Posts tagged ‘skimming’

We always joke that each room renovation in the last 22 months has been done a little better than the last. Which means that once we’re done with everything, we’ll have to start over where we began. Because we learn as we go and our standards and knowledge change as we take on projects. Which [...]

Progress is chugging along on the room I’m supposed to call the nursery, which still sounds a little weird to me. Maybe that’s because of the years I’ve spent in church where there’s always a “nursery,” which always means a room full of noisy, hyperactive  lovely little kids. This is a room for one child. Whom [...]

Here are the pictures I promised from the second bedroom project. Here’s the biggest wall in the room, from the scraping to the skimming to the priming. All that’s left to do on this wall now is adding the receptacle in the baseboard, the new baseboards and trim, and paint. We still haven’t chosen the [...]

Unfortunately, I don’t have any of the more recent pictures handy uploaded that make this post more enjoyable to read. Who wants to read 800 words about tedious projects without getting to see the gratifying before/after pictures? The one person who is still reading at the end of this post, that’s who. (You’ll have to [...]

Two nights, all wallpaper and paint removed on 2.5 walls out of 4 in the master bedroom. Up next, a lesson in sanding and skimming walls from our friend Chuck to get them ready to paint. We’ll hopefully have the walls in here ready to paint by the middle of next week, and then at [...]