Interior renovation: Plaster repair and paint galore

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December 15, 2011

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During the spring and summer of 2011 we started to repair the plaster (walls and ceilings) and started to paint. ALL of the walls and ceilings were in need of repair and paint - this was not what you'd call an out-of-the-box house!

Guest room - making progress

Guest room - Post-wallpaper but pre-paint — This room also had painted wallpaper that had to be removed.

Master bedroom - painted wallpaper removal — Scraping out the painted wallpaper in the master bedroom (ugh!)

Wallpaper removal in the mint closet — That's me slaving away.

Second floor hallway radiator — After 90 years, what would we expect?

Completed closet — What a nice change. Still decided to stick with green, though.

Guest room 'After'

Newly painted guest room — All finished.

Guest room 'Before' — This is the guest room during the walkthrough.

Mint-green closet with wallpaper removed — This closet in the guest room had a lot of wallpaper painted mint-green and it was real pain to remove.

The room we now use as an office — This was taken during the walkthrough

Newly painted radiator — The 1921 radiators look almost brand new!

Completed bedroom — It's true - I didn't bother to tidy up before taking this photo. But at least the laundry on the bed is clean.

Completed bedroom — New color scheme in the master bedroom

Second floor hallway - Pre-paint

Master bedroom during painted wallpaper removal

Mint closet during wallpaper removal

Office 'Before' — What we now use as the office during the walkthrough

Blue-tape nightmare — Painting in progress

Patched plaster in the bedroom

Spray paint booth for the radiators — Owen's spray paint method of refurbishing all of the old radiators

Cracked wall in master bedroom — The plaster in the master bedroom was in especially bad shape, and needed repair.

Another view of the finished hallway

Upper hallway radiator freshly painted — Still 90 years old, but with a fresh coat of spraypaint

Upper hallway finished — Now with new paint job

Upper hallway 'Before'

Upper hallway ready for painting — In the upper hallway, the walls have been cleaned and repaired and are about ready for paint

Stairwell during scraping/painting

Newly painted office

Office 'After' — New color scheme for the office

Published December 15, 2011

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