I enlisted Brandon’s help this weekend in mixing plaster for me while I put it on the walls. Eventually he started putting it on the walls himself, so that part got boring, but together we finished patching all the cracks, holes, and corners in the front bedroom.
Pictures!

My first corner!

Kind of blotchy after wet sanding.

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Don’t adjust your set, you’re still at Our New Old House written by Kelli and Brandon about our bungalow in Des Moines (with occassional appearances by Zoot and Scratch, our cats!)  I just got tired of the fixed width of my previous layout showing up all scrunched to the left of a widescreen monitor.  This […]

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I’ve made a little more progress on the walls in the front bedroom.  It’s a slow process and I’m maybe working a little too meticulously.  I worry that I’m trying to be a perfectionist with these walls.  One of my fellow housebloggers at This Old Crack House is crazy for smooth walls and I may […]

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This weekend I finished scrubbing the walls in the front bedroom and finally got to start patching nail holes, cracks, and imperfections.  For the small stuff I used this lightweight spackle stuff.

It was totally fun to work with. It had the consistency of marshmallow fluff!
Patching nail holes was super easy!
Now you see it…

Now you don’t…. […]

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Another evening in the library, another few bits of information added to what I know about my house and my neighborhood. You can see the document with the obituaries I found on the About Our House and About the Neighborhood pages. I’ll keep updating the documents there as I find more info.

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