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Got one side of one of the louvered doors. Can't really tell how much longer it's taking because of the condition of the primer, but these take a while to work on. I should be able to get the other door, but at that point I think I should probably just throw the rest of this stuff away and just start the new bucket.

Glad I decided to do this right now. I think working on these, on the shelf I'm going to be painting black to sit atop my TV stand for when I get a 75" TV, and all the stuff I'm going to be spray painting is a good way to spend the time right now in between dehoarding the rest of the crap in the small bedroom. That way I'll still be getting house stuff done to, but more of the finishing touches than the 2 major projects I still want to have done by winter. I can get my house in order and still be doing house projects at the same time, and making much better use of drying time in between the coats.

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I can imagine louvers would be horrible to do with thickened paint, and difficult to do in any case. Let me know how it works out.

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SIX, those louvered doors look awesome!
What are they for? A closet?

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Thanks. Looks even better now with a coat of the shiny white paint on one side too.

The louvered doors are for the linen closet right across from the bathroom I was working on.

It's the funniest thing because I have no recollection if that was part of the house originally or not. If not, I'm sure my friend or his dad gave it to me many, many years ago and I put it up in the garage rafters and forgot completely about it.

But I really don't think it was here originally because until I realized I had it last year, I was under the impression that if I wanted to finally put the doors up for the small bedroom closet, I was going to have to spring $80 for another bi-fold (pre-Covid price around me).

But now I get to take the solid one I had on the linen closet for about 10 years now and put that with the other solid door in the small bedroom and this louvered one can be out in the hallway.

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I managed to clock in 3 hours on decluttering, so we ate leftovers for dinner.

Mostly, I wound up picking thru little stuff (keep/ give away/ recycle/ trash). A lot of stuff went to trash and recycling and the office looks significantly better. Tomorrow dear daughter and I will go thru some of her clutter together, drop off a bunch of recycling for $, and pick up some Rx.

Plus I need to spend some quality time in the kitchen, it's a mess!

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They don't know how good they've got it. I'd be in heaven just eating your leftovers all the time. I remember living at my Grams for around 5 years and I never ate better in my life. And she always made so much at one time that if you weren't taking it to work with you the next day for lunch some of it was going to go bad. And we had 4 adults living there and eating all of it.

Good luck with the decluttering.

I figured I'd be doing that during downtime on these doors, but they take so damn long to paint that I can pretty much start the next thing right after I was done with the last thing if I wanted to. I probably will finish 2 coats of the final paint on the backs before I quit tonight after all.

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger