with all the reupholstering and refinishing happening around here, we thought we'd take on a bigger challenge - the MANTELS.
as you might remember, the mantels looked like this before demolition of the interior.
we discovered the hard way that under the white paint, there are two more layers of white and for good measure, a single layer of turquoise paint.
five hours of elbow grease, here's what mantel #1 looks like.
the belief is that the wood is white oak and that they should clean up beautifully. if not, our backup plan = repaint them.
4 comments:
go go madonna arms!
don't you mean "go go obama arms?"
C'mon ladies, don't lead us on with blog post titles like that.
I'm overwhelmed and exhausted just looking at these photos...and by the thought that repainting them after all that has even crossed your minds...Ugh. My fingers are crossed for you.
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