Queen Anne Gets a Paint Job, Part 2

The scraping and priming has begun! Karstin and Alex have been diligently grinding and hand scraping the layers of paint off of the east and north sides of our home. Some of these pictures are not for the faint of heart, especially if you have a fear of heights. You have been warned!

Access to the porch roof is very important. The painters can reach a lot of the house from here!

A lot of the second floor has been scraped.

Moving on to the north side of the house...

The wooden pillars came pretty clean. The spindles under the railings took them over a week to complete! There were many layers of paint on each one of them, but they got it all down to the bare wood.

Yeah, that is pretty high...

This is why we hired someone to paint our house. There's no way I'd go up there.

Gulp.

Now that they are finished putting the primer on these two sides of the house, we can get excited for color to be added. You read that right - COLOR. Queen Anne is getting a new paint job, and color, to boot! And not just one color... SEVEN.

Primer is all done on this side! It won't be white for long...

All has been completed on the north side, too, except for the very top of the peak.

The spindles turned out great. All 159 of them.

Stay tuned for more updates on our painting adventure!