Q: I am restoring a 1917 Craftsman bungalow. It's a basic house that was painted all white on the inside. Everything was painted white--all the Douglas fir moldings, baseboards, everything.
I have been stripping the paint for years. Fortunately, a lot of the built-up layers were painted over varnish, making removal a little less time-consuming, since the paint never became part of the wood.
But now I need to know how to remove the residual paint, the little specks here and there. more...