Living Room

Reclaiming the beauty of the past

As we started to reclaim the old house we discovered underneath all the green paint layer after layer of old wallpaper. We attempted to remove the old wall paper but it wouldn’t budge. I scrapped the seams, removed what was lose, repaired the cracks and applied a plaster skim coat. I lightly sanded the plaster, painted a coat of Kilz, followed by a coat of flat gold, and I hand rubbed a coat of half glaze and half brown paint to achieve a Venetian Plaster look.

The beautiful old fireplace was covered with several layers of paint as well. I spent the first winter in the house stripping the paint from mantel. As the paint came off it revealed a beautiful tiger oak mantel. We installed gas logs and added a flat screen TV.