We made some progress on the stairs this past weekend but with the holiday not quite as much as I'd hoped. The walls in the stairway are all cleaned off and Chris was able to get a good start on the ceiling. As for me I've been stripping trim in the kitchen. Previously I was focusing on finishing up the baseboards but I decided to switch gears for awhile and get a whole doorway completed. I have the dining room door sitting in the basment on sawhorses as I write this... it's been down there for about umm 6 weeks now. I haven't had the time or motivation to finish up the sanding on it.
Anyways on to the progress.
Saturday:
Monday - 1 hour:
Wednesday - 1 hour:
While I was spending all that time up close and personal with the door I discovered that the decorative trim piece on this door isn't one piece it is actually 4 separate pieces glued together so the top molding on this door is going to be taken down and repaired before it is stripped.
I had a little different task to take care of on Friday. Our upstairs bathroom shower has a curved ceiling so it is a bit challenging to fit a shower curtain properly. Prior to this we just cut off the bottom of the curtain to shorten it and then doubled up a couple of the loops which worked out okay, but half of the curtain dragged on the floor while the other half fit beautifully. So I decided to cut one to fit the curve and this is what we came up with.
It's a bit hard to appreciate with just the liner but I'm hoping to get a new outer curtain this weekend on which I can demonstrate my technique.
3 comments:
How are you stripping the trim? With goo, a heat gun, or just good old arm strength? I'm planning to start stripping my stairwell, so I'm asking anyone for stripping advice. :)
First I'm using a heat gun, then I switch to goo to clean up the stubborn bits.
I finally got around to reading the rest of your site. Very exciting. You definitely have a lot of projects going on concurrently, but just think about the beautiful kitchen you will have when you are done. Plus all the other improvements! I wish I could do my kitchen. It's so gross it drives me crazy. I wish we could afford to work on ours...
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