I did it. I stripped (most of) the woodwork.
I’ve posted a couple of times over the course of winter and early spring about my paint stripping efforts on our 1913 Craftsman and figured I would share the end result.
I stripped: 5.5 doors (all the interior doors in the house except the inside of one closet door), the trim on all the doors, the hall built-in cabinet and drawers, and all the hardware for all of that (which was also painted over a million times)
I started in December and wrapped up in April, doing work on nights and weekends as time allowed.
All in all it was very tedious and I questioned my choices a lot. Would I recommend it? Not sure. But I love the end result, so I can’t say I regret it. I know had we gone with 1) another paint layer or 2) new cheap doors, I wouldn’t be as happy.
And before anyone comments: yes, I’m sure this was all exposed (shellacked) wood originally and yes I wore PPE and took precautions to mitigate lead paint exposure.