Steven was excited to start the tung oil application. We were able to applied one coat before Steven started to hurt. . I poured the tung oil and Steven spread it.
Month: August 2020
Painting bathroom walls
We finished taping, mudding, and sanding the bathroom in preparation of radiator installation. Today was the day to paint the ceiling and walls.The shower ceiling will be painted white.
Sanding Dining And Living Room Floors
The dining room floor had been sanded with a coarse grit earlier. Steven was able to finish the coarse grit on both rooms. We ran out of time to do the finishing grits because the sander was not working properly and was only using about 1/4 of the sand paper. The rental charged us much less because of this and we will rent the drum sander and an edger to finish next week.
Bedroom floor before and after
We could only do half the bedroom floor at a time because of the Murphy bed. The first picture is before sanding and then different stages of grit sanding. We didn’t get the smooth finish we desire because the sander was only using half of the sand paper and Steven had to work a lot harder to get the desired results
Getting Ready to Sand floors
Extra cabinets and tools moved to kitchen to clear dining room and living room for floor sanding.
Second floor landing railing
We found a railing at the Restore. It was a golde oak color. I sanded and steel wooled and then stained. I will darken it even more with a stain and polyurethane mixture. When I sanded I rounded all the sharp edges to give an older look.
original railing 
Sanded railing 
Stained railing
Filling in Flooring prior to Sanding
There were holes on each side of the living/ding doorway where bookcases used to be. Steven filled those spaces in with extra flooring before we sand. A china cabinet will be on one side and a bookcase on the other.
Ceramic walls installed to Ceiling
The tiles are installed up to the ceiling. We have decided to also tile the ceiling.
Bedroom door in Process
The original oak door was varnished; previous owners painted over the varnish. The first coat was a bright pink, the second coat was a heavy layer of white paint. Where the varnish had been in good shape, the paint peeled off easily, where the varnish was deteriorated it had to be scraped. The inner trim of the panels still had heavy paint which had to be scraped off. One side is stripped and stained finally.
White paint peeled off 
White paint over pink paint 
Bathroom mudding
We need to finish the wall behind the towel warmer radiator before it is installed. The wall consisted of rough cement board so Steven had to mud the entire wall. It is looking pretty good. We just can’t decide what color to paint the bathroom.
Rough Cement Board Partially Muddded 
Entire Wall Mudded/Ready for Sanding