Step #1: Remove Wood Trim

One of the best selling features of this house was that the majority of the wooden trim was NOT painted over! In the Cathedral area, it seems it is harder and harder to find an older house that someone hasn't decided to be lazy and just paint the trim.

So our first job to do,before we could start the demolition, was to remove all of the wooden trim from the two floors. This included door trim, baseboards, and window trim. Markus and I pulled all the nails from the boards as soon as we removed them, labeled them, and then for the doors and windows, we wrapped all the corresponding parts together, so we would know 6 months later which piece went where. I hope this time spent in the beginning will pay off in a few months when we will have to start digging through the ridiculous pile of wooden trim in our basement, find the right parts and begin refinishing them.