Renovations

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

A few years ago, I purchased my house. It's a smaller house: 672 ft². The previous owner was great at starting projects, but not finishing them. For example, the bedroom and living room both had only part of the floor installed. I ended up installing the rest. So, since I bought it, I've been working, with one year off due to some injuries. This year, my plan was trim around the doors.

Here is how it was when I moved in. There were 2 doors to the bedroom (yes, really) and the rug in the bedroom is because that was the part of the floor that had not been installed.


I walled up one of the bedroom doors.


After painting the bedroom I knew that the brown paint showed throw paint, so I primed first.


Look what a difference painting the wall and ceiling made.


This is what I've been living with.


Even painting the doors and putting  a new (old fashioned) doorknob on the bedroom door made a world of difference.


And the completed project. I'll be doing baseboard in October. But, it's amazing how different all the different rooms feel with trim!

[Dave]

Good feeling when it all works!

[Recusant]

"Fresh paint: the smell of progress."  Good stuff, Waski_the_Squirrel.

[Tank]

Very satisfying  results. 

[OldGit]

Good work, Waski!

[joeactor]

As one who has been through a lot of remodels, I applaud your hard work!

Looks very nice ;-)

[xSilverPhinx]

Looks good, Waski!

[xSilverPhinx]

"Fresh paint: the smell of progress." 

Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!

[hermes2015]

"Fresh paint: the smell of progress." 

Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!

I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

"Fresh paint: the smell of progress." 

Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!

I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.

I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.

In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.

[hermes2015]

"Fresh paint: the smell of progress." 

Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!

I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.

I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.

In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.

It is mid-winter here, but the days are not too cold: around 14 degrees C. I remember using polyurethane sealer in the old days before it got banned. That was really terribly overpowering.
The apartment is 160 square meters, so it is easy for me to move things around.

[Dave]

I tried a "low volatiles", basically water emulsion based, psint on a door.

Problem was things went wrong and it needed to be sanded down and redone. Ah, that paint does not sand nicely, got even rougher. Needed to strip it and start from scratch.

Oh! Paint stripper (all designed for oil based paints) does not even touch it. Where's the heat gun?

Bugger, it just goes black and hard!!!



The new door (precoloured plastic) looks nice . . .

[xSilverPhinx]

I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.

I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.

In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.

We used a sort of white metallic paint? I don't know if that's the proper word for it. It reflects light so that the room is lighter.

More expensive than regular paints and smells just as bad for the first few days.

[Waski_the_Squirrel]

"Fresh paint: the smell of progress." 

Fresh paint - time to stay at a hotel for a week!

I am in the middle of renovations as well. Having the teak parquet floors sanded and sealed. Also repainting. The interesting thing is that with the new paint and sealer technologies, there has been almost no smell. It is possible to sleep in the room the same night with no noticeable smell at all. The dust is the only nuisance, but the company I am using has been very good with cleaning up.

I found this too. I've painted the entire main floor, and while I could smell paint while I was painting, I had no problem sleeping or living with it. I slept in the bedroom while painting that room. (In a small house like mine, there aren't choices or other rooms to move the furniture to.) While the paint is drying, there is a faint ammonia smell.

In fairness, I paint in the summer. Since I don't have air conditioning, lots of fresh air comes through. But, even when I painted the basement I didn't notice much.

It is mid-winter here, but the days are not too cold: around 14 degrees C. I remember using polyurethane sealer in the old days before it got banned. That was really terribly overpowering.
The apartment is 160 square meters, so it is easy for me to move things around.

My house is 62 square meters (672 square feet) so it's a little more challenging.

[Pasta Chick]

I'm about to restart reno. Before it decided to be 95F with 90% humidity for like a month and a half, we started on the upstairs bedroom. Unfortunately, the previous owners were douchebags, and glued foam padding of the variety one typically finds in the basement all over the 2" antique barn board floors. After painting them white. Because that makes sense.