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Walls!

In a 100 year old House, Painting projects are not just painting projects. In our case, painting involves stripping, washing, patching gaping holes and floor to ceiling cracks, priming, patching again and then finally painting. Good quality paint seems to make a huge difference, too. It provides better coverage and fills in some of the imperfections as opposed to highlighting them.



This past weekend was devoted to getting the walls ready for painting process. This is the former strange brown pre- wall board wall (you can see it to the left). There is some sort of plaster powder between the paper. Maybe this is early dry wall? Maybe this was some sort of crazy creation of past owners? It has certainly complicated the process.




I troweled on compound to create a smooth and paintable surface (you can see it to the left). Mr. Ham House sanded it smooth before the troweling because it was covered with textured brown paper. The visual improvement to the stairway is amazing. The dark brown paper made you feel like you were entering a cave. I'm thinking it should take one or two more sandings and coats and we should be ready to prime and paint. Wow!



The other big project was washing walls and finishing off the never ending wallpaper stripping. Washing paste is thankless, but so important. I wanted to avoid the mess paint makes when it softens wallpaper paste that I thought was fossilized on the wall in other rooms....


A few walls unearthed between seven and eight layers of wallpaper! It was like tracking the history of the house! Ham House Mom was unfortunate and lucky enough to have this messy job. She was the resident archaeologist for the weekend, which meant strange mess of disintegrating wallpaper and the amazing patterns below. We were able to catch a glimpse of what the bottom layer looked like.



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