Inspired by Smart Red, thought you'd like to see...

[ducks4you]

After 2 years of promises DD's FINALLY moved all of the stuff out of the bedroom that they PROMISED would be DH's new home office. He likes to work on his novels and play the same computer game, "Civilization". This bedroom is a 2nd floor dormer and faces due North. You cannot paint the walls and the ceiling because they merge. ANYway, the finally got to it last month. MY job was to remove the pink wallpaper with hearts. My other DD was my hero bc she has permanently lent me her wall paper remover. It super heats up water and you slowly pass it over the wallpaper. By the time I got to the last wall I was a pro and the wallpaper, put up to cheat and not fix the cracked plaster by a previous owner, was coming off just like it went on, in full sheets. This is what it looked like when it was time to repair the cracks.

They used that plaster repair stuff that goes on pink and dries white. Both DD's sanded and washed the walls. Then it took 2 days to prime and paint. They got this primer that can also be used outside and on bricks and it REALLY, REALLY covered well.

DH chose "Alaskan Blue" for the final coat. It was Dutch Boy paint and it, too, had both paint and primer in it. This is how well THAT covered.

This was the finished product. I will need to take a shot of the furniture in there. We still don't have curtains up yet, but I have winterizing of the "suicide windows" to do first.

 

[aftermidnight]

Great job, well done.

Annette

 

[Nyboy]

Very nice looks like no one painted the wood work. I would love to have your doors in my house. Do they have original doorknobs ?

 

[seedcorn]

Nice

 

[thistlebloom]

Looks good. Love the woodwork.

 

[ducks4you]

@Nyboy, yes the doorknobs are original. I love it that the doors have pins, AND that you can shut off rooms and the upstairs from the downstairs. The only thing that is unusual is the bedroom that is now my office has/had no door. You just enter it from the hallway.
This is the 2nd oldest farmhouse in this town, a little bit over 100yo. We know the owners of the original farmhouse, and theirs was built in the 1890's. We are the fourth owner of this house, the first was a farmer, the second farmed, retired, sold off all but 5 acres and fattened 5 steer/year for sale as his retirement business. His original fencing went to the street.
This house mostly works, but we have had electrical repairs and I need to call RotoRooter to clear 1/3 sewage lines, the leach field that the kitchen sink and the washer drain to. (The bathroom drains to a septic, and the downstairs sink and shower drain to a cistern.
Right now my kitchen/washer drain is largely unusable. I'm pretty sure that it is bc of limescale buildup. Should be cleared out in a few days, but in the near future we want a plumber to reroute them to drain into the septic, too. I think, by code, they are supposed to anyway.
Good thing DD's up the road have a "laundermat" available for our use. ha, ha

 

[Nyboy]

Plumping and electrical down side to a old house

 

[Smart Red]

Plumbing and electrical -- bathrooms and kitchens. Yup, they're the most likely and most expensive updates needed. Luckily, "You can do anything with plastic pipe" (spousal quote he soon regretted and I never forgot) and that new pex-pipe is even better to use than anything we had back in the day.

 

[Smart Red]

Great job, Ducks! And thank you for the before and after shots. Yup, those slanted walls are the pits to paint. We either paint the whole room as you've done or we make a line inches lower than the slant and make that a dividing line -- often with a small accent trim along the line.

 

[ducks4you]

Great job, Ducks! And thank you for the before and after shots. Yup, those slanted walls are the pits to paint. We either paint the whole room as you've done or we make a line inches lower than the slant and make that a dividing line -- often with a small accent trim along the line.

Great idea! Might use that when I get around to the East Dormer room, my sewing room.