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Posted on April 2, 2023

✅ Ceiling is done! All knotty pine is installed.

Next step is electrical, but that will have to wait for a few weeks #wine #ProjectWineCellar

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Posted on April 1, 2023

✅ Walls 3 and 4 complete, with zero boards to spare. ?

Tomorrow I plan to at least get started on the ceiling. #wine #ProjectWineCellar

Two walls sided with tongue-and-groove knotty pine. The left wall has a cutout for a cooling unit. The far wall has rough framing for a doorway. All those cuts made these two walls take twice as long as the first two.

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Posted on March 26, 2023

I got 2¾ walls sided before calling it a weekend. Next weekend I’ll finish the walls and do the ceiling. #wine #ProjectWineCellar

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Posted on March 25, 2023

✅ Second wall sided with tongue-and-groove knotty pine #wine #ProjectWineCellar

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Posted on March 25, 2023

✅ First wall sided with tongue-and-groove knotty pine. #wine #ProjectWineCellar

The back wall of a soon-to-be wine cellar sided with unstained knotty pine, hung so boards run horizontally.

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Posted on March 4, 2023

St. Patrick’s Day themed pretzels for tonight’s party. (Plus a few extra for quality control!)

Pretzel rods, dipped in white chocolate and decorated with green sprinkles, cooling on parchment paper. At the edge of the photo are a few broken pretzel rods, dipped in white chocolate, but undecorated.

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Posted on February 24, 2023

Second coat of Tung oil is applied, and the second half of the needed wall boards has been acquired so that they will be ready to finish on the next trip. #wine #ProjectWineCellar

Tongue-and-groove pine boards spread out on the garage floor, dryingA stack of unfinished tongue-and-groove pine

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Posted on February 23, 2023

I’m using tongue-and-groove pine for the walls and ceiling of the wine cellar. Today I got a first coat of Tung oil applied to about half the boards I’ll need. Second coat goes on tomorrow. #wine #ProjectWineCellar

About 40 planks of tongue-and-groove knotty pine, laying on plastic sheets on a garage floor

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