This fun short has, among plenty of advertising for Zip-Strip (which is still sold in the same design cans), great music throughout it. It's full of smooth jazz and fun lounge music.

There is one inaccuracy, however. They make stripping paint look fun and that's a chore I'd wish on no one.

Okay, if you're going to refinish furniture, don't you have to restart?

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Good little flick. The only problems I had were details. Jack -- if that is his REAL name -- is using paint stripper without proper ventilation, with a closed window *right behind him*!

Neither one of them were wearing goggles.

And Jill was spraypainting an empty frame and later a wooden chair with an open back, with nothing to protect the carpeting or surrounding stuff from stray spraying paint.

Now the REALLY funny/ironic part: I Googled the address given at the end for ordering the booklet -- that box is now assigned to the Environmental Protection Agency! LOL's abound!

A cute 1958 film but a little too idealistic to be realistic. A few important safety features are disregarded. Well acted, filmed, and directed.

Since we don't have many fix-up-around-the-house films in the archive, I found this film to be a bit of a delight, as we meet 'Jack and Jill' a lovely couple with not much money but a lot of varnish and paint remover (notice the sponsor?) to fix whatever furniture they have to make their rageed old house with descrepit into a stunning home of descrepit furniture!! :) They revarnish the old desk, make a bed into a couch (something my mom did in my old apartment) and made a perfectly good door into... something. Yaaa. Very fun to watch this chipper couple do their designs on their place actually. Reccomended!

What a delightful little film. A young couple with "more love than money" turn their crummy walk-up apartment into quite the showplace, by refinishing old furniture.

Lots of helpful tips on how to do this, and ends with telling you how to order booklets to tell you more. I can't help wonder, though, about all the fumes from paint and paint thinner in that tiny apartment.

Ends with the idea that the apartment has more individuality than if they'd just bought everything new. Hurray! Jack and Jill don't escape to the 'burbs, and they do all right.