As you can see we had a lot of great ideas. That's what fun about sketching it out. There's no dollar signs and the sky is the limits. Over time elements fell away for financial reasons or design reasons. The more I learned about the style and the history I was able to refine our plan. I planned for about a year. Researching and sketching out my ideas and working with Sean my husband on where to put the budget. I used Pinterest to help me find and organize my designs. https://www.pinterest.com/kranma/
The reno started slow and working through our weekend. We started with small project like scrapping paint. There was a lot of that. Because it was a rental there was several layers of paint on all the trim. Luckily the main living and dinning room remain unpainted.
(This is one of the upstair units.)
Just this would take a while weekend. One day scrapping and one day sanding. We would also patch the cracks in the plaster as we went.
Here you can see that not all the wood was sealed before painting. So it made if difficult when heat gunning. The paint would be like glue and had to be sanded down. This also bad it hard to stain because the pores of the wood were clogged. Even with pre-stain conditioner the stain still went on patchy in some spots. At that point you throw up your hand and call it "Character."
This door was sealed before it was painted so the paint came off fairly easy. It just tok a long time. With 3 of 4 layers of paint we had to be careful not to burn the wood. This would still need to be sanded, stained and resealed. But that's for another day....
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