Can of Worms

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When we had the alley door replaced earlier this year, they removed a chunk of the door frame where the old lock used to be. I finally repaired it with a filler piece, but it had to be painted to match everything.

Long story short, when I started scraping the flaking away paint around the area so it would be smooth for the new coat, the rest of the paint started effortlessly peeling away. Removing one piece ended up lifting its neighbor, so on and so forth. Now I’m in a situation where I am stripping the entire door frame down to its raw wood finish.

While this is obviously a nice way to extract more character from the originality of the house, it’s also a task I didn’t foresee doing, and I cannot help but think I’ve opened a can of worms for myself rather than fixed a problem.

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