Sanding is super fun.

Sanding process close-up:

Pre- putty:

Rob rolling his eyes at annoying shelving track screws, which he was working on between painting doors, but after I goof-offed the track stickers / spilled the bottle of goof-off for the second time this week:

After a hard night of sanding away, I used up every last drop of our golden-oak wood putty on the three areas. Here’s the (old) threshold now:

So next will be another much- lighter round of sanding, then staining. Luckily we already know what stain matches- we have the leftovers we used last time at the bathroom threshold.