Day 239: Masters of plaster

To put things into context, these walls have seen through 2 world wars and been metres away from German bombs (literally dropping on the doorstep). No surprise that they've seen better days. But no worries, things are looking up for our kitchen walls.

A little TLC and they will look great once again.

First the corners around the door frames, if you can still call them that since there was little corner left in them. I needed to strip them back to pretty much brick to get a straight edge. I used some rough corner beads to build back the corner shape - being careful to keep the edge straight and plumb. Given that the door jam was somewhat slanted, I don't think it would have been geometrically possible to get all sides even - or that's the story and I'm sticking to it. Anyway, it's close and I challenge anybody coming over to tell me otherwise.

I even managed to get Care getting her hands dirty. Stripping away wallpaper. This time we had a textured floral print both in the natural and pastel blue forms .. and some nice ducky wallpaper.

I also tackled the back wall where the 900 range is going. Turns out, that was where the original range was before somebody had the bright idea of relocating it. (shaking head). Anyway, the wall was completely uneven, part un plastered and part poorly plastered. No problem for the masters of plaster. A little bonding coat to get the surface even-ish. And some finish coat to get a nice smooth finish. Well nice enough to be hidden by tile later on :)