Last Nov SWMBO and I had a argument about my ToDo list.
Seems like she wasn't happy with the rate of progress.
The longest standing item on the Todo list was the bathroom door frame.
Back in the early 1980s, I started to restore the 6 Jarrah door frames and Oregon doors (painted lime green by the previous owners) back to show their original timber.
This involved removing the doors and sending them off to get stripped by dipping. This took most of the colour out of the Oregon so we had to put some colour back - this ended up being too much but we decided to live with it.
The easiest way to strip the 7 layers of (mainly leaded) paint off the frames and architraves was to remove the architraves and use a belt sander outside to strip the paint. During the removal from the doorway some of the split architraves shattered and had to be replaced. The door frame itself was done with paint stripper, in short a bath-plug of a job.
I ran out of puff a few months after I started before I finished the bathroom door frame - I had stripped a couple of layers of paint off and it looked pretty ragged.
In the meantime we had the bathroom renovated and without thinking we had the tiles installed around part of the architrave inside the bathroom which made it impossible to remove the architrave and very difficult to strip the paint off along the tiled edge - I tried it - it looked awful.
Following said discussion with SWMBO we decided to paint the architrave inside the bathroom white and just restore the frame and architrave of the door in the hallway.
I removed said door and it has been off the bathroom since Nov and it finally got finished today.
SWMBO is very happy that it is finished bit there are still many things on the list.
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