Thinking Ahead

My first real experience with staining was when we decided after raising our timber frame for our home, the installed tongue and groove boards on our first floor ceiling needed to be white-washed to make the space brighter. Over twenty years later, I am looking up and seeing the results of my endeavor and reminded of the benefit of thinking ahead. The white-washing entailed standing on a ladder for several days and using a small sponge on a stick to work the stain into the tongue and grooves between the boards. It also involved affixing a lot of tape to the timbers to avoid getting the white stain onto the golden hemlock. Read More