PREPPIN' & MUDDIN' THE WALLS

It’s time to bring in the professionals for this one… hanging sheet rock on the ceilings and muddin’ the plaster walls. As seen in the house tour, there is wallpaper on all the ceilings. Decisions, decisions on whether to scrape all the wallpaper off (not knowing what type of condition they are in) or hire someone to hang dry wall over it? The ceilings are 9 foot so I didn’t think a ½” would matter, still have the same affect, and I could tell the ceilings were wavy with the wallpaper. That would have taken a lot of time and labor to mud all the ceilings and try to make it smooth. So sheet rock is going up!  Now, muddin’ the walls..first, they taped off all the large cracks with drywall tape. Then applied drywall mud to smooth out any holes or cracks and imperfections in the wall.

 

DINING ROOM

MASTER BEDROOM



MASTER CLOSET

GUEST BEDROOM

HALLWAY

In the kitchen when I popped off the tiles, the plaster was very weak it started to just crumble and created large holes. With large holes, it is better to dry wall over it than to mud it, especially in the kitchen, because the cabinets need a secured wall to drill in to. Also, when taking out the bulkhead in the kitchen, we needed to fill and patch in drywall there since the kitchen already had dry wall on the ceiling when it was renovated in the 1950s.

Since there was hardly any lighting in this house, I added 22 new recessed can lights. Ah finally, There is light!!!!

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