Wow! Look at that exposed wood. It just makes me drool!

Wow, look at that handsome stud covered in dust and dirt next to that exposed wooden door. Now what else could a girl ask for!!

The bathroom built-in with the plaster knocked out.

People told us “Oh my god, you’re working on the house on Christmas??”…which is funny, because well, what else were we going to do? Sit on the couch and twiddle our thumbs? Of course we’re going to work on our house during the little time we have off! Paint stripping, when coming off easily, is actually quite relaxing and fun…

The back bedroom served as our paint-stripping territory. Here we (“we” as in Steffi takes a sec to step away from the scraper and behind the camera) were working on the bathroom door.

Below the 2 layers of white, one layer of baby pink, and one layer of mint green we got to this redish-purplish-brown paint below which lays the wood.

We also knocked the rest of the broken plastic out of the door. Oh my goodness…the wood. How sexy!!

The bathroom built-in. Look at that small strip of wood that has some green and pink on it. That’s what we’re working on. It may not be much, but it sure as hell is a lot of work!

The bottom part of the built-in. Look at all that stripped paint on the floor. We also discovered another part of a toilet that we never realized we owned!

Since we have all this painted over hardware we thought we’d try to boil off the paint. Someone had told us it would help peel things right off. Didn’t quite work as well though. I guess that applies more to latex paint, and 91 years of paint means a lot more than latex.

We started scraping the paint off the beautiful wood in the dining room.

Closer look.

Not pictured: Putting new sash cords in one of the kitchen windows.

The bathtub water access. The plumber didn’t follow directions on how high to place the valves so he had to redo that after we inspected it. You can’t really tell from the picture, but the wood that the pipes are attached to is also hanging sideways, so has to be corrected as well. It now appears to be correct.