An Appealing Texture

We’ve already talked about texturing the walls when the kitchen was being prepared but I thought I’d show you what it looked like in the art studio and living room since they were a little more fiddly to do.
The art studio has a window, which had to be covered up. Then there was the light shelf which made the texturing a bit more awkward than just having a flat wall. Plus since we were keeping the wooden floor, that had to be covered up so it didn’t get sprayed. Before the texture dries it can be washed off but it’s messy and it's less trouble to mask what you want left untouched.

The living room was very awkward for various reasons. Again, the floor had to be covered up as well as the large window which looks out onto the back garden. The fireplace also had to be covered as we’d already started changing that (more about that next time).
We had decided not to keep the baseboards in the living room because of the changes we’d made to the doorway (we would have to patch it where we’d blocked up the doorway, plus it was quite bunged up) and we also took out the molding around the art studio entry. But we did keep the molding around the openings to the kitchen and dinning area and the crown molding along the top.
Mr. Remodel likes the molding while Mrs. R does not. So we compromised and kept some of it. But more of that another time. The molding’s bearing on this part of the work relates to the fact that we had to cover it up so it wouldn’t get sprayed. We also had to put plastic across the openings to the kitchen and dinning area, and across part of the ceiling. It all made quite a plastic squishy sound whenever you walked past it.


As soon as it dries we will be ready to start painting.