The dining room we tore apart to renovate finally looks like a room again. After finishing the mudding and taping of sheetrock, which I discussed in last week’s post, we moved right on to priming and painting the room. We used a Wagner paint sprayer to apply the primer to the ceiling and walls. And by “we,” I mean mostly my husband Erik. I read the detailed instructions to him while he monkeyed with the…
From hanging the sheetrock, to taping and mudding it, we are making excellent progress on the dining room. And when I say “we,” I really mean Erik. Aside from helping hold up a couple of sheets of drywall so he could get the screws started and cutting a few pieces, I didn’t do much in the four days it took him to hang it all. When it comes to taping and mudding, I know better…
Work continues on our dining room renovation project. Since my last post on the topic, we have taken out all the plaster and lath. In fact, that dirty job ended up being a bit bigger than we expected. Some of the lath along the south wall went behind the front wall of the closet. As Erik attempted to remove it, plaster inside the closet fell off the wall. We didn’t intend to redo the closet,…