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Floyd and I looked at the drywall in the sun room yesterday.  It was damaged at the top and just didn’t match the rest of the room.  What’s more, it was yellow! “Just pull it off then,” Floyd said.  So we did.  I got four new panels the same as yesterday’s.  All the painted paneling and drywall will return to oak paneling.  I spent yesterday staining them, and today they are polyurethaned.  (Yes, I’m aware that polyurethane is not a verb.)

attempt at removing old yellow paint from oak paneling (took bloody forever):

yesterday’s paneling:

pulling off old painted paneling:

insulating while there’s a chance to do so:

today’s urethaning:

The worst window for stripping green paint is done.  It took Floyd and I a while and lots of TLC to get this one done.  The trim wasn’t bad – the same as other trim – but the window frame itself is from 1911, and the green was embedded heavily in the wood.  There is still a little green remaining.  Call it character.

The other side of it facing the kitchen sink is still painted white.  It matches one other window in the kitchen.

We also ran an old 2×4 through the table saw and created some quarter-round trim.  It’s not perfect, but it looks nice.

Shane and I completed the knock-down wall surfacing last night. In case you have never heard of this, knock-down texture is spackling texture with a flattened surface.

This is what it looks like before paint.

The urethane is almost done. Now the paint begins.

Shane decided a skim coat was needed for the dining room and kitchen before the texture is applied. Once it’s dried, he’ll come in with his sprayer and apply the textured coat, smooth it, and sand it. After that, I’ll paint.

Floyd and I have been working on the window frames, stripping the paint, sanding, filling holes (with the right colour), and urethaning. I’d say they look good and match the rest of the window frames.

Nearing the finish line for interior work.

And the scraping continues, this time on the second floor in the middle bedroom. The baseboards are all painted white, but they’re nearly impossible to remove without damage, so they’ll have to remain white. We’ve taken the trim boards off of the closet and ran them through the new planer and quarter them with polyurethane (yesterday).  They look good, but now I’ve got to scrape the window frames as well. Dang. All under days work.

We came up with a plan for the living room / dining room opening.  We replaced the framing with 2x6s.  We bought some 2x6s from Lealta and ripped a sliver of wood off.  I’ll sand, stain, and polyurethane them.  They’ll be used as trim rather than adding 1x6s.  I still need to fasten them.  I’ll show you when I’m done.

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So more of the baseboards in the living room are complete.  I think they look good.  Maybe not as good as the original hardwood might have been when the house was new, but they were cracked, chipped, painted many different colours, and missing pieces.

The baseboard 1x8s are ready now – routered, stained, and urethaned, so we put them up.  Because the floor is not really level across about 24 feet (7.3m), there were adjustments needed.  It turned out to be easiest to cut them into specific lengths to match the straight parts of the floor.

The rear deck post is fixed now, too.

Floyd and I completed the kitchen floor today. I think it looks really good.

There were some pieces that needed to be cut into odd shapes, but most were simply laid down as-is.

Next: complete the rear entry / laundry room.