cans going down simultaneously (check them out below) and looking great so far! Back to work.
Progress pics below, see you next week!
Pulp Improvements
The 257 Project
Most Recent Pics for Sale
Nothing at All
A long time ago, in a small apartment in New York City, I was listening to a Prince song, simply called “7” and I was very much getting into the sound of the guitar playing, and what I perceived as an “open” chord strum, aka, just hitting those strings with no fingers applied (forgive me if that was mistaken). I tried to work that into something, and came up with a riff that I thought was pretty catchy. Not 100% sure what mood I was in at the time but decided that “you don’t need Nothing at All” was a good premise and ran with it. Years later, and also during the pandemic, decided it was a good time to rebuild it. Got busy with my wonderful musician friends and a new version it was.
Hope you enjoy!
The 1800 Project
Yes, it has been awhile since we mentioned the 1800 Project, however, we’ve recently completed the part 2 trailer for the feature length and down the road video for the complete project. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, The 1800 Project Part Deux (the finish). Enjoy!
Pulp Gameroom
Another video from the archives, this is all about taking a room with some nasty carpet with old paint on walls and converting it into a game room paradise (at least for us)! We stripped the space down to the concrete floor/bare walls and then went full steam ahead with the LVT flooring, patch/paint on walls/ceiling, new light bulbs and then the pool table, dart board, TV, a neon light and a bunch of cool wall art. Enjoy!
The Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach Limited Edition Prints Prints
We recently mentioned that we had been gifted a fine collection of Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach “limited edition” art prints which we intend to eventually sell here from the website (will be setting up a page in our shop collection). Currently doing a complete inventory of what we have and documenting all of that. Wanted to share a little taste of what we are talking about so will feature a pic or two each week until we get that shop page up and running. This week’s sample print below!
Spring Warbler
