We took some time off for the holidays, and then it was time to play “trading spaces” with Jona.
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January 2007
Monthly Archive
Mon 1 Jan 2007
Sun 7 Jan 2007
As you can see, we tried many mixes of stain to get the wood color just right.
And in the end, we decided our perfect wood trim color is ….
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Sun 7 Jan 2007
Ahh…Saturday morning. Time to start up on the master bedroom again after a two week hiatus. One of the weekends we were busy visiting family for the holidays. The second, we were working on our friend’s condo. I mixed some stains and tested them on the back of a wood trim. Tig was cleaning and stripping the paint off the base trim with his newly built Infrared Paint Remover.
Several hours later, we were not satisfied with the wood stains. The trim in the bedroom was not of high quality. The grain was wildly different from one piece to the next. The stains only magnified it. Noon rolled around, I looked out the window. Sunshine, clear skies, temperatures of 70 degrees.
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Wed 10 Jan 2007
You may have wondered from a previous post, what the heck is that? Well, it’s an IPR. What’s that, eh? An infrared paint remover.
People have been trying to devise ways to safely remove paint for years. There’s always the nasty chemicals that do a pretty good job, but they’re nasty chemicals for a reason.
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Mon 15 Jan 2007
Trading Spaces: A Tour of Our Handiwork
Posted by serena under Miscellaneous , Painting[3] Comments
A quick visual tour of our New Years work trip to DC. This is the space above Jona’s kitchen. Continue reading “Trading Spaces: A Tour of Our Handiwork” »
Mon 15 Jan 2007
We’ve painted with a variety of different manufacturer’s paints. Behr, Benjamin Moore, Pratt & Lambert, Devine, and Farrow & Ball.
Here’s a quick rundown and review of each:
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Tue 16 Jan 2007
The Neverending Bedroom Saga … Finally Ends
Posted by tig under Home Renovation , Painting , Bedroom[3] Comments
I posted about a month ago some of the problems we’ve had with the master bedroom.
So yes, it would be cool if all the trim were bare wood (no paint) and just finished with a nice stain or oil.
Since that realization, we stripped over 95% of the paint off the “difficult trim” (all around doors and windows) and stripped about 40% off the baseboards.
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Tue 16 Jan 2007
Wed 17 Jan 2007
Let’s face it. Plaster sucks. Some people may think horsehair plaster is sacrosanct, and all the fervent restoration folks will want to kill me for saying it. But I just don’t like the stuff. It’s really dusty and flaky, and a pain in the butt to fix. Originally made of lime, horse hair, and gypsum, it was used extensively throughout our house. Drywall and joint compound is much easier to work with. And much easier to sand, since they make “easy sand” versions of joint compound.
Our bedroom ceiling had a fairly large crack in the ceiling.
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Wed 17 Jan 2007
The Excorcism of Ghost Plates
Posted by serena under Home Renovation , Painting , Bedroom , Best Of , Before & After1 Comment
Pictures of the grueling and often ugly process.
Before - the plates sneered at us from the safety of the previous owner’s protection.
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