Renovation update: Those aren't vines
I did some work over the weekend in the girls' room, getting the walls and ceiling ready for painting. A big step in the process is dealing with plaster cracks. Our old house has plaster and lath walls and ceilings, which are great - they're durable as all get out, and fairly soundproof too. However, as the house breathes from season to season, and as it inevitably settles down on its foundation, we get cracks in the wall.
My job this weekend was to make those cracks bigger, so that I can then make them disappear. This is how things looked by Sunday afternoon:
(That hole in the wall is the heating/cooling vent.)
Every member of my family walked into the room at some point and said, "Whoa! Why are you making the cracks bigger!" Nick thought they looked like vines on the wall - not such a stretch, since there's already a rose vine border painted up one corner of the room.
This coming weekend I'll be finishing up the crack work, and doing some repairs to the hardwood floor. No more squeaks!
My job this weekend was to make those cracks bigger, so that I can then make them disappear. This is how things looked by Sunday afternoon:
(That hole in the wall is the heating/cooling vent.)
Every member of my family walked into the room at some point and said, "Whoa! Why are you making the cracks bigger!" Nick thought they looked like vines on the wall - not such a stretch, since there's already a rose vine border painted up one corner of the room.
This coming weekend I'll be finishing up the crack work, and doing some repairs to the hardwood floor. No more squeaks!
