living room

We had waited a month for possesion of the house but the time had finally came when we picked up the keys from our lawyer. We owned a house. A big house. A house that had been build in 1974 and was in need of some help.

As we walked around our house thinking about how we would like to decorate and move in we noticed a bad spot in the ceiling of the living room. It looked as though someone had tried to repair a water damaged spot. It was so bad that the decision to take the ceiling out and investigate was easily made. Before moving anything in the ceiling came out. Good thing too. After the messy removal of the stucco plaster and loose insulation we discovered that a couple of the supporting 2 X 8 's were rotted. It was obvious that at some point this house had a very bad leak and the roof had been fixed but the damage had not been fixed properly. So we bought some 2 X 8 's and glued and screwed them to the damaged ones before fixing the strapping, insulating and putting up new drywall.

The living room had origianl crown molding made of plaster and we liked it so we tried our best to keep it. This proved to increase the work involved but the end product was worth it. We had to cut around the ehole perimeter of the crown molding with a recipricating saw to make a clean edge for the drywall to be fastened and then plastered. The room is roughly 13 feet by 26 feet so this was a big job. Throughout this we tried our best not to wreck the hardwood floor.

After hours of plastering and sanding we finally were able to paint. We decided on painting the walls peppertree and leaving the ceiling white and painting all of the trimm a semi gloss white.