After The Floors Were Refinished

I got a call from a woman who sounded desperate and nervous.  Her floors were about to be sanded and refinished, and she needed someone to come in to paint a section of her house rather immediately after they were done.  This section included her bedroom, hallways, and stairwell.  They also had several wood doors stripped, which needed to be primed and painted.  The issue was that she was living at a neighbor's house during the floor refinishing, and she wanted her bedroom painted before she moved back in.  So, I swooped in and took care of this house in a few days with my entire crew. 

She started to prep the bedroom the day before we started by attempting to strip the wallpaper.  This wallpaper looked like decorative burlap.  After a full day, she only got about 6 feet removed, which you can see on the left side of the before photo below.

Bedroom before

We feathered in this seam, painted the ceiling, walls, interior of the closet, trim, baseboards, closet doors, and the 2 room doors. 

Bedroom after

 The second floor hallway had its challenges.  First being that the large stairwell and the woodwork was perfect.  We could not risk a single spec of paint dripping anywhere.  The photo below is before we covered the entire space with drop cloths.

2nd floor hall before

After repairing the damage on the plaster walls and ceiling, priming the closet doors, painting the ceiling, walls, trim, baseboards, interior of the closet, and the doors, the stairwell looked complete in the photo below.

2nd floor stairwell after

 The wallpaper in the 1st floor hallway matched the trim perfectly.  The butterflies were the same color of the amazing woodwork in this house.  But, there was some cool blue tones in the paper that you cannot see in this photo.  The homeowner did not like the cool blue with the newly refinished floors, so the paper had to go much to the chagrin of her husband.

1st floor hallway before

1st floor hallway before

So, we stripped the wallpaper, primed the walls, repaired the holes and damage, painted the ceiling and walls, and make it look like the rest of the stairwell and hall.

1st floor hallway after

 

1st floor hallway after

Towards the end of this job, we realized that the homeowners were sleeping in their guest room, and the mad rush to get this work started was not as essential as we thought.  However, I know that they are happy to be able to sleep in their own bedroom tonight.