My 70's House

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Paint Wood Paneling

This was really time-consuming project. I don't want to discourage people from doing this project but painting wood paneling requires a lot of time and patients. I think I almost broke world record for # of swearing per hour while I was painting wood paneling. Here are the steps that I took.

1. Sand it (see pic below)

2. Clean it
3. Prime it with Kilz
4. Paint it
5. Paint it (I had to paint twice to make it look nice/straight)

At end, my room looks much better. Or I want to believe that it looks much better after all that work. Here are some before after pics.

Before

After

Before

After

Labels: painting, wood paneling

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

My Wall is So Sexy!

Well, not exactly yet. However, this work-in-progress drywall is already much much better looking than my old wood paneling wall. Here is the picture of how my hero, the handyman, is transforming my wall. Also an unrelated picture of Lili.

Labels: drywall, wood paneling

Sunday, October 15, 2006

The Killing of Wood Paneling

I have this super ugly wood paneling in the den. It is so 70's and it makes me depressed every time I have to look at it. My handyman had a left-over drywall from the work he was doing in my guest room. So I decided to rip the wood paneling off one wall and let the handyman put the drywall there. It required a little bit of my muscle power to take the wood panelings off. For the rest of the walls in the den, I have to come up with some clever solutions. I cannot afford to drywall the whole room. Stay tuned.

Update:
I ended up painting the rest of the wall. Here are After pictures.

Labels: wood paneling