Exploratory Surgery or Rubbing My Nasty Door
Since the hall bath is ostensibly finished, I've begun flirting with the idea of refinishing the bathroom door. Genius, I know.
Unless I'm mistake as idiots often are, there are 4 layers of gunk to be removed on the bathroom side of the door and 2 layers on the hall side. The 4 layers are: mold, and three layers of shellac. The 2 layers are white paint over shellac.
Here is the bath side after I wiped and sand all the way down to the bare wood.
And here it is with some alcohol rubbed on it. It didn't really bring out the grain like I hoped it would.
My wife is thinking about painting this side of the door two shades of brown and an orange from the bathroom. If you want color samples or the actual scheme she has in mind, I'm at a loss because I just don't know.
However, looking at this bare wood and some of Gary's recent posts made me wonder about staining/shellacking or just shellacking the door. Hmmm. Sounds like we'll have to have an executive committee meeting about this.
Unless I'm mistake as idiots often are, there are 4 layers of gunk to be removed on the bathroom side of the door and 2 layers on the hall side. The 4 layers are: mold, and three layers of shellac. The 2 layers are white paint over shellac.
Here is the bath side after I wiped and sand all the way down to the bare wood.
And here it is with some alcohol rubbed on it. It didn't really bring out the grain like I hoped it would.
My wife is thinking about painting this side of the door two shades of brown and an orange from the bathroom. If you want color samples or the actual scheme she has in mind, I'm at a loss because I just don't know.
However, looking at this bare wood and some of Gary's recent posts made me wonder about staining/shellacking or just shellacking the door. Hmmm. Sounds like we'll have to have an executive committee meeting about this.
posted by John | 7:52 PM
3 Comments:
6 layers altogether? Sounds like you've got a fair bit of work on your hands.
I don't want to curse myself, but the side shown in the picture cleaned up with very little effort. Then again, my only point of reference for this kind of work is dry scraping 2 or 3 layers of paint off our beadboard ceiling. I figure I could get this side cleaned up in under two hours with my sander, but the side with paint will probably take much longer.
I vote for stain and shellac. Together they will bring out any grain in the wood. However, based on my experience refinishing woodwork, multiply your time estimate by pi (3.14) to determine the actual time it will take. Since you have a deadline, it might be better to paint the door now then strip it when you have more time on your hands. I have to recommend Minwax Sedona Red stain and Zinsser Amber Shellac. The stain alone looks like red Sharpie ink, but with the shellac it is a great warm amber color.
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