I can imagine a thousand stories these walls might tell, but the latest would involve recounting tales of us revealing the layers with awe. This home was layered with an astonishing array of wall treatments from painted wainscoting to paper that marked every era of its past. I have a true appreciation for their durability as well, for they seem to have been holding many of the plaster walls up. After stripping the walls down to bare plaster, we had a lot of repair to do. The walls were repairable, a couple of the ceilings however were beyond help (by that I mean that one day a piece about 4 feet square came crashing down and scared the hell out of me) and needed to be sheetrocked.
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| Layers, layers, and more layers. Some rooms had six or eight, some ten... |
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| I love the soft metallic sheen on this one. |
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| After we stripped the walls and cleaned them, Ryan drilled holes around the loose areas in the plaster and injected adhesive to re-secure it, then he rough plastered and fine plastered and final plastered and...you get the picture. That part took a while. |
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| This is the room with the offending ceiling that came crashing down. It was really cool too. They had painted it red to go with the cherry wallpaper. |
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| Plaster work was finally completed in June. We sealed it up with a good primer. Should be good for another hundred years. |
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