I'm busy stripping our old interior doors with my heat gun. I am so in love with this little dude. I forgot all about it until I was painting on chemical stripper and Seb said "why don't you try that heat gun thing you like so much?" I spent the next two hours with the chemical stripper but then today I pulled out my buddy and poof! My door was done in an afternoon. Well okay one side was done but it was about ten times faster than with the chemicals and a lot less messy.
The idea is to either leave them rustic like this or paint them matte white depending on how well they go with the tile and the rest of the house. We've decided that even if the house is old we want a modern interior so I'm wondering if they'd be too much of a shock, but maybe it would work as modern and rustic sometimes do? Or maybe I should just repaint them.
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I love them like that. I think they'd work with a modern interior!
Shabby chic! I love them.
Do you guys not have lead paint? That's our huge problem - we have to send everything out to get stripped because it's got layers and layers of lead paint. Not to mention all the usual strippers don't work (including the heat gun, which I used initially). Anything we do, generates lead dust/mess, so they have to go out.
The door looks great! I think you can get away with it looking shabby chic.
Thanks. I'd seen a picture somewhere in a Domino archive photo with old partially stripped doors and a modern interior and it worked really well. Wish I could find that for some proof. Seb hates SC so I won't even mention that to him. I'm trying to sell him on the idea but he doesn't quite get it.
C - Ugh yes we do have a TON of lead paint in our house but I wear a mask and gloves when I do this. It's scary to think of having it in the house with kids. I think the big worry though is if you sand lead paint and create dust particles or have your heat gun on too high and there's smoke. At least that's what I've read since renovationg. I hope I'm right.
I'd probably paint them white. I'm not fond of shabby chic in anything other than fabric. But that's just me.
How many doors left?
:-)
I like the shabby chick look. I so admire you for taking on the project of home renovation. I've always dreamed of an old house to renovate and of course, the unlimited bank account needed to take care of an old home ;)
I'll have to look into that heat gun someday. I also have several doors and moldings in our old house that will need to be stripped and then repainted. I love that you have the paneled doors so they can look good with shabby chic whether they're repainted or not.
jc - one down eight to go, le sigh.
hexe - I always though it would be fun to redo old buildings as an investment. It would be to much fun to do it and not live in it.
Erica - I didn't know you had an old house. Is it rented for now? You definitely need to get a heat gun. It goes a lot faster.
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