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I’m sure you’re sick of hearing about our interior doors by now – we’re definitely sick of restoring and writing about them but, as we’ve finally managed to completely finish all of them, we just had to share a few before and after pictures with you!

This is what our hallway looked like on the day we moved in.

Hallway Before

Besides from the hideous brown Artex walls, green ceiling and cheap laminate flooring, our original Edwardian doors (and staircase banisters) had been boarded up and covered in more layers of yellowed glossy paint that could even be counted.

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After some painting, restoring the staircase and sanding the floorboards, it was already looking a lot better, but the original Edwardian doors that we found under the boards were in a really poor state.

We’ve still not quite finished, but it’s already come a long way and this is what it looks like now!

Edwardian Hallway Progress

As you can see, we changed the layout ever so slightly through moving the kitchen door further forward into the hallway to create a larger kitchen on the other side.

Most importantly, we finally finished stripping, sanding and painting the kitchen door.

Edwardian Door Restoration

Although we decided to go with a natural, waxed finish on all of the upstairs doors, in the end we decided to go with a painted finish downstairs – partly because we already spend hours stripping, sanding and repainting the living room door, but also because we think the white doors will look better with the colours of the walls we have chosen.

But, that’s not all we’ve been stripping, sanding and painting! We finally got round to restoring the dado rail and skirting, too.

Just in case you’re wondering why we bother going to the effort of stripping and sanding everything before repainting it, this is what our dado rail looked like before starting to work on it.

Dado Rail Before

It was just covered in layer upon layer of paint. After a few hours of messy stripping and sanding our hallway looked a bit of a mess,

Dado Rail Before

but our skirting and dado rail were already looking a lot better.

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And after a few coats of paint, it’s almost unrecognizable.

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Obviously the walls still need to be skimmed, but it’s already looking a lot better than it was.

It’s hard to tell on the pictures, but in real life it’s made such a huge difference to the feel of the whole hallway. It just all feels much cleaner and brighter.

Oh, and for the first time in 4 years of living in our home, we have door knobs on every single door! Amazing, right? Isn’t it funny how the things that most people take for granted are sometimes the things that make the biggest difference?

Edwardian Door

Have you added or changes something little in your home that made a huge difference to your life? Have you ever stripped old paint of woodwork?

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  1. Sarah Pedersen says

    17/07/2014 at 11:12

    I’m curious – how are you stripping your rail and skirting boards? Heat gun? Nitromos? Both? I’m debating doing this to ours and not sure if it’ll be worth the effort. But yours look so clean and tidy, that I’m tempted!

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    • Christine says

      17/07/2014 at 14:25

      We’re stripping all woodwork with the help of a heat gun. Using a chemical stripper would just be way too expensive. It is a lot of work, but the results are so worth it! You can read more about how we stripped our skirting boards here and more about how we painted them here.
      Good luck, Sarah!
      Cx

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  2. Magali@TheLittleWhiteHouse says

    16/07/2014 at 20:28

    Funnily enough, I spent four hours working on the dining-room door today! I can’t stand it anymore, I’m serioulsy leaving the upstairs as an open space!

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    • Christine says

      16/07/2014 at 21:47

      Looking back and knowing what I do now, I would have just had all doors stripped and would have waxed them all. Waxing a door took about 45 minutes compared to about 4 hours of painting per door. I do love both, but waxing was just so much quicker and easier!
      Can’t wait to see what you get up to know that the holidays have started!
      Cx

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