Look what I found! Last summer, Denver Historic hosted a tour of Hilltop Mid-Mod houses. We were in a bit of a rush with a cranky and sleepy toddler…and we had just started remodeling our house. I already did blog posts of the other three houses that we saw on the tour. But, I forgot [...]
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I’ve been short on the posts lately, but we’ve been deep in the remodel. Here’s what we have going on this week. Stripping hell continues. I seriously think I am paying penance for property damage I must have inflicted in a previous life. The back of the house has been completely ripped out & is [...]
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I swore I’d never do mass stripping after our kitchen remodel in San Francisco. Never say never! I am the stripping queen these days. I’ve been working on the solid mahogany trim that is around the windows, door frames and closets. I used CitriStrip and Soy Gel to remove the white paint. But, there is [...]
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Stripping hell continues. Let’s review what we are stripping in our little house. 1. All of the Doug Fir beams – like 30 feet long and maybe 20 of them. 2. All of the mahogany trim and wood around the house. Yes, idiots covered it all in paint. 3. Concrete Block inside and outside the [...]
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Back in February, we started doing some testing of the stripping process. Since every last drop of the wood in our house is painted, we have a lot of work to do. We tested sanders, very toxic strippers, non-toxic strippers, etc. I wrote about our testing here. I got a great comment and tip from [...]
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We are officially INSANE! We did a very tiny test a few weeks ago on our interior concrete block. It is all painted (in poop color, no less) and Tim is desperate to see it in it’s natural, unpainted state. Do you know how hard it is to scrape paint from all the nooks and [...]
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I got a great tip today for stripping our beams. It might give us a less painful option for removing all of the heinous white paint! Troy at Kingswood Redo sent me a link to a really website that documents the history and remodel of an Eichler in San Mateo, CA. It’s done as a [...]
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While our architect is busy working on our remodel plans, Tim and I have been busy starting on projects in the existing house. As I explained in earlier posts, we have many wood walls, wood beams, wood frames around every window and door and wood kitchen cabinets…ALL covered up with layers of paint. Tim and [...]
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