Doing It All Over Again
September 10, 2008 By
I found out today that I will have to do the kitchen all over again. It would be the best way to stop the paint from chipping off now, and in the future. I won’t have to do the wainscotting I uncovered which I am thankful for. I will have to strip and sand the trim and anything else that had been painted blue. I am not looking forward to that.
I am looking forward to doing the Celebrate Effinhgam??Chili Cook Off again. I can’t believe it is next weekend. It came up on me so quickly. I have ordered my special spices, and I will have to shop for the meat??next week.?? We have put up the signs at various locations, and we hope to get atleast a couple more participants before the deadline.
Know Your Paint
September 6, 2008 By
I finally finished??the kitchen. It is??all painted and it??is beautiful. It??came out just like we wanted. Then I??found out that it was??oil paint underneath the latex I had just painted. I had sanded most surfaces, but when it gets wet, the paint just peels right off. It is very disappointing. I fear that most of it will have to be stripped or scraped off and then primed, and then repainted. After hours and hours of painting, I will have to start all over again. Sigh…
Winding Down
August 29, 2008 By
As the season here on the farm winds down, it gives us time to start projects that we were too busy for during the summer season. We decided to continue work on back dating the kitchen to the 1940′s. We had started in the spring by ripping out some unwanted cabinets, but we never got around to tearing out the rest of them. We ordered the wallpaper and paint. We will begin painting and papering tomorrow.
