Sunday, January 2, 2011

Painting Trim and Removing shelves

I worked on painting trim today in the master and spare bedrooms.

Martin removed some of the wallpaper in the bathroom (he's going to have to put some shellac on the wall where he scraped some of the top layer of the gypsum board off the wall.

Martin also labeled the cabinet doors (so that they can be reinstalled correctly after we finish painting them), and he also removed some of the cabinet doors. I painted the doors with the same paint as used on the trim, but we realized afterwards that we should be using high gloss paint (so we'll have to re-do it).

Regarding painting the cabinets, I googled some options, and it looks like we're going to sand, prime, and then paint.
http://homerenovations.about.com/od/kitchens/a/artpaintcabinet.htm
Katie painted some cabinets before we read this, so hopefully that will act as a primer.

Martin also worked on removing the shelves that were in the bedroom closest to the living room. We figured that the shelves weren't very useful, and the room would look better without them. Most of the shelves were easily removed; the exception were the vertical sections, which will have to be removed using an oscillating cutting tool (fortunately we gave one of those tools to Martin's Dad and Grandad for Christmas).

The walls aren't smooth in that room; they are painted wood paneling. Whenever the shelves were originally installed, silicone was used to fill the gap between the shelf and the wall. As a result, after the shelves were removed, Martin used the nail-removing part of the hammer to scrape the walls clean in those areas.

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