Yep, What you see here is two pine boards that have been butt jointed end to end with a piece of walnut between them. When you DIY you can do whatever you like and this is how you celebrate a limitation.

These determined homeowners have self built their basement and they've really done it right. They've done much of the work themselves, but respected the limits of their skills and hired Tacoma Moss Boss along the way for consulting and skilled craft along the way. This balustrade retrofit to the...

Under the stairs was still pretty ugly after drywall so we used offcuts of hemlock trim and extra plywood from the ceiling to make an access panel that matches.