Difficult doors

I wish I could say that everything in the house that I touched was able to be fixed, but it's just not the case. As we move forward on our renovation there are some things we are finding that are worse and more difficult to fix than we had anticipated. For example, when we first saw this bedroom, it was filled with the stuff of the former owners and we didn't take time to dig around in there. But after we cleaned it out, we found that the center of the room sags a good 2" lower than the edges. We have a lot of work ahead of us in here, and to be totally honest, I'm not sure how we will fix it.

Can we briefly touch on this amazing flooring job I found under an area rug?

Since my difficult-yet-successful door refinishing last week, I decided to take on the door that leads into what will be our kitchen. It's the same style door, same problems- old, chipping paint with a broken glass window (this one appears to have an actual bullet hole!)

lol @ the ADT sticker on a door without an operating lock

This door probably takes the cake for the grossest painted surface I've ever seen in person.

Maybe I could have made my money back by selling parts of this house off to be props in horror movies

It looks like the paint should come right off, right? I mean, it's half off already. I applied my paint remover, waited a couple hours and scraped it off to reveal--

Nothing. Nothing happened at all? It looked exactly the same, but then I looked at my scraper and found tons of dirty white paint on it. I scraped off the cracked, dirty, white paint to reveal a second, more difficult to remove layer of cracked white paint.

There's a teeeeeny bit of wood showing under the doorknob here

A day of working on this door and I only barely scratched the surface of that horrible paint. Underneath is a very dark wood stain, which is going to take another few days of work to get through.

The interior of this door is even worse. Under the white paint I found multiple layers of tan and orange oil-based paint, which are extremely hard to strip off.

This is the door that's going to be in our kitchen and I really want it to be perfect and get it down to the bare wood, so I can reseal it with Dutch oil. I'm looking at a good couple of weeks of work on this thing before it's done.