When we left off last time, our living room and dining room looked like this:

On Saturday, it looked like this!

Actually, that picture is from after I’d cleaned up after the party a bit. But you get the idea.
Friday night Brandon put up the last of the wallpaper border in the dining room.

I’m very pleased […]

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Here’s where we were on Tuesday night. Party’s on Saturday. Can we do it?

I think we can.
We’ve made some good progress on the dining room. Here’s how the dining room windows looked mid-chemical strip:

And with chemical stripping done, waiting for wood filler to dry so I can sand it.

The rest of the woodwork in the […]

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The paint’s all up and I’m working on stripping the paint off the woodwork in the dining room!
Pictures!

Oh yeah, and I accidentally touched the metal tip of the heat gun to my arm as I was reaching for the paint chip bucket. I burned my arm, but it will be fine.

More to come! […]

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This weekend I stripped another door.

Today I put another coat of polyurethane on the test door. It’s looking so cool!
Then I worked the rest of the night on the front bedroom. No pictures yet because darn it, after all that work it doesn’t look like I did much. But I kept heat […]

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Last night while I was stripping paint in the basement I really wanted some music, but I was out of electrical outlets. (Which got me writing down a few more things I’d like to have done when we do any more electrical upgrading.) Brandon came up with the brilliant idea to run an […]

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