New Dining Room… Update w/pics, page 7

[purpledragonclaw]

Congratulations! Any progress made is reason to celebrate! 😉 What colors did you pick out?

[Jodi]

We are going with a light cream on the ceiling and a slightly darker cream on the walls. Trim and wainscotting will be two tones of brown to mimick wood, and to match the bookcase we bought.

The hubby started using a different type of paint remover, and it seems to work a bit better than the first stuff did. We’ll work on it more tonight, so I’ll find out then. I’m still working at a temp job, so the hubby’s been doing it all. Go, Hubby! 😆

[Starbreeze]

Sounds pretty!!! 😀

[Jodi]

Well, I worked on it a little, but I think we started scraping too early. We are going to let it sit until tomorrow and see what it’s like then. Hubby will have to do it though. I’m back to work.

Edit: We’ve noticed a few layers of paint there: gold, white (enamel-type paint), orange, grey, tan, pink. That’s what we’ve figured out so far. Six layers. No wonder we can’t see any detail on the trim.

[Jodi]

After trying to scrape multiple layers of paint from the wainscotting, we’ve decided to do only the sections of the dining room that will show (It’s hard!). There are at least 6 layers on here. Here are some pictures of the attempt.

Under the dark mauve, there’s a light pink, under that, red. Under that, gold, white, and some sort of dark brown. Then there’s varnish on the wood that gets really sticky with the paint remover and cakes up everything. I would personally chose to leave the varnish on, but the paint remover has other ideas.

[dragonmedley]

😯 OMG! That’s a lot of paint to strip…

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[Starbreeze]

Wow!!! I wonder what it originally looked like!!! 😯

[Jodi]

The hubby says that there are at least 12 layers of paint there. The green bubbly stuff is the paint stripper.

[Kristen]

That’s alot of paint… 😯 😯

[Maria]

What they said. It looks like tons of work.

[twindragonsmum]

😯 😯 Better you than me! 😯 😯 That’s a lot of work! It’ll look great when it’s done 😀 (I’m still stripping wallpaper 🙄 )

tdm

[Bob]

I’m sure it will be beautiful when you are done though

[Lokie]

Looks good so far 🙂 As well as looking like a lot of hard work. It’s been 1.5 years, and we are still renovating my mother’s kitchen, so I feel your pain. Can’t wait to see how it looks when you finish.

[darjeb]

Looks like all your hard work is coming along nicely

[Jodi]

I worked more on scraping the same spot in the pictures last night and found a few more layers… there’s a green and a dark brown in there too. I still need to put on at least one more coat of paint stripper before that section is done.

This is going to take forever! 😥

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