Day 2 Painting

No truly exciting pictures to post; we did a lot of plastering (OK, Cousin T did most of that) and priming, scraping walls smooth, generally getting the rooms ready for today. I hope we'll have the red room ("Red room! Red room!"...Simpsons reference...anyway...) and the kitchen done by the end of the day today. We barely watched any football--that's how busy we were. What does that tell you?? I just hope we don't have to open too many windows today to get rid of fumes, since we'll hit a whopping high of 20 degrees without wind chill. Clearly global warming has not affected my area lately.

Painting Pictures!

Stage 1: steaming off old wallpaper in the kitchen

Clearly it's good to have a tall person working on this

This was fun: This is the scoring tool I used to put tiny

holes in the wallpaper so the steam could get through.

It's called a Piranha!

Consider this a "before" picture; I hadn't even scored the
wallpaper yet but T had begun peeling.

The steamer
Stage 2: the wall post-steaming, ready for plaster and tools
to scrape the excess off
The original wallpaper and wall, found behind
the refrigerator. Very circa 1940s

As I wrote before, so many colors!

Stage 3: plastering the back room. Again, the wallpaper
was so tightly on, we didn't even bother to steam it off.

My sisters decreed that T could not call this the "man room"
until he got rid of the wallpaper; they call it the "granddad room".

Front hallway, plastered as needed in all the rough spots.
To get biblical, we had to "make the rough places plain".

Stage 4: First coat of paint on T's room! Quite a difference, yes?

We'll put another coat on today, and I think we'll also get the kitchen painted. Since we'll have a good chunk of Heirloom Red left over, we also plan to paint the tiny quarter bathroom that color. If you want to remember what the old parts looked like in full, click here, but I'll do before and after photos when it's all finished.