Complete Interior Renovation
To bring all of you up to date. Cathie and I are assisting in renovating the interior of a house that was built in 1982. The work includes Refinishing all cabinetry, all doors, all trim. Removing the popcorn style texture from the ceilings and then texturing them with orange peel texture and painting them. This is one of the biggest projects we have undertaken. Ken Rader Interiors was contracted for this work because we had done work for the owners several years ago in another house. We had a good working relationship and that has served us well.
Now, we have scraped the ceilings, textured them and painted them. We have also painted the closets. The phase that we have entered at this point calls for a lot of sanding and cleaning of the passage doors, cabinet doors and drawers, Kitchen cabinets, 3 bathroom cabinets. We have set up a paint booth in the sun room of the house in order to paint the cabinet doors, drawers and shelves. We have also removed all of the base boards in the house because new tile and hardwood is going down. I removed them so that I could mark them and make installing them after the floors are done much easier. We are using a couple of new products on this project. Because there are sooooo many cabinet doors, passage doors and so much trim. We purchased Door Deckers from Speed Painting for the passage doors and Erect-a-rack to stack the cabinet doors on. These are proving to be wise choices. We are documenting each day’s progress and providing pictures. Today we finished sanding all of the cabinets, cleaned them and have them masked off ready for paint. We also installed the door deckers. Everything is ready for spraying tomorrow. Much time and care has been taken to mark each door and drawer and piece of trim. All of the individual pieces add up to over 190. Each doorknob taken off of the doors had to be put back together to insure they will work when we put them back on the doors.
We will be posting each day and uploading pictures for your education and hopefully enjoyment. Check us out each day at www.facebook.com/ken.rader.interiors
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Thanks—We will endeavor too persevere.
Ken and Cathie
