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A Work in Progress - Second Floor - Hall

Alright... so I decided to start working on the hall this winter...  These pictures were taken March 19, 2008, as I had been working on removing the paint from the wood trim.  As you can see, I need to replace the trim missing from the front bedroom.  This door had been removed and the two bedrooms combined into one.  For five years we've had the door back, but now it is time for me to work on replacing the Oak around the door, and make it look as nice as the other doors.  There are seven doors in this room, which acts as the landing between floors (accounting for two of the doors), as well as three bedrooms, the office, and the bathroom.

Notice the fancy windows & trim above the door from downstairs.

Of the seven doors in this room, six of them need to have paint stripped & then get stained...  A job for later.  Also, the radiator in this room could stand to be stripped and repainted, also allowing me to paint the wall and refinish the baseboard behind it.

May 2 - I've begun staining the doorway trim and hope to get into varnishing it this weekend.  I only work on it for a couple of hours a day, so will see how far I can get this weekend.  I've removed the doors from both stairs to allow me to get into the doorway, all the other doors open into the room so they aren't as much of a problem.

As of here, I've made it around the doorways to the Sponge Bob room.  I'm using Red Oak stain, as that is the closest to the color of the door at the top of the stairs, the only thing in this room that was left unpainted.

June 14 - Now I am ready to re-do the baseboard behind the radiator, so Kyle and I moved it off to the side of the room to get it out of the way.  It's mid-June so I didn't think I would need heat any time soon, however for several days after this it was quite chilly at night.

Behind the radiator is the only part of the room that looks as it probably did 100 years ago, with the original wallpaper and baseboard.  Not very attractive.  The wallpaper seems to show soot stains, possibly again from when the house across the street burned some number of years ago.  I've found the remnants of that in several other places in this house.

In July I painted the walls...  Coral Cream by Behrs.  (That's here in case I forget someday and have to match up the paint...)  It's a sorta light pink, off peach color.  Everyone says my house is pink outside, where I like to call it peach.  It's somewhere in that area.  So, by painting the hall this color, I can sorta do the same thing inside.  The big difference is that it is semi-gloss, where before it was a very light, flat peach.  It really brightens up the room.

The trim around the formerly missing (removed) door is now completely replaced and stained.  The side pieces I had laying around, but I had to steal the piece across the top from inside the bathroom.  The bathroom will need to be remodeled someday anyway, and the trim in that room is pretty chopped up.

So now I have gotten the radiator completely sandblasted (thanks Chris!) and back home.  Today (8/13/08) I put a coat of primer on it, and shortly will paint it white again.  Before reinstalling I have to decide if I want to touch up the floor, and also if I want to repair or replace the valve that controls water flow to the radiator.  I'll have to go downtown to the antique stores and see what I can find.  Those valves are expensive, and also fall is coming soon.

Believe it, or not... but I unloaded it from the back of my van myself.  Well, me, a 2x4, a couple of broken chairs with the 2x10 on it, and I was able to leverage it up and walk it out the back of the van onto the chairs so that it could be primed.  No way I am getting it down from there and in the house by myself.

Today (9/9/2008) I reinstalled the radiator.  It's bright white and shiny new.

I pondered replacing the valve, but in the interest of time and colder weather coming, decided that it wasn't really necessary, at least not right now.  I cleaned up the brass & stainless steel nuts.  The part of the valve where the handle attaches is broken, I have determined.  But, as this is radiator is in the main room (center of the floor), I shouldn't need to turn it off.

Essentially, I am all done with this room.  Technically, the only thing left that I plan

(or would like) to do is to strip the paint from the remaining doors and finish them.

In the picture below, the newly finished (been a few weeks now...) molding near

the ceiling is now installed.

Here is the door at the top of the stairs, which is what I used to key off of for the color of the rest of the trim.

This door needs a little TLC yet to replace a couple missing pieces of molding & clean it up.

Below is the one door that I did refinish, as I had to remove it anyway to replace the door trim with oak.

A view toward four doors, the door from downstairs, the door to upstairs (small sliver),

the bathroom, and the bedroom known as the Sponge Bob room.

This room has a total of seven doors, one that has been refinished, one at the top of the stairs that wasn't painted,

leaving five more doors that need one side stripped (2) or both sides stripped (3) and refinished.

But the doors are another project, so I consider this project done.

October 18, 2008