Moviehole-katietreasures: Paint it White

I grew up in New Rochelle, N.Y. in an Arts and Craft's Style home.
I think my parents bought the house the year I was born.

I remember my mother standing on the front porch stripping white paint off of each interior door.

They stripped and stained every door in that house to a more original finish.

I decided to see if I could find a google image of my childhood home. Instead... I saw that is has been listed and has sold recently.
How fun to be able to virtual tour my childhood home.

I noticed that some of the doors have been refinished in a lighter tone and others have been repainted white.
I guess it was time. It was in the 60's when my parents were working on it.

That memory of my mom refinishing those doors has been deeply ingrained in me.

Which is why I had a bit of a hard time finally brushing paint on some of the surfaces in my home.

I started painting stuff white back in January when I did a post on the dish dresser.
Bill built it for me back in the 80's.

It was light pine which was super popular back then.

He was not feeling sentimental about this piece and said I could give it away, but I couldn't do that. He built it with the tools and skills he had at the time from a drawing I gave him.

He thinks it is crude, but I love it.
I just didn't love the pine stain.

The effects of the paintbrush were so unbelievable and immediately gratifying that

it started me on a quest of painting some of my furniture.
My parent's voices were kind of echoing in my head.

But, I couldn't stand some of the stained wood around here.