Priming and Stripping

So the priming of the bedroom floor has begun... in fact, it might be almost finished as the contractor now wants the colors we'll be using. We need to do some deciding.

So at the same time as the priming upstairs, downstairs on the parlor floor the fireplace mantels and facades are being stripped of their heinous lead paint. Well, the verdict is not in yet, but it looks likely that one mantel will be successfully stripped. And it looks just as likely that the other one will not be so successful. It seems that our intrepid previous owner(s) did a tremendous job of painting a porous marble with a seemingly black paint that was effectively absorbed by the marble. Thereby destroying it. So, we will likely have to paint it. Which means, by extention, that in a year or so we may be hunting for a salvage mantel to replace the one that did not get successfully stripped. C'est la vie.