That I, one Snout by name, present a wall.
FIRST -- BEFORE PICS. Here is the wall when we bought the house -- it's the wall in the back, through the arch, covered in plaster, awful wallpaper, and (shudder) baby blue trim.
Here is the wall after the plaster had been chipped away. As I said in my last post, it was like this for months.
Here is the wall now:
And with the dining set moved out of the way:
I still obviously need to prime and paint the trim, and I need baseboard and crown molding (which I can't put up until I've sorted out threading another wire into that light switch). But there it is. Got me some pride.
Here is the wall after the plaster had been chipped away. As I said in my last post, it was like this for months.
Here is the wall now:
And with the dining set moved out of the way:
I still obviously need to prime and paint the trim, and I need baseboard and crown molding (which I can't put up until I've sorted out threading another wire into that light switch). But there it is. Got me some pride.
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posted by Mormolyke at
23:42
7 Comments:
And it looks way tops, kudos you. Keep it up and one day you'll have your very own home improvement show on TV. You ARE Shirley Strachan. Except without the whole 'being in Skyhooks' and/or 'fatally stacking helicopter' bit.
How obscure was THAT for your 90s Strayan TV references?
Anyway you've got me covered in the DIY stakes - I'm such a girly (handy)man I'm fretting about sanding, sealing and repainting a couple of Lucas-installed dents/paintchips in a door before we think about selling in the next year or so. So much so that I'm going to Belgium for a week so I don't have to think about. And for the soapy beer. Mmmm, soapy beer. Better than Belgium's only other exports, chocolate and pedophiles (according to Eddie Izzard.)
Hey if you can replace waterdamaged floorboards as well there's a job over here for you, we need to fix some flooring before we get some new lino in. Pay's shit (and would probably be in beer or red) but we can probably put you up for a couple days...
Wow, looks fantastic. You should really post links to where you get your information from. Would be useful.
No information was gathered in the form of words or pictures for this project! All I did was look at other exposed brick walls IRL and read the label on the sealer. I guess I already knew how to grout from when I tiled the bathroom and kitchen, and I probably learned that using this book, but other than that, it was all done using logic, instinct and a broken heart.
Surprisingly enough, James, I have experience replacing water damaged floorboards -- I've done it a couple of times in this house. (One set of water-damaged boards was bad enough that we had to rip up the entire floor and repair the water-damaged joists beneath, though that was not a solo effort.) This would be an airfare-included job, right?
Belgium is only a six-hour flight from the East Coast USA. You could practically make it a day trip.
Also, I have no idea about the helicopter line, but I feel compelled to mention that when I was 14, I had what can only in retrospect be described as a mullet perm.
OMG I said teh linez of t eh play that u put at the top off the msg!!!111!1!!
Wikipedia sez:
Strachan was killed in a helicopter accident on 29 August 2001. He had been a keen student pilot, and had been undergoing training for a helicopter pilot's licence. On his second solo flight in Queensland in stormy weather, Strachan strayed off course and entered a mountain lee. The powerful air currents at the base of the mountain threw his helicopter onto its back, and it crashed inverted into the forest. Strachan's neck was broken and he died instantly. He was aged 49.
Good lord, I had completely blocked that from my memory.
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