Wood Restoration, Part II

The final product of the effort restoring the wood in our mudroom was that we uncovered the original redwood under all the crummy paint that had been added over the years.  We then stained the wood to bring out more color.

We highly recommend Kushi, the painter who did this work (and painted our son's room) -- Arkenstone Painting in Oakland.

Here's the end result as it looks today:

The bedroom door has a little monkey hangar on it:

 Here are two attempts to show the wood close up (with and without the flash).  We used a cherry stain: