Making dining room progress
Hello dear friends how are you? Happy spring and with the overall nicer weather, I have made leaps and bounds on the dining room. Sanding everything down to prep for stain as I'm sure you know is exhausting. I wanted to do the old wood staining first before I did the new wood. Trying my best to get it all to match, which as we know is not easy. Taping off old and new wood because I used different tints for the wood. Pocket doors getting their color. Trying to match all the wood colors. After with final color and 3 coats of shellac on it all. I think it all matches fairly closely. The hutch was done many years ago and shellac sheen has dulled a bit so I imagine the rest of the wood will develop the same patina over time. After all this I had to touch up paint and prep walls for wallpaper and then hang drapes, roller shades and clean, clean CLEAN. The dust caused by this room that spread everywhere was spectacular. Numerous times cleaning it still found ways to layer o
