Baby Room, sanded walls

Baby Room, sanded walls

Image by Qole Pejorian
(This is the first picture of two. There's now an after picture as well.)

The walls and ceiling in the baby room were a disaster. They were terribly rough and lumpy, with big holes and cracks everywhere, and they had 5 layers of wallpaper interspersed with countless coats of paint...

So rather than throw a layer of drywall over everything, we decided to sand off all the irregularities and then fill the holes.

Well, that worked for three of the walls, and the ceiling. The fourth wall, of which you can only see a small piece on the left of the picture, started peeling, and soon I (and later, my father) had to chip off all of the wallpaper and paint, right down to the bare plaster, which saw the daylight for the first time since the late 1920's.

The majority of the work was required around two giant patches, where two big (probably beautiful) windows were removed (maybe in the 70's?) and then patched over by a blind monkey. When the sander hit the plaster patching (the white areas), the clouds of dust that came off of it made it impossible to see in the room for several minutes.

I've been here before. Many of the rooms in our house have patched over windows.

I would not recommend anyone do this. It was only after I sanded the old walls flat that I did some research and discovered that there's an excellent possibility that I put some lead dust (from old, pre-1978 leaded paint) into the air by doing this. I was wearing a respirator, and we were meticulous about clean up, but despite vaccuuming with a hepa filter, mopping everything, etc, we still are worried about the lead dust...

baby room decor

Image by reebob
finally hung our pictures, and the scary bunnyheads. now we just need the baby.

Young Me

Image by Great Beyond
Awww, what a cute baby picture! A picture of me, from about - I would guess - 1970 or thereabouts.

Gulag

Image by Qole Pejorian
A companion picture for the baby room picture. See that one for the full novel. (There's now an after picture as well)

When I hit the Auto Equalize button, it produced this cool, artsy, grainy, high-contrast image. I have a much better adjusted version of this pic, where the colours are more "gentle" and "warm", but I like this one better. The harsh colours seem to go well with the bars on the window.

Yes, that's right. Bars. On the window. This isn't rural Kansas, eh? But there were bars on other windows too.

Those big, old windows would have been so nice. Why did they take them away?