China Cabinet

My new stripping project is the built-in China Cabinet. This cabinet is kind of neat. It spans two rooms, a small room that was probably the pantry part of the old house, which is probably why it is so named and the dining room, so you can put a plate in from the pantry side and take it out on the dining room side. The drawers do the same. There is also two doors that at one time they slid the food from the pantry to be served in the dining room.

The outside of this project too is varnished. I haven't yet stripped much paint (not counting the porch), just varnish. This doesn't have layers and layers of varnish. It looks like only one layer that is in bad need of removal. One thing I have learned is that stripping is actually easier when there is many layers, one layer doesn't give you the long crispy strips it just kind of gets crumbly. After cleaning it with Methal Hydrate it often looks like this.

With much picking, scrapping. The doors and drawers look like this.

These to will be stained with Minwax Ipswich Pine and I will post the results.

Nancy