Then I Remembered There Was a Blog

Well. It's been... roughly 14 months since I updated this blog. So that happened.

A lot has happened since last summer, and some of it was even at the farmhouse. I'm not even sure where we left off with this thing...

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Ok. The automatic backing up of my phone to Google photos tells me that about the time of my last post, my lovely sister came out to visit for a week to help with some farm projects. That's actually kind of a perfect starting point, because one of the main projects we worked on was removing, repairing, reglazing, and reinstalling the window in the upstairs bedroom.

Sister. Destruction. Nothing to see here.

Why is this a perfect starting point? Because what we actually achieved on the window project was just the removing, repairing, and reglazing. And just this past weekend, Chris and I fully reinstalled the window. Yes, over a year later. Don't judge.

In between, we did a lot of other things to this room. Not things that make it actually finished, but things that make it look less like it did in the picture above and more like this.

All the walls are the same color. Progress.

This actually isn't even a totally updated photo, but it gets the point across. It definitely looked even worse before it got better, though. When you put paneling up over plaster, and you drive a bunch of nails into said plaster, those nails don't leave dainty little holes like they might in drywall. Combine that with 100+ years of existence, and you get plaster that was a bit on the sad side. Not as sad as we initially feared, but definitely in need of some love... and a LOT of patching.

So much patching.

This was followed by a lot of priming. The ceiling took two coats of paint to go from mustard yellow to normal ceiling white. Fortunately, my mom volunteered a day to come help us out, and she took care of the first coat of paint. The walls and ceiling were so dry that they just sucked up paint, so even just priming the room felt like it took forever.

Chris takes a turn priming.

For now, the room is still sitting in primer. The ceiling is finished, and the window is back in its casing -- now with all the trim pieces reinstalled! Wallpaper has been purchased, and the guide-lines are set on the walls for easy (knock on wood) wallpaper installation. Right now, that project is just awaiting slightly cooler weather (or a rainy day when we can't be working outside). So, hang some wallpaper on the top halves of the walls, install some wainscotting on the lower parts of the walls, paint the trim, install the light fixture, paint and install the door... we're (not even a little bit) practically finished!

More posts to come. I promise.