14 May 2020
Amy has been staying home a lot more these days. She dove in to the parlor and is making a lot of progress.
After moving everything out of the room, we started scraping all the loose paint off. In the process of scraping the paint off, we found two shades of white, two shades of gray, and a sort of mustard color. It's a little hard to tell exactly what order these colors were done in because removing the paint with a carbide scraper is not exactly a delicate process. We are pretty sure we will repaint the room with something similar to one of those old colors. The green on the right is on some other bead board we used to patch the wall where they had put a bathroom door in back in the 1910's.
Amy is starting to prime the ceiling and walls. She has already stripped the shellac off of the wainscoting and sanded the polyurethane off of the floor.
The walls and ceiling are primed and ready for paint!
And the color we chose is the mustard shade. Empire Gold according to the Sherwin Williams historic colors collection.
While Amy has been in the parlor, I have been working on the closet in the study. When we bought the house, this closet was home to a defunct oil burning furnace and, seen at the upper left, a large box set into the wall of the living room to hold a television set.
I had removed all that stuff around 3 years ago. 2 years ago I used the left side of the closet to run some water supply pipes and a drain for the upstairs master bathroom. This week I finally got to refinish it and made it our little technology closet. I don't normally like to leave wires so messy, but I've already spent 3 and half days on this. It can be a nice rainy day project for later.
The cue for the green/aqua color came from an old paint color we found on the walls in what used to be the utility closet, where our half bath is now on the first floor. Amy is totally fine with it, as long as the closet door is closed. The wires going into the wall go to the TV we have in the living room now.
Flat screen, plus old picture frame, minus wires, equals a nicely camouflaged TV.
Amy has been staying home a lot more these days. She dove in to the parlor and is making a lot of progress.
After moving everything out of the room, we started scraping all the loose paint off. In the process of scraping the paint off, we found two shades of white, two shades of gray, and a sort of mustard color. It's a little hard to tell exactly what order these colors were done in because removing the paint with a carbide scraper is not exactly a delicate process. We are pretty sure we will repaint the room with something similar to one of those old colors. The green on the right is on some other bead board we used to patch the wall where they had put a bathroom door in back in the 1910's.
Amy is starting to prime the ceiling and walls. She has already stripped the shellac off of the wainscoting and sanded the polyurethane off of the floor.
The walls and ceiling are primed and ready for paint!
And the color we chose is the mustard shade. Empire Gold according to the Sherwin Williams historic colors collection.
While Amy has been in the parlor, I have been working on the closet in the study. When we bought the house, this closet was home to a defunct oil burning furnace and, seen at the upper left, a large box set into the wall of the living room to hold a television set.
I had removed all that stuff around 3 years ago. 2 years ago I used the left side of the closet to run some water supply pipes and a drain for the upstairs master bathroom. This week I finally got to refinish it and made it our little technology closet. I don't normally like to leave wires so messy, but I've already spent 3 and half days on this. It can be a nice rainy day project for later.
The cue for the green/aqua color came from an old paint color we found on the walls in what used to be the utility closet, where our half bath is now on the first floor. Amy is totally fine with it, as long as the closet door is closed. The wires going into the wall go to the TV we have in the living room now.
Flat screen, plus old picture frame, minus wires, equals a nicely camouflaged TV.
It is fun to see the progress on your house - many thanks for the update!
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