Green Room

We have titled some of our rooms, in the same way that presidents and kings have in the past. Its very imaginative and totally practical. Hence: the green room.

(Side note for this whole blog: we do not claim to be experts, and we are learning as we go along on this journey, so some jobs are not done just once...unfortunately.)

The green room was another room the appraiser had taken pictures of and wanted us to fix. Therefore, it was another one that we wanted to get done before she came back to reappraise the house.

Obviously, yes, it needs painted. But can you see all the plaster cracks too? That was what really concerned her. 

Every wall was riddled with spider cracks. 

So we re-plastered the walls, re-caulked the windows, fixed cracks in the ceiling, and nearly broke our backs. And then the fun part came: sanding the walls. I kinda hate prepping walls to be painted because of this step. Its long, tedious, and super dusty. Even with drop cloths down, you still have to sweep and mop the floors ten times afterward. But, if you are going to do the job, try to do it right the first time.

Here is the room with freshly painted walls and ceiling! The floor has been swept 3x at this point, but not yet mopped. Trim is still not yet done in this room. We were just trying to do the walls to pass the appraisal so we could get the house. (It passed the next week.) Then, we started moving boxes into this room, since it was "mostly done." So trim will come in the spring...maybe.

Anyway, good bye cracks! Or so we thought, hence the disclaimer at the top. Some of these cracks have since reappeared, so we are going to have to rethink our strategy on these walls. Good thing is, we still have some paint left to recover the cracks we patch. But we really would prefer not to repaint rooms every 3 months.