Painting

I spent most of July painting. It all started one day in late June when I decided to clean behind a cabinet in the entryway. I pulled it out and found this behind it. I decided it was time to do more than try to clean old wallpaper.

Next step: peel off the wallpaper.

When James got home, he decided that the whole area needed to be skim-coated with plaster before I repainted.

Then, I decided to do the rest of the room. On the opposite side, in an area set off from the rest of the room, this is what I found. When we moved her, there was a water heater in the corner where there are slits in the wall. A couple of years later, it started to leak, and obviously, all that water went up into the wall. James pulled all the old gib board off, since it was so moldy.

This is what we found behind the gib board! This corner must have been outside the house at one time. I like the shade of blue! He filled the walls in with new gib left over from jobs, and then plastered the seams when he skim coated the rest of the room.

While I was waiting for that to be done, I decided to tackle the kitchen. The paint job in there has been bothering me for a year or two already, and there were a lot of holes that needed to be filled in. James ended up spending several evenings plastering those holes. The ceiling used to be the same blue as the walls; I decided to change it to white, but keep the blue for the walls.

I really like the way it turned out. It feels a lot brighter, and much, much cleaner now.

Finally, this past week we finished what we wanted to do in the entryway. We moved the fridge and cabinet to a different wall, and swapped the coats to the opposite wall from where they had been. James built a shelf for the coffee machine, and another boy built shelves for shoes. I got to paint both of those. We’re loving the new look and layout!