Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Layers

posted by K | filed under Bathrooms, Stripping | 2 Comments

This weekend, I discovered my paint-scraping muscles are out of shape. Why oh why didn’t I scrape the bathroom trim at the same time I was scraping the walls? It would’ve made so much more sense. Alas, at the time I was in denial and sick to death of scraping. I thought we could just [...]

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

My New Favorite Thing

posted by Kristin | filed under Stripping | 6 Comments

While stripping an Eastlake bed for the front bedroom this weekend, we called our neighbors D&K to suggest an outing to Miss Melissa’s for dinner later. When they heard we were “stripping,” they couldn’t hang up the phone fast enough and dashed right over to see what they could do to help. They were desparately [...]

My New Favorite Thing

posted by Kristin | filed under Stripping | 6 Comments

While stripping an Eastlake bed for the front bedroom this weekend, we called our neighbors D&K to suggest an outing to Miss Melissa’s for dinner later. When they heard we were “stripping,” they couldn’t hang up the phone fast enough and dashed right over to see what they could do to help. They were desparately [...]

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

I’m a Steel Magnolia Now

posted by K | filed under Stripping | 1 Comment

I tried out the denatured alcohol+steel wool+spray bottle+paper towels method recommended by The Always Wise and Wiley Greg, along with several other Esteemed Bloggers. I bought a combo pack of steel wool with three levels of roughness and tried each in succession. The scratchiest stuff worked the best, without scratching the wood. So how did [...]

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

There’s a (s)peck with an acorn pointed at me!

posted by K | filed under Stripping | 9 Comments

All last week we’d planned to decorate for Christmas on Saturday. But when the time came to put up the tree, we got distracted. It hit us simultaneously, I think, that once the tree was in the foyer, all work would stop on stripping the woodwork until well into next year. Somehow, without even speaking [...]

Wednesday, September 14th, 2005

Various Stages of Undress

posted by K | filed under Stripping | 3 Comments

I had a request for photos after yesterday’s post, and I assume she meant photos of the stripping progress – not my oozing burn. ;) So here ya go: Two of the four doorways are at this stage of nakedness. The other two are in various stages of undress.

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