The project that seems like it's never going to end...Part 2

Let's see, where we last left off with this one was we had gotten the mirrors down and the wall repaired.  Next we took the trim off of the doors and drawers  so they didn't seem so dated. Then it was time to sand them down, which was really fast and easy with my handy hand sander that hubby got me (I love this thing and have thought about painting it pink LOL).



After the first sanding we then puddied all the cracks and dips in the wood which was a little harder then it looked because the wood is so dark. We had to run our hands over the wood several times to find all the spots.




Time to sand again, once those were done it was time to sand the base itself. At this point I highly suggest that you have some tack clothes around for the dust that gets everywhere when you sand, of course it would have been better if we could have done this out side but being attached to the wall makes that a bit difficult. After all the sanding was done it was time to prime everything and then start painting. Oh yeah clean out all the junk that is in there goodness how did that happen!

                                                                                                                  

 

The project that seems like it's never going to end....

As I have posted before I have been painting the paneling in my living room and man I am really starting to think this thing is taking over my life lol.  So we have been working on the wet bar area and man I really thought this would go a lot faster, but as know once you get going things come up.  The first thing we did was to take the trim off of all the doors and drawers which I feel was really dating the look of this area. With doing this it is already looking better.

Next it was time to tackle taking  down the 70's style mirrors and this was no small feat. Aft some research we decided to go with the wire/cut through glue method. So hubby climbed up and spent about two hours wiggling the wire back and forth behind the mirrors to cut through the glue that was holding them on. There were several times that we thought that they were going to break but I was thrilled and amazed that hubby got all three of them down without anything breaking.

With the mirrors off now there was the problem of the damage to the wall behind them. The mirrors had been put on with liquid nails of some sort, so it tore of parts of the sheet rock, and where we had to scrap glue off that meant we scrapped off the texture also.



After chatting with a friend about the best way to fix this we decided to just add the mud compound (after watering it down a bit) to the primer  paint and just roll it onto the wall with a fuzzy roller brush. We did about two coats of this mixture and it worked wonderfully and you can't tell that there had been so much damage to the wall.

I am exhausted again just posting about it gee sh.. I will post more to show the progress that we have made.

I have been a bad bad blogger

Hello everyone! I want to start out by saying I am really sorry for being away for so long things have been super crazy around here. We were dealing with all of the end of the year stuff with the kids, and many other things including dealing with a stroke my mother in law which I will get into in another post. I also have been working on a huge project that seems like it is never going to end.  It all started when I got a idea (you all know how dangerous these can be) and decided that I was going to paint the paneling in the living room. I had no idea how much primer it would soak up and how long it would take to just paint one section with the primer.  After over a month I am still working on getting the whole room painted, I didn't realize how big the living room was till now LOL.

So this is what I started with the paneling isn't too dark but with no real windows in the living room it makes the room much darker than I like. I went and looked for colors for several days and got several testers. When I found the colors I wanted I started priming and priming and priming some more. Let me tell you this is enough to discourage a girl.

Finally it looked like it wasn't going to soak in anymore and we were ready to start this thing. This wall alone took over a week between the priming and painting. Oh yeah and when I said there were no real windows, I do have these three windows and a door that lead into my sun room which is where we get our light form. I have lots more to go and on it and have more to share with different parts of the living room. I will be adding those in the next couple of days. I still have about half of the living room to prime and paint but I am really loving how it is turning out so far.

I also have several other projects to share in the coming weeks along with a fun surprise. I wanted to thank everyone of my followers for sticking it out with me  and promise to not be absent like this again.