Whew!! It has been busy around here :0) I have been up to my eyeballs in furniture stripper, sanding, and painting! I have gotten a lot done, but I am exhausted. I found an awesome solid maple table and six Windsor chairs on Craig's List a couple of weeks ago and was finally ready to get started on refinishing it. I had to get my courage up since the chairs and the table legs had been painted with a very heavy hand in a horrible flesh colored paint. Little did I know that the same "heavy hand" had applied not just one color, but three different colors to them. Underneath the fleshy tan was white, then a very vivid blue......what were they thinking?! This was not going to be one of those happy accidents you stumble across during the sanding process. This was going to be a lot of hard work. After sanding some of the top layer off I applied the stripper and waited for it to do it's job. Apparently the stripper didn't get the memo that it had a job to do. I had to scrape, and scrape, and scrape some more, and apply new layers of chemical, and scrub that with steel wool. And finally I got most(not all by any means)of the paint off.
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| After stripper but before sanding |
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The chair on the right is still sporting the skin colored paint. Yuck!
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After sanding and painting but before distressing and waxing
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I will share the finished product hopefully tomorrow. For now I am going to bed and not stripping any furniture for a while! See you soon!
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