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Working on Walls
This lightweight, aluminum plaster hawk features a 12" x 12" blade scored to keep mud or plaster in place with rounded edges and corners. It’s fitted on a wood handle with a sponge-rubber hand protector to prevent calluses: $30.35. Kraft Tool, (800)
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Artemis Farm
Carol Goldberg has only loved one house in her life. She met the 1890 Victorian farmhouse as a 14-year-old hired to train horses in Westchester County, New York. Quickly, her immersion in everything equine grew to the point that she was begging her p
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Remuddling!
This Before (1919) and After (1955) set appeared an idea book from The American Home Publishing Company. The typography of the two dates—from barbershop quartet to Atomic Age—hints at the intention behind the remodeling. Instead we have an example of

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