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Reclaimed Wood

My version of reclaiming wood was salvaging the cedar on the walls of my enclosed back porch. When the porch was built these walls were a light creamy white, but over the years they turned orange and a blotchy orange at that. At one point I had a little roof leak which added to the streaky mess on parts of the ceiling. This is the entrance I use daily and the entrance used by almost everyone who comes to my house, I thought it might be time to come up with an improvement plan. After discussing it with my brother, Dan, I decided to take his advice and scrub the walls with TSP. The ceiling....well, more on that later. This was the color of the water after just a few passes with the scrub brush.  Then came the rinse cycle and way too many trips to the sink for fresh water. This is what this section looked like after it was scrubbed clean. Dan and I discussed the weathered wood recipes we had seen on Pinterest.  After some deliberation I decided to give it a t