for a couple of days this week you might have noticed our blog was just a blank white page. what did it symbolize? complete neglect! not really,.. but we’re back!
mathew paint stripped most of the trim in the kitchen in one day. (left) door, window and chair rail trim. (right) i’m not sure what he’s trying to capture in this photo of the door trim, maybe how thick it is with almost 100 years of paint?
sometimes we wonder why we go to the effort of stripping the paint just to paint it white again. but it does make a difference especially when we fill all the cracks, dents and holes. afterwards the trim looks crisp and new again.
my parents sanding a door that will be stained and polyurethaned. these doors used to be white and become a rich reddish brown. very noticeably different!
mathew stripping the window frame and i take over so he can work on other projects…
…like making this wall above the kitchen cabinets pretty again! there’s new plaster above the kitchen entrance as well.
my parents again (left) filling, gluing and sanding, the same door? a different door? my dad says they’re smiling underneath their masks. (right) finally released from the garage, more sanding for my parents…
(left) for some reason the kitchen window sill and frame had been abused beyond recognition. we think the previous owners cut part of it to fit their refrigerator in. nice. but we can’t guess why the front edge looks like it suffered from years of gnawing. as far as we know there were no pets in this house, but there were 5 kids… (right) after filling, sanding and replacing a corner piece we’re bringing this window sill back to life. once it’s painted you may never know its past life.
another effort in our environmentally conscious remodel: resizing closet doors to fit the new smaller opening. yes, they’re cheap, (ugly?) hollow-core doors but with a little of mathew’s time they are resized. money is saved and nothing ends up in landfill.