First is the dining room
Before:
The wall of paneling and a really badly done chair rail...
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and the really leaky windows
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The trim doesn't look that bad but up close it was a mess. There was paint all over the edges and they had about a million little nail holes.
Finished
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New windows and repaired trim. I don't think the picture came out very well though. The trim doesn't look as red in real life. (BTW our dining room is really the workout room)
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And the doorway that will eventually have pocket doors reinstalled into them
These pictures in general are pretty crappy but I don't like showing my half completed work.
Now the staircase.
It seems like I never took before pictures which is too bad because it was hideous. They were encased in carpet that was nastier than any hotel carpet I have ever seen. 2 years ago we ripped the carpet up and I spent the summer carefully stripping each piece of wood. I know that people often will take the whole staircase apart and get each pieced dipped, but I was afraid that all the pieces would never go back together and we would forever be accessing the upstairs through use of a ladder. So I went the slow way. Anyway we have been living with a half done staircase for the last 2 years so I have decided that it is going to be finished this year. Maybe even this month.
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It's hard to see the difference between the undone and the done parts in this picture.
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The top landing...with every door trim freshly stained and polyurethaned.
1 comment:
I feel your pain! I've been going through all the moldings in our 1917 Bungalow since we moved in, in 2004.
Looks great, keep up the great work!
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