We're back from vacation and hard at work again.
Kathy has completely stripped all the wallpaper from our ground-floor dining room. To our surprise, the room had never been painted. Once the wallpaper was off we were looking at bare plaster. And it was in pretty good shape, too, with only a few small cracks and imperfections. By far the worst damage was from the nail holes and screw fittings that people had added afterwards. The plaster itself is remarkably smooth and even. Whoever did that work 120 years ago, you have my compliments.
The one exception is a round spot about waist-high on one wall that happens to sit behind our liquor cabinet. It's oddly colored, like it was maybe patched at one time, and it's got a few cracks radiating out from it. After taking this photo, I realized it creates kind of a tacky, faux Mediterranean still life, like something you'd see for sale in the thrift shop next to pictures of crying clowns.
Now that the walls are all bare, the room is a lot lighter. Much better than the red color that used to be there. We haven't decided yet whether to paint the walls or paper them. If we paint, it would be the first time for this room. If we paper, at least now we've got a clean and well-prepared surface to work with.
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