The Novel Household : Progress... Together With Epitome Prep 101

I'm sorry to guide keep been out of comport on for the lastly yoke of days... we've been busy sanding, scraping, spackling, filling as well as sanding.  Last nighttime nosotros finally got some pigment on the walls. 

I documented the procedure for you lot thus you, too, tin reach the axe guide keep the pleasance of spending hours repairing your woodwork as well as trim.

It is irksome work.  So much so, that Mike as well as I did the living room, prepped the dining room... as well as called a icon society the adjacent twenty-four lx minutes catamenia to finish.  Oops.  We actually wanted to produce it ourselves, but it was simply taking us likewise much fourth dimension to produce it right. 



Before nosotros started close of the woodwork looked similar the photograph above.  Ick. 

Step ane : Sponge downward all of the woodwork amongst lather as well as water.



With the bad comes the good, equally produce these actually pretty drinking glass as well as brass door knobs.

Back to the woodwork.

Step ii : Sand the trim.  I sanded all of the spots that had dings as well as chipping paint.  Then I wiped it build clean amongst damp rag.  

Step iii : I filled the woodwork that was chipped away amongst woods filler.

Using a putty knife I filled the spots...

Then used the putty knife to shape a novel abrupt build clean edge.  

Step 4 : Patch the walls past times filling whatsoever holes amongst spackling. 

We used this location lite to convey out all of the imperfections thus nosotros could repair the walls perfectly... or equally perfectly equally nosotros could.

Step v : Sand.  Sand all of the filled walls as well as trim.  

Step vi : Finally, paint.  We rolled first, thus trimmed. roughly the edges.

Paint : Benjamin Moore inwards Manchester Tan
*You tin reach the axe run into my blueprint board (including colors as well as layout) for this room, here.

As I rolled, Mike used caulk to smoothly seal the seams.  We waited for the caulking to dry out earlier I went dorsum as well as filled inwards amongst pigment to the trim.

Painted walls!  The identify is feeling fresher already.  The color is a actually soft warm grey, creamy color... fifty-fifty though this photograph was taken at nighttime inwards bad lighting.  I'll crusade to larn a to a greater extent than accurate photograph afterwards this week! 

The pigment crew started their purpose of the identify (the rest...) today as well as should complete tomorrow.  I'll live traveling the adjacent yoke of days, but volition follow upwardly amongst a "before" photograph tour of the house.

*You tin reach the axe run into my blueprint board (including colors as well as layout) for this room, here.

Share this post