I’ll never buy an old house again
March 30, 2008Unless, maybe, I win the lottery and can pay someone else to do all the renovations.
This is what I started with Saturday morning:
Six coats of stripper later, I was about this far:
Someone had the door frames painted TURQUOISE. Must have been the fifties.
This is the one I got farthest on after two days of stripping and scraping and sweating:
And this is how hot I looked doing it:
Damn lead paint. After two days, there’s barely a dent in the seventy eight years worth of paint on two door frames. Still got a third, a door, and all the trim to do. Shoot me.
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Been there, done that, gonna do it again. I feel your pain. My house is 66 years old. Bless you!
You are a true East Nashvillian. Four houses and 12 years into the neighborhood, I’m still not. Probably because I had a neighbor across the street from my first house who did exactly what you’re doing, and it scared the fool out of me.
Bless you, and I can’t wait to see the final result!!
Yeah, I’m just about to add another layer to the many coats of paint here. I just don’t love it enough or hate myself enough to do any stripping.
My old house in Memphis was built in 1948. I discovered through some sleuthing that at one time, the trim and walls in most rooms were either turquoise or Pepto Bismol pink. Sometimes I look at the dull ivy green of my office and bedroom and wonder if people will get the same ill feelings from it that I do from that horrid pink. I think not. And the trim is off-white.
Bless your heart.
Totally hot.
I spent the weekend throwing another coat of paint on the trim in the master bedroom of our 100 year old house. The thought didn’t even occur to me to strip it first; just painting took 10-12 hours.
You look adorable in the mask!
For rizzle, don’t sand that stuff.
And don’t, don’t, don’t let the wee god children into the place until you’ve had a chance to mop DON’T sweep.
Sweeping lead dust is bad mmmmkay?
Hate to sound like a douche, but me knows a thing or two about lead poisoning.
That outfit is hot…
No, I mean you must be warm in there….
LOL
I thought that mask was some sort of BSG fan get-up.