YAY DALE!!! Keep on shockin' 'em! :)

I can say with complete sincerity: Paint Stripping.

This was a skill I knew nothing about. . . until I decided to paint a dark color onto existing trim in a room. There was so much paint, varnish, polyurithane and oils on the trim- that the paint wouldn't stick to it at all-even after sanding. So I decided to strip it down to bare wood.

1 month later. . .


Seriously, I tried every paint stripper on the market, and heat guns, everything for all the moldings and trim in the whole room, and ended up refinishing the floor while I had all the crap in my house. I ended up finding out that under 7 coats of paint, 2 coats of varnish and 2 top coats of polyurithane the trim work was actually solid oak. So I stained it the dark color I had wanted to paint in the first place, and it looks AWESOME!

So, I can strip anything now, I'm not afraid of old paint. :)

~smile~
Meredith

P.S. This project is now the reason I'm not allowed to start stuff in the apartment without telling my boyfriend first. The room was seriously torn up for almost 2 months.