Day 3 of painting

The TV is reconnected and so now we have heard about the hurricane coming to the Bahamas and east coast of the US and the earthquakes that rocked the US in the east and west. We did not feel the earthquake at all here in Rural Retreat.

Yesterday I tried some new things with tomatoes - roasted some (have good flavor, but not sure I will use that recipe again and made tomato basil soup which I have not yet tasted.  Nelson finished coating/re-sealing the driveway and garage floor - it's been a several day project. Spent the evening and this morning putting things back in the TV room. Still need to have the bookshelves (normally behind the door which hold my cookbooks and other books (which as Nelson says, no one looks at) put back up. He promises to do it, but is off playing golf right now.

The workman are going to do the upstairs back bedroom today. Once we moved all the furniture from the walls, I was kind of shocked to see what bad condition the walls are in.  Can't really get a picture to show you, but the lathe actually can be seen behind the plaster in a lot of places. Also many cracks in the plaster and there was some old water damage (see picture) where paint peeled and ceiling was stained. Interestingly to me, when they took the peeling paint off, behind the pink there is greenish yellow (celery maybe?) and behind that a dark grey-blue. Definitely a long time since it was painted. Like downstairs, the window sill has little paint left on it. The rest of the woodwork in here (except for some paneling) is all stained walnut. They are going to try to make the paneling look more walnut color, we'll see how that works. We have same idea for the woodwork in the upstairs hallway that is also a light color so doesn't even remotely match the other woodwork. They caulked the cracks and then sanded; hope that works. Don't want to ruin the "ambience" and historic value of the house by correcting the entire situation. - really don't want to spend the amount of money that redoing the walls entirely would entail. J

 Before pictures:

Paneling in pink bedroom

Pink bedroom

Hallway closet

Water damaged wall and ceiling

Afterwards, it's no longer pink, now "Cream in my coffee" - can still see the lathe but not the cracks ;  haven't put everything back yet but will before my sister arrives next week.  They still need to finish the woodwork by the window. The other woodwork isn't darkening very well;  we'll discuss if worth doing any more work on that tommorrow.

ceiling and walls completed