And for the forseeable I will be mostly....

[inulro]

trying to figure out how to get everything out of my computer room so I can spruce it up. I need to strip the wallpaper and paint, which I could in theory do in portions, but then I I will be having the floor done, for which the room will need to be empty, so I might as well do it all at once.

Logic dictates that this house isn't big enough to empty out a whole room. I suspect that the key lies in chucking out the desk (wobbly & on its last legs anyway) and storing my computer under the dining room table for a while & making do with my laptop.

This is all brought on by the fact that I have found someone I trust to do the floor (co-worker's husband) and it makes more sense to do the walls first. Apparently he's quite busy at the moment so I have no idea of timescales, but I also have no idea how long it's going to take to do the walls - if the plaster's really awful I'll have to get someone in to hang more paper before I can paint.

When that's done I'll be wanting to turn one of the alcoves into a proper floor-to-ceiling closet so that I can store 3 x as much stuff in that area & look tidier as well.

I'd post before and after pix but it's too embarrassingly awful for public consumption as it is.

Comments

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I was pleasantly surprised how cheap a plasterer was, so if your walls are crap getting them repapered may not be your only option. I was charged £210 plus VAT (£245 total) for one day's work, which involved replastering two really nasty bits and skimming some more. I didn't have the whole room done, but it is a really big room, so probably equivalent to having one small, straightforward room done. (I had beams replastered, and an awkward sticking out corner.)

[inulro.livejournal.com]

How did you find painting over the plaster? The one time I stripped off wallpaper and painted straight on to the (80+ years old) plaster, even though I'd painted on a layer of wallpaper paste first as advised by co-workers, the first coat soaked straight into the wall and I ended up having to do two coats of Dulux Once.

I hate wallpaper but I'd rather not go through that again.

[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

I haven't got any old plaster left to paint now, it was all skimmed apart from one small patch above a door which I haven't tried yet. The bits I have painted straight onto plaster so far have been fine, but I'm using clay paint and it's meant to be very good for painting directly onto plaster.