My in-laws are planning on putting the house back on the market this month, so we've been working hard to get it ready to show. We've gone through boxes of stuff, put things in storage and one of our more recent projects has been re-doing the small upstairs bedroom.
It used to be my husband's younger sister's room when they were growing up, but until recently it's been a catch all for random stuff, and it was where we were storing our boxes of stuff that we moved out from California.
We rented a wallpaper steamer and found ourselves peeling 4 or 5 layers of wallpaper off the walls before getting to the plaster. (It kind of reminded me of our time in Spain because one of the projects some of the guys did to the blue room).
We found a part of the wall that looked like it had at one point been a window before they added on to the house, and they had patched it up with a different kind of plaster then the original walls (notice the slightly lighter color and sheen to the patched up wall above). On the same wall someone had written their name and the date most likely when they patched the wall, or put wall paper over it. This is a very old house, among the others in Lincoln... it's neat to see little pieces of history in even your own house.
This is how far we got... my husband and father in law are putting up a new ceiling with drywall because the old plaster ceiling had cracked in an area and was starting to come down.
I can't wait to show you what it looks like when it's all done. We are going to convert this room into a nursery/toddler room which will be perfect for our little nephew when he comes to visit.
