Or, we started it last September, stripped the wallpaper, then realized we should be outside working on the landscaping while the weather was still nice. Skip to mid January. I finally hit my limit of having to dig through a box in order to find any of my books, and I was motivated once again. Only problem, of course, was time. By evening time I'm pooped and definitely not interested in painting or sanding on a project with no required completion date. So I fit the work in during the day, which means I work on it, like, 7 minutes every day. Needless to say, it's taken fooooooreeeeeeveeerrrrr.
- strip wallpaper
- steam and strip glue
- clean walls
- sand walls
- patch bajillion holes in walls, sand, clean again
- clean baseboards and built ins
- strip all trim with deglosser
- prime all trim, find holes and patch, sand, prime all trim again
- caulk baseboards and built ins
- prime walls
Still to do:
- patch holes in walls I missed earlier that I can see now that we have white paint up, sand, prime those spots again
- remove plantation shutters, patch all holes, sand
- prime window
- remove window pane inlay thing, prime, paint exterior color on one side and interior trim color on the other
- finish paint on all trim, two coats
- finish paint on walls, two coats
- degloss, prime, paint the built in cabinet doors and shelves (currently hanging out in the basement)
- poly two or three coats the built ins
- figure out how to temporarily salvage the 30 year-old carpet
- hire electrician to wire and install an overhead fixture
- order and install new plantation shutters
- furnish!
A couple in-process priming shots.
All primed!
Inching closer. Hopefully I'll have my books back by 2016. ;)
I agree, contrasted with the much-needed light paint, that ceiling is spectacular. The finished space will be gorgeous!
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