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Totally Plastered!
This weekend I finished scrubbing the walls in the front bedroom and finally got to start patching nail holes, cracks, and imperfections. For the small stuff I used this lightweight spackle stuff. It...
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I’ve made a little more progress on the walls in the front bedroom. It’s a slow process and I’m maybe working a little too meticulously. I worry that I’m trying to be a perfectionist with these...
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Still getting the hang of this plaster stuff.
I enlisted Brandon’s help this weekend in mixing plaster for me while I put it on the walls. Eventually he started putting it on the walls himself, so that part got boring, but together we finished...
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Catch up post: Kitchen, Part 1
Hello fans and followers of Our New Old House! It’s time for another quick update to bring you up to speed on what we’ve been working on the past couple months. Today’s post is about the kitchen. Lots...
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A room in which to live: the Living Room
I wanted to take a picture of this before it got painted over. The living room and dining room both had this trim around the top of the wall. I had to do a lot of plaster work in this room. I’m...
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Catching up: Kitchen part 2
Finally! Some photos of our kitchen looking closer than ever to being done! At least it looks clean and usable now. Ok time for before and after! Woo hoo! I have my kitchen back! We still have plans...
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Is there an easier way to do this?
You know how you’re supposed to caulk around woodwork and stuff to make a nice clean seal between the woodwork and the wall? Well, for once, the previous owners of this house did something right and...
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What’s my favorite kind of donut?
Glazed, of course! In my last post (A Spa for Window Sashes) I stained the window sashes and prepped them to start putting the glass panes back in. That process is called glazing, hence my stupid donut...
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Plaster Takes Finesse.
I don’t have any finesse. But I did manage to get more plaster on the ceiling than on my face. Here’s the scratch coat. I’ll do one more rough layer and then a smooth top coat. This is one of those...
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Turning a Corner
The walls on Our New Old House separated when the house settled. When we removed the wallpaper cracks as wide as an inch were revealed where the corners should have been. As I dug out the cracks to...
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