My economise and I bought our prototypal concern in Feb. 2009. We’ve tackled most of the big jobs, and now we don’t have such money to keep spending on the house. However, I HATE our ’80s Stygian vegetation banister. I desired to tear it out & change it, but that seemed too participating and expensive. So I decided to smoothen it down and paint it white.

Ok, first, I used a rattling coarse poise wool pad to vanish all the polyurethane. Then I went over it with a dustlike poise wool & finally a medium grid sanding block. All of the shiny opencast is gone. I have cleaned up all the dust. I have a can of white, oil-based primer from when I painted the face door. Can I use this on the banister? And can I use white, hi-gloss latex plaint over that so the banister matches all the trim?

If anyone has any other ideas or suggestions, I’d appreciate hearing them! Thanks!