Patchwork Fillt

We’re getting closer and closer to painting. We’ll paint directly on the plaster, which looked pretty good on first look, but all the little white patches are defects which needed filling, and I’m sure there will be more we find when we mist coat these walls! The plan is to see how it looks directly…

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One down…

I did a lot more plastering over the weekend, around all our new sockets and an unnecessary trench we put above the fireplace. Pictures of all that are to come, but today I finished off my first socket! I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, for a first attempt! It will definitely need some…

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Plastamateur

We’re slowly but surely progressing towards painting the living room that I triumphantly pulled apart back in July. It’s been slow going, because any cut corners would just annoy me when it’s all finished. That’s why I spent weeks stripping all the paint off the cornice, and why we both suffered through stripping the paint…

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