Closing In On A Finish Here

Christmas was tsunami of loneliness, PMS and sadness. So I tackled the rest of the wall. One more layer of drywall compound, sanding, and paint give us the above result--you can see in the 2nd photo there's a bit of a bump. Not the best result, but it will do. It's better than having a two foot crack forming an x-y axis with additional cracks that would make a geometry student cry over its slope. The bump is due to the fact that we had this weird layer of chicken wire-like stuff on the wall. I later figured out that part of the wall had its original plaster repaired--the plasterer would have nailed this stuff to the lathe to provide a base for the layers of new plaster that matched up to the old. You can see some of it in the pictures of our excavation.

I start on the trim tomorrow.

And did I mention my washing machine broke on Christmas too? Geez Louise!