Another vote for wallpaper before ceiling. Why give yourself the extra work of trimming the ends and removing paste from the grids?

I'll cut a screw tip off with an angle grinder if the length is worrisome. And it's maple so a pilot hole is needed.

Do you have hole saws? I'd be inclined to make a bushing out of a piece of 1x4. As long as there are no leaks it will work fine.

I've seen 4" recommended for cars and 5" for heavier vehicles. Obviously other factors go into the design and the local construction companies know what works for the area. When you had it done was that the only option or could you have gone thinner?

That looks to be 2" thick. You should have 4" for cars.

Hold on. Last time I bought wire shelves by the foot they had a bolt cutter in the department. Had to because it was by the foot.

Hacksaw and patience. Or angle grinder and glasses.

Yup, stain first. Are you putting poly on? If so that's usually two coats which means a light sand in between coats because the first coat raises the grain. Don't know about you but that's four steps I'd rather do bent over sawhorses than on a ladder arms overhead.

This hysteria has been happening since the Blizzard of 1978. The TV stations stoke the hysteria because it boosts their ratings which translates to more eyes on their content which means more market share which means more earnings.

Totally unnecessary fear mongering. But you'll never see them being honest if it means they might lose viewers.

Agree with the advice you have so far. You don't give dimensions but that angled cut is definitely going to be more than a 10" blade can give you. Maybe the short cut that joins it is possible with a 10"? I've built jigs for this kind of cut before. You need a solid one to hold a stair tread firmly and vertical.

I see no problem with finishing the cut with a jigsaw with a fresh blade and then taking a wide chisel to clean it up.

If you watch woodworking videos you'll see that no matter how well equipped someone's shop is, they're always pulling out a chisel to clean up a mortise, shoulder cut, or whatever. Chisel skills put you at the next level woodworking wise.

Think of the people you went to high school with. How many of them paid attention in geography? How many were there only because they had to be? How many spouted the "I'll never use this info after I graduate" line? And Rhode Island isn't exactly a headline grabbing place either so it's below the radar for lots of folks. It's not a freak show like Florida or a shootout a month like Texas.

Depends on what you mean by familiar. A lot of people place it in New England but don't know where New England begins. Does it include Connecticut? Long Island? You have to remember that some people are map illiterate.

Puget Sound has 35 islands so that's not too unreasonable. And here's an interesting coincidence. The Seattle Sounders soccer club has "Providence" on its jerseys. It's a non-profit health company in the Pacific Northwest. I was once asked if I was from Oregon when I said I hailed from Providence.

People make weird associations sometimes.

Don't forget Me, Myself, and Irene.

On the fence about 1%?

Pizza Strips are good if you get them from the right Italian bakery. Not pizza at all though. It's a good focaccia type crust with a tangy red sauce. You can taste the olive oil on the slightly crunchy crust. My nephews live in upstate New York and when they come to visit Rhode Island they buy boxes of strips to take home and bring to school to sell to their classmates. The kids in New York are wild over them which is saying something because New York has decent pizza. After holidays their friends approach them to find out if they visited Rhode Island so they can get to the strips before they're gone.

The caveat is that there are some absolutely dreadful examples of pizza strips in Rhode Island. You have to find the right bakery or don't bother.

This looks pretty smooth. Why cover it? If you don't like the look you can power wash it. If there are high or low pavers you can pry them out and re-level with brick sand and a rubber mallet.

The other advantage of pavers on a sand bed is that the water drains through them. On solid concrete you have to take care to slope the path slightly away from the house or you get standing water.

Putting concrete over that is not DIY in my opinion, and what you mentioned about a thin mix sound wrong. If the concrete is flowing there's too much water in it and the result will be weak concrete. I'm not a concrete contractor so that could be wrong, but the times I've used it the mix was like peanut butter and had to be shoveled, screeded and troweled in to place. Not easy.

Good comments here already. Don't cheap out on taping knives. Get 4", 6", and 8" knives from Harbor Freight. It's much easier to get smooth surfaces and feathers when the knife is the right width.

If the beam has been sized to span from the post next to the refrigerator to the post coming out of the countertop and those posts are sized correctly with load transfer to the floor below then it doesn't matter. I can't tell the beam dimensions from this picture.

You can't tell from the picture. Is a double 2x4 a structural post in some situations? Sure. Is it in this situation? No way of telling from the information presented.

Never had a homemade version but Ikea's is pretty good if you ask me. Reasonably priced too. If it wasn't an hour drive from my house I'd eat there more often.