Restoring Redwood Walls

Hi, We are restoring an 1880-1910 Victorian cottage. The walls are the original redwood beading board. The are pretty good condition, however, they seem very dried out. The house is located in Bolinas, CA, up the coast, north of San Fran. What do you recommend to restore that wood?

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What colours go best?

Do you think hacienda exterior walls will look OK with woodland grey guttering and roof the windows and screen doors either primrose or stone beige.

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Painting high walls.

How do you go about painting high walls? I have been asked to paint a living room in a friends house that has 22′ walls. It is a two-story house that is open to the living room from the second floor. She has hardwood floors and I don’t want to

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Painting Over Markings on a Wall

Okay, so when I was 12 me and my friends thought it would be a great idea to have some fun with some sharpies on my painted walls. I’m sick and tired of looking at the ginormous cartoon dinosaur over and over again each morning. I know we have the

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Painting fabric on walls.

I have some thick fabric walls that I want to paint. The fabric is not smooth but has some ticking and a wide weave. The fabric is glued to a wood back wall. Do you have any suggestions as to type of paint and method of application?

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Painting over smoke damaged walls.

I recently had an electrical fire in my co-op apartment. The bedroom was a total loss, and the other rooms suffered various amounts of smoke damage. I understand that the walls have to be scrubbed down, and sealed to cut down on the smoke smell. I have heard that there

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Paint issue 1 month after paint completion.

I am having an issue with a bathroom that I had painted recently. 1 month ago I painted the interior master bathroom with Lowe’s semi-gloss paint. It did not go on well and I needed to use multiple coats (in some areas up to 4 coats). I placed fans in

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Painting semi-gloss trim and priming.

My project is painting lots of windows 3-4′ wide and 6-8′ tall(6″ trim), doors (6″ trim) and base molding (8″ and 10 “) in a 100 yr. old house that currently has semi gloss paint. Are there any primers that really work where they state you can prime over gloss

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Ceiling Paint Slothing Off

I have a new house that was built in 1920. When I went to put new ceiling paint up as soon as I applied it, it started slothing off. My whole house is like this. I scraped all of the old ceiling paint off in one room but my house

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Paint on outside walls inside the home is cracking.

I painted all rooms 4 years ago when moving into this home. Last year I had extra insulation blown into the exterior of the home. Since that was done, there are patches of paint cracking/peeling, but only on the outside walls of some of the rooms. Does anyone have a

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