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October 21, 2005
Behind the Textured Walls
After getting our power restored, and having the itch to get this place into shape, Brian decided to see how easy it was to remove the awful texture on the walls. It had been placed by the previous owner, which once we get into scraping off the texture we learned why he slapped it on there. The texture is so thick and pointy in some spots it will actually cut you. We have always hated it. Its not your usual texture but very ugly grains running up and down the walls. It is quite gruesome in my eyes. Well once we started we found it was a cinch with the right tools, which was a lathe tool actually. Here a detail of the before and after texture on the walls:
We discovered the living room was once green, which funny enough is what I have it as, as well. Not a surprise though since the floors had green and white tiles from the 1960's. Anyway once we got to the top of the wall we find this:
Yeah! Instead of dropping the wires and fishing for them, our previous owner knocked out a whole in the wall and made it easier for him to feed the wires. Well once finished he completed the hole by stuffing fabric batting (yep the stuff your mom used to make those little strawberry shortcake fabric dolls) into the hole and patched over with some sheetrock tape and putty/texture. Lovely.
We did end up finding another hole, where he had mistakenly cut an outlet hole in the wrong place. Once again a cover job was used, though he must have ran out of the fabric batting this time.
Our plans will be to fix the holes, properly and no fabric batting this time. Then smooth the wall & then paint it. It took us not even an entire day to take out one half of the wall, and that was mostly because Brian had to run an errand and I am a slow poke at physical work.
