Reuse, Recycle, Rejoice!!!

Greg pulled off individual Wainscot 1x4 beadboard that appears to be around most of the house under the chair rail. These were covered in layers of paint and will have to be individually cleaned, soaked with paint remover and scraped. We plan on repainting them and reusing them in the main area of the house. Beadboard at the home improvement stores comes in sheets, so the individual boards show the age of the materials.

On the back left corner, 1x6 lapboards were individually stacked. These are two different styles of the same treatment. The lapboards are in better shape and have less layers of paint. After pulling the sheet rock from the kitchen ceiling original beadboard sheeting covered that one area. Our hope is to reuse all of these materials. It's economical and important in keeping with the original flavor of the cottage.

For now, we have these materials stacked inside in a back corner of the house out of the way. We are quickly seeing that storage of materials is going to be an issue. Anything that can be put outside in the back yard without being harmed, we are arranging carefully and covering with a tarp putting them up off the ground.