Scott and I did a little scraping on the linen closet door yesterday. I hate the fact that instead of getting some soap and water and wiping off the damn inkpen mark someone's kid left up there, they got out the paint and covered it up.
Smart people also don't paint over varnish...because it peels up.
We got the bulk of it up with a little gentle scraping--most of it came
up in large pieces. In some spots I had to use paint stripper, which was
a pain in the ass. There's still some paint residue that will probably
come up with a little sanding, and there's just enough varnish still up
there that we'll be able to match the color of the other doors. I
foresee a heat gun purchase in my near future.
I like the wood pattern on the doors (our doors are full wood slabs, not
hollow). It's sort of a retroesque swirl pattern that'll look nice when
we get the floors cleaned up and some paint on the walls.
All we have left to do in the hallway is finish sanding the spackle off
the ceiling and sand the floors. Then we'll slap up some paint (I had
originally purchased flat paint for the front room and hallway, but
considering how much trouble that'll be with handprints and all, I'll go
and get a bucket of latex for the hall), and worry about doing the
floors right before we go on vacation--so that we can't walk on them.
Then I'll be able to hang pictures and stuff. And then we can start on
retiling the hallway bathroom.
So...folks, don't paint wood. MDF? Fine. Plywood? Sure, g'wan. Wood?
Hells no.