I am inching my way closer to completion with my stairway project. We have painted walls, people! White walls can be exciting (when they are replacing dinginess). More than anything, the stairwell feels clean. And that’s a sentence I could never write before now.
I painted the walls white to bring more light into this dim space. And since I myself have a hard time not touching the walls while going up and down the steps, I assumed everyone else in the house would also be touching them. A durable semi-gloss was definitely in order.
A reminder, here’s what it looked like before we started this whole tear-down-the-wallpaper-and-why-not-the-walls-too process.
I’m just going to glaze over the part where I meticulously patched the plaster. I didn’t think you all could stand another post about ugly plaster walls. I spent way too much time trying to smooth out all the imperfections.
Safe to say that the reason these walls were probably wallpapered in the first place was because of all the cracks and unsightly bulges. I did the best I could, but some areas were just too far gone to make them completely square and level. This is an 82-year-old house, remember? And with that brings walls with bumps and lumps and a subtle wave. Just part of the charm, right? Right.
Bumps or no bumps, I am thrilled about how bright the space is becoming. I still have a lot of work ahead of me, but it’s mostly fun stuff. (That is, more painting.)
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