last weekend it was time to plaster the final wall in the downstairs living room.
mathew sands the plaster used for filling holes.
say good bye to the modern art…
plaster begins. and voila! [there are no “during” photos because i was running around fetching water, mixing plaster, rearranging the ladder and platform, and scraping buckets… but we’ve done this so many times now that you get the idea…]
(left) touch-up plaster on the ceiling and above the picture rails. (right) the window trim i stripped and sanded last weekend.
more trim stripping.
mathew attaches the window trim.
(left) and even more trim stripping. (right) window trim in place and a reflective new plaster wall (to the left of the window.) you probably don’t know it, but this small bit of wall, to the right of the window, is possibly our most dramatic change in the entire house so far. there had been a leak at the upper right of this window, causing water to leak into the wall (for years?) that eventually broke through the plaster leaving a huge ugly hole. of course i don’t have any “before” photos… but if i did you would be seriously amazed by the change that has taken place. either way, mathew did a really great job on the repairs and the new plaster in this room.