1919 American Four Square

Why is the master bedroom always the last room people change? Ours has had the same blah beige paint since we moved in over three years ago. We pulled up the carpet (icky, dirty) pretty quickly, but that’s been about all we’ve done. The paint job the P.O.s did was…ah, inadequate. The ceiling paint flaked and peeled so badly that it took little to no effort to scrape off. One swipe of the scraper and down it came. Wait a month, scrape some more. The only good adhesion is in along the edges. The floor has drops, smudges and pools of dried paint. It would be upsetting if the floor didn’t need refinishing.

We have chosen a color from Benjamin Moore called Caldwell Green for the walls. I’m a little concerned with the color, it seems pretty dark.

We are stripping the baseboard and door & window trim. It has always been painted, never shellaced. We have a white (with a undertone of green) semi-gloss paint that we will paint the trim. Hopefully, that will brighten things up. We have the same color for the ceiling.

A 5 foot bolt of nice green floral fabric is waiting in the closet to be reworked into draperies.

The floor is asking for a drink of denatured alcohol. That is an experience I am not anxious to repeat, but 1) I know it will be worth it in the end and 2) we won’t be doing it in the heat and humidity and 3) I think I have a few brain cells I haven’t damaged yet.

We moved all the furniture out of the master (except for the queen-size bed) and have relocated the contents elsewhere. We are jammed. No stubbed toes…yet. So, out comes my favorite tool, the heat gun. We have finished one short wall. I’m hoping that we can do this at the same time as the finish work in the kitchen and the two bathrooms. Unfortunately, it’s been bitterly cold here for much of the past month. It’s just been too cold to do a lot of the construction work in the unheated barn where the table saw etc. reside. I am hoping we see an early spring, but word is we are getting another three inches of snow tomorrow.

So we are starting the master.

Hopefully, it will be painful enough being jammed into the guest room that we’ll finish it up quick.

Pictures soon.