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| Painting by Bertha Torbjoernsen – 19 August 1889 |
There is a lot of work involved in Fixing Up an historic 200 year old house.
Historical research and government (general and local) laws,
rules and regulations play a significant role in determining what to do and
when to do it, and if the project can
be done. More work is involved if the house happened to be home to a chain
smoker for 25+ years who rarely went outside.
Removing all of the interior wallpaper, flooring, cabinets,
etc. is a good place to start once the house has been cleared of old
appliances, furnishings, window covers, and other forms of debris. Then a
complete wash of all surfaces is in order.
If available, using oil base paint to coat all ceilings and
walls will help curtail the golden brown nicotine from bleeding through much if
at all.
If you are in the USA, or can get ahold of it, you could use
a paint product called “Break-Through” (Vanex Inc. has it). It is an expensive
product I used for over 10 years in a California HMO’s chain of 25 San
Francisco Bay Area hospitals and clinics. It dries super-fast and is very hard
when dry and actually covered black permanent marker stains easily. That was
during the 1980s & 90s, so check with the manufacturer to be assured the
chemical composition of the paint has not changed over the past 20 years. I
wish I could have used that product here.
I have more to do, so off I go! Enjoy the pics!
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| Reversing a bathroom door to open into the hall |
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| Pre Paint entry |
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| Attic |
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| Working in the attic |
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| More of the attic framing underway |
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| A 'Soft-Close' attic door I constructed -slides easily like a drawer |
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| Living room before clean up |
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| Stairway after paint |
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| Living room under way |
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