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Show I FIRST AID to the AILING HOUSE BY ROGER C. WHITMAN Changing Woodwork Finish " QUESTION: We bought an oli cottage which has grained wood-j work. It is badly marred in places.', Is there any possible way this can be removed and an oil stain applied? ap-plied? The baseboards are rather wide and I am afraid if we were toonamel them white, it would make them look still wider. ANSWER: I don't agree with you on that point. I believe that if you were to enamel them to match the color of t h e walls, the width of the baseboard would not be so apparent as it would be if it were a contrasting, and probably a darker color than the walls. You can remove the present finish with a small portable porta-ble electric sander (if you can buy or rent one), or else by softening soften-ing it with varnish remover and scraping it off, then cleaning off the remover thoroughly with turpentine. tur-pentine. You can finish with two coats of enamel undercoater and a coat of enamel, or else with your oil stain and varnish. I hope you will not make the woodwork too dark. |