My arms were really sore from my yoga class this week so I didn’t so a lot of “up high” work in the front bedroom, though I did heat gun off some more paint from the window frames.  They’re pretty much ready for a coat of Citri-Strip to take off the varnish that’s left.  I […]

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I forgot to upload these photos yesterday. Here are some more pictures of my windows in the front bedroom as I’m removing them.
One thing I learned is that because I need to break the stops between the sashes to get them out, I need to access them from the side. Luckily, there are […]

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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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