a bit OT: attaching things to walls

Those crosspieces may have more names than anything else in the trade. I grew up calling them dwangs - that's the standard term in New Zealand. My father built a lot of a our house by himself, and was an architect by profession, and I don't recall him ever saying that was a special Kiwi word for them, so they must have called them that in England too (he emigrated from there when I was 8). But up here in Scotland the usual word is "noggin" and nobody's ever heard of dwangs.

I love architectural terms. Soffits. Spandrels. Architraves. Mullions. Rabbets. Rhones. Pilasters. Hypocausts.

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there is a restaurant in Chicagoland that has a two sided fireplace that has a moose head on one side and on the other side is the back end of the moose!

ACE is the name of a chain of hardware stores in the US. They have a TV advertisement with the jingle "ACE is the place with the helpful hardware man" and, yes, they really do specify "man" -- his name, according to the website, is Lou.

Oh, MY! Hippo's, moose butts, and a screw in problem...how much spew can one person take, i ask you? i just love it here....

amy in CNY

on my way to go Black Friday Shopping now!!!

You would have enjoyed our kitchen remodeling. The part of the wall that comes down to the top edge of the upper cabinets/cupboards may be called a soffit or firdown (Fur Down?) whatever . . . that's how it sounds. There were some serious meetings and discussions about the construction because they were to be lighted. When the cabinets were installed, the tops of the cabinet doors just barely pass the lights on the soffits. Barely was good enough but DH insisted that the fir downs were almost too fer down. Groan. Snicker. Polly

Noggin in Lancashire too.

Cornice. Dado. Clerestory.

Lizzy

Get a stud finder and use it to locate wooden studs inside the walls. If there isn't a stud where you want it, use wall anchors. Wall anchors have a funny butterfly part that opens once it is pushed through the gypsum wall board, then you screw it up tight. You need anchors that are rated for the weight you intend to hang. Debra in VA See my quilts at

My 1957 ranch 2 x 4s that are actually 2 x 4. I measured them when we had a wall open during the bathroom repairs because the studs looked a little beefy to me. However, if there is even one pair of studs that are 16" on center anywhere in the house I'd be really amazed. Evidently that code went into effect after 1957. It sure made screwing the new drywall up rather interesting. Debra in VA See my quilts at

Flying buttress. (Never have seen one actually fly though.) Debra in VA See my quilts at

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Debra in VA See my quilts at

On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:10:20 -0600, Debra wrote (in article ):

Where is this restaurant? I almost have to see this.

Maureen