More Painting Fun

Over the past weekend I decided to work on the banisters. They were painted the same tan as everything else. Originally I was just going to prime and paint them white. Well the tan paint was peeling off. I admit, the daughter and I had fun peeling parts of it off. Who doesn't have fun peeling off paint? Unfortunately it was just peeling off in strips here and there. So I figured I'd take some paint stripper and remove all the paint.


I am a huge fan of those home shows where they make the house all nice and pretty in two days for like a thousand bucks or something. They make it look sooooooo easy. Handy-man I am not. I put the stripper on the paint and waited about a half hour for it to work just like the directions said. Then I tried scraping it off. That sucked! Majorly! It was like trying to scrape off gum. Fresh, thin spread gum.




I worked on the banisters for about 3 hours and only got a small portion done. It was night time and I had to leave the doors open so I wouldn't kill myself with the fumes. I'm a big scaredy cat so when I heard some crazy scream outside I considered myself done. Either I close the door and die from fume poisoning (?) or leave it open and chance being attacked by some pyscho.

A few days later, after I grumbled to the husband how hard it was, he took the heat gun he was using to scrape the linoleum paper backings off the floor and used it on the paint. He called me over and showed me. What took me a half hour to scrape, he did in 10 seconds using the heat gun.

Hmpf.

I painted the door back to white. I've also painted the baseboards and door trim white, well, "Pot of Cream" to be more exact. That was a huge pain in the ass. Sanding, cleaning, priming, then two coats of paint. It was all the cutting in that took a long time. My back hurts just remembering it. Every time I take a look at front door pictures I just think how awful that tile looks in front of the door. Hmmm.