guest room windows, day1

The good thing about having misc projects done for you is they get done in a very short period of time. Something that would have taken you 6 months is scratched off the list in a week. For a while I kind of forgot we have this extra bedroom because we almost never go in there. It was nice seeing the dramatic transformation. It doesn't seem like much, but it totally changes the room.

The crappy white moldings were the first things to go. We could finally see what we were dealing with. I immediately homed in on the wallpaper -- that must have looked interesting. In all we were missing three 8 pound weights. Luckily a PO had the foresight to save these in the basement. Each sash was carefully removed and was thoroughly scraped and sanded down. A head to toe restoration of an old window is a multi-stage task, so we had to grow accustomed to having two giant holes in the side of our house for a while. I was surprised a pigeon didn't set up shop in there, as we only had tarps covering the windows.