Ginger in the shower on a busy saturday
We started stripping the paint off of the old bathroom door today. Our plan is to convert that original bathroom door into a pocket door. Originally we were going to just repaint the doors but after stripping the paint off we really like the wood color, and now we are rethinking what we want to do with the the doors and the trim.
Stripping paint is terrible work.
I also stripped the paint off of these door plates and I think they could be very nice looking, but I have no idea what kind of metal they are or how to finish them to look the best.
And I thought I would share this picture I snapped of Ginger tonight while we were giving her a bath.
Last night I had some fun at Best Buy helping my parents pick out a brand new HDTV. I’m surprised at the quality of HDTV’s, I don’t think they are very good. You really get what you pay for and the affordable ones are just crap. The CRT HDTV that we got two years ago still has one of the best looking pictures I’ve seen, it’s too bad it’s gigantic. My parents ended up with a Sony Bravia 32in and for the price I think it was the best thing Best Buy had to offer.
-Josh
Posted on June 7th, 2008 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants
The door looks like it is coming along nicely, and I would stake a couple of quarters on a bet that those mechanism covers are copper, in which case a healthy dose of Brasso(tm) and car polish will do the trick.
I beg to differ, brass was much more common metal for hardware. Brasso ™ will work well and if you want the metal to age and petinna then polish and leave alone, otherwise polish then coat with spray clear. I know how the paint stripping job goes that was last summer for me. Mom and dad can tell you that the work was worth it cause my doors turned out very nice.