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…
Busy, busy, busy. Now that the tearing apart phase of our dining room renovation is finished, we’ve been spending the past couple of weeks on the putting together phase. After the building inspector okayed the tear-down and framing part of the job, which had us inserting a few extra two-by-fours in corners so we’d have something to attach sheetrock to, we got right on putting up insulation. We also used spray foam around the windows,…
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,…