Jim Morrison Would Be Proud

So, sorry for the lack of updates, but we have been doing lots of DIY, honest!  It's the same job that seems to have been going on for years now (mostly because it has, but that's our fault for stopping and starting all the time), it's the doors.  For such a small flat we seem to have a ridiculous amount of doors.  And of course they all need stripping, sanding and repainting.  Fun.

Well, so far (as in since we moved in!) we've done the two cupboard doors in the bedroom, along with the bedroom door itself.  In progress are:

• the spare room door - stripped;
• the kitchen cupboard door - waiting to be rehung;
• the toilet door - waiting to be rehung;
• the living room to bedrooms door - stripped; and
• the hall to living room door - stripped and half sanded.

We haven't even started on the bathroom door yet, which hopefully may not need sanding, or the utility room door, which we plan to replace entirely with a nice glass-paned door to let more light into the hall.

The weather hasn't been great for sanding for the past week, so whilst I was waiting for more doors to paint I had to look around for something else to get on with that wasn't so major it needed both of us to do it.  Well, I found something.  More doors.  It. Never. Ends.

This time, they're wardrobe doors from the spare room.  There's a built in wooden wardrobe in the corner of the spare room, and while we don't love it, it is very useful, and ripping it out would just be too much of a job for no real pay off (as in we're planning on selling so we don't have any major future plans for the room).

So we decided that the best option would be to paint it, so at least it's not so obvious and orange.

So far I've done the top cupboard doors, thinking they wouldn't take more than a day or two to do.  Not so.  After taking a day to wipe down, sand, wipe down again and then paint six (yes six) coats of paint on the first door I realised that it might take longer than I anticipated.

After the six coat nightmare on the first door (only one side too, mind) I was seeing louvres in my sleep.  I hadn't bothered to use primer on the first go because I'd got a good surface for the paint to adhere to just by sanding, but I decided it was worth a shot.  It stunk to high heaven, but it saved me one coat!

 one down!

So I'm 3/4 the way through the top two small doors, which should be done by tomorrow, and then I can start on the big doors.  Not really looking forward to it, but I know it'll look so much better when it's finished, so I just keep picturing a nice white wardrobe... one day!

wardrobe circa 2025