Can this be done please?

A lot of progress has been made on the wood stripping this April. I promised myself that I'd have a finished dining room in 2014, and I am bound and determined to make that a reality!

Most of the paint is already stripped near the windows; it just needs major cleaning. I had used the heat gun, and it's just not possible to remove paint from crevices without scorching the wood. (I know that from experience and there are several black spots to prove it - lesson learned).


Just a reminder of how nasty it gets scraping/scrubbing the citristrip goo.


I hate window corners the most. Even with the tiniest little scrubber brush, it is very time consuming to get the paint out of the corner.  



I found a surprise! All of the top windows move up/down, just like the bottom! I would never have known this as the top windows were painted shut.


I got two windows completely stripped and cleaned. The wood looks so pretty! I have googled many blogs this month and have decided I'm going to try rubbing in boiled linseed oil instead of staining. After sanding of course.  





I still have to clean the last window and all the paneling on this side. Hopefully, next weekend!



The wood looks so different without 100 year old varnish on it!



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