Well, I’ve been hinting at the final results of all the sanding, scraping and sealing of the house. I’m not sure how many sanding pads we went through, how many nails and staples we pulled out of the walls, but you can now see the results of all that work.
As I mentioned previously, the house has, throughout, fir shiplap paneling. It wasn’t clear, vertical grain fir that people might want to select today, but we feel the variation in the grain and variety of color tone adds so much to the character of this house.
The left picture is our son sanding one of the walls. My wife and I also spent many hours on step stools and ladders sanding and touching virtually every surface in this house.
The picture on the right shows the results of those efforts. We sealed the walls with an Olympic brand clear sealer in a satin finish. This will allow easier cleaning and it also brought out the richness of the fir.
This is a great example of the “reuse” portion of the reduce, recycle, reuse part of environmental stewardship. This 1907 home still retains about 95% of the original materials.
When I asked our son (who has done the bulk of the work) if he knew then what he knows now, would he do it again?
Without hesitation, he said “YES!” He is loving living in the house.