Take it off, baby! Take it ALL off!
The kitchen of the Cross House has two windows. There is a HUGE double window facing south. And a large single window facing east.
Unlike almost all the other window sashes in house, the kitchen sashes are glopped with paint on the inside. Layers upon layers upon layers of paint.
Ugh.
The east kitchen window sash. This is the inside. You see what I mean about the ugh.
But under all that ugh? Oh my!
The lovely, newly exposed wood does not seem to be the original finish. Sigh. The original finish, I think, was a brown paint, kinda a nutmeg color. I keep finding this in the service areas.
I am soon sending out paint samples of the kitchen/pantry to be analyzed and it will be really interesting to discover what the original colors/finishes were. My plan is to recreate these colors/finishes.
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Fascinating! So this the bare wood sans finish?
Yep!
I recently read an article about paint and woodwork in the 18th and 19th centuries and, during the late 1800s, this is what all the “experts” were recommending…NOT to paint the woodwork except in kitchens and bathrooms. This was thought to be more sanitary. The color white was frowned upon because of its’ tendency to “yellow” and look dirty over time. The color they recommended? Russet brown.
Oh!
Cool!
What stripper are you using? BTW, I am #39 on the waiting list for a new Cobra Speedheater paint stripper! They are backordered, but are supposed to arrive from Sweden next month! I’ll be the busiest stripper this side of Las Vegas! 🙂
Ross, where do you get paint analyzed? You’ve inspired me to see if I get find the original colors to my 1896 Tudor house in Baltimore.