In tearing out a cabinet to install the dishwasher, we discovered several paint colors our kitchen had once been:

Color Inspiration: strained peas and mac n’ cheese.
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Spring is here, people! That means I get to work on my windows!
My goal for the windows is to take them apart, reglaze them, refinish the wood, and put them back together better than ever.
Here I am with my first window to dismantle.

I took off the front stop and then the lower sash came right […]

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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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I’m very close to finishing my first paint stripping project. There were two wood doors in the basement of my house when I moved in. Both had several layers of paint. I never planned on putting these doors back up in my house so I decided to use them as practice pieces […]

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Today I started removing the paint from the woodwork in the front bedroom. With the heat gun the paint just LEAPED off the wood. I swear I heard it whimpering, “I surrender!” on its way to the floor.

After I removed the paint in the bedroom, I went downstairs to spray some paint […]

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