Hi everyone!
I not-so-long ago moved into a house that is just about 100 years old. Well it was in pretty beat-up shape, and we've been working on it just about non-stop.
The one family room area has a cloudy green carpet with MINT and forest green walls that are feather-dusted. They are HORRIBLE! The window trim and floor-moulding is all really beat up and dinged up wood, also. We plan on doing something with the room, but we think the reason the walls are so ugly is because they are in pretty bad shape and the people probably just threw something up to cover them.
They have dings, dents, bumps, little holes, just about everything the walls aren't supposed to have. We recently realized that a power-sander just won't work.... it tears
hunks of plaster off the walls and just makes them worse.
What would you all suggest? We thought about filling them in and then sanding them down, then repainting. We also thought about doing some sort of a textured wall treatment so that it hides the bad stuff.
We just aren't sure what the best thing is!
Thanks in advance!
Cashmere
I not-so-long ago moved into a house that is just about 100 years old. Well it was in pretty beat-up shape, and we've been working on it just about non-stop.
The one family room area has a cloudy green carpet with MINT and forest green walls that are feather-dusted. They are HORRIBLE! The window trim and floor-moulding is all really beat up and dinged up wood, also. We plan on doing something with the room, but we think the reason the walls are so ugly is because they are in pretty bad shape and the people probably just threw something up to cover them.
They have dings, dents, bumps, little holes, just about everything the walls aren't supposed to have. We recently realized that a power-sander just won't work.... it tears
hunks of plaster off the walls and just makes them worse.
What would you all suggest? We thought about filling them in and then sanding them down, then repainting. We also thought about doing some sort of a textured wall treatment so that it hides the bad stuff.
We just aren't sure what the best thing is!
Thanks in advance!
Cashmere
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Re: Yucky walls
Wed, January 21, 2004 - 4:41 PMI grew up in a an old home with cracked walls, and how my parents combated it was wallpaper. It might simply be a stop gap but it is an idea. I think that would be the easiest solution.
Otherwise I think that replastering and sanding might be your only option. But you might want to make sure that the cracks, dings and such are just surface damage.
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Re: Yucky walls
Thu, January 22, 2004 - 3:50 PMMy wife and I just bought a house, and it was the same thing- 40 years of really bad patch jobs from pictures, posters, etc. I refinished all of the drywalls- really not hard to do once you get the hang out it. I am not sure if plaster is the same. In my case, I just used putty blades and a box of joint compound. You should be able to find something about it on Google...
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Thu, January 22, 2004 - 3:59 PMThanks guys... I'm thinking we're gonna have to just go with the putty blades and joint compound, too. I think that'll just be the easiest and cheapest way to get the job done. -
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Sat, January 24, 2004 - 11:40 PMAs for wall treatments go to dsc.discovery.com/fansites/...owell.html
and click on step by step demos and in the archives are some really good wall treatments. about 30 of them. Some may even help disguise the wall damage. Good luck!
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Re: Yucky walls
Fri, October 28, 2005 - 8:21 AMDefinitely patch, spackle, and sand first. Wallpaper is an option, but a poor sanding job can still show through. Another idea is to do a faux paint finish such as ragging or sponging. In addition to providing a textured look - without the bumpy paint - it gives a luxurious feel to the wall while camouflaging a multitude of wall sins. I wrote about the various techniques on my blog. See it here: myhomeredux.typepad.com/blog/2..._t.html
Hope this helps. Also remember some of those dings is what gives your old house character.
Julie
