{"id":22578,"date":"2015-09-13T17:22:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=22578"},"modified":"2015-09-13T17:22:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T00:22:03","slug":"working-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/13\/working-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Working weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work, work, work this weekend. Among other things I started the next section of the complicated ceiling:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/09\/13\/working-weekend\/frontentry_interior_ceilinginprogress-small_0915\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22580\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/FrontEntry_Interior_CeilingInProgress-SMALL_0915-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"FrontEntry_Interior_CeilingInProgress-SMALL_0915\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long way to go, obviously. And I&#8217;m hoping to save some of the beadboard for the bathroom project (wainscoting around an old clawfoot tub; won&#8217;t that be cool?), so this side will be a little different than the part I already finished.<\/p>\n<p>But you know me and my almost-magical ability to find stuff I need for projects. This afternoon I scored about 30 square feet of faux beadboard panel at a garage sale. So If I run out of the good stuff for the ceiling, I can fake it. Just back the bead panel with 1\/2-inch of something, nail it up there, and nobody will know.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, here&#8217;s a pic of what the above area looked like a little over a year ago. Lovely, eh? See those big blocks at the bottom? One covers a hole in the floor. One covers a giant gap under the front door. Two cover the fact that the rot in that area was so bad that the wall was no longer attached to the floor and just sort of flapped in the breeze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/09\/13\/working-weekend\/entryway_inprogress-door-floor-wall-projectbeginning-small_052614\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Entryway_InProgress-Door-Floor-Wall-ProjectBeginning-SMALL_052614-450x600.jpeg\" alt=\"Entryway_InProgress-Door-Floor-Wall-ProjectBeginning-SMALL_052614\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22579\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of scoring good stuff &#8230; remember that beadboard I found in the woods? I had to use the last of it today, the most damaged or difficult pieces I&#8217;d been putting off using. That meant in part scraping off decades of layers of wallpaper. The old wallcoverings were like a mini-history. I hated to see them go. I&#8217;m guessing this shot covers the 1940s to the 1970s:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2015\/09\/13\/working-weekend\/beadboard_witholdwallpapers-small_091315\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-22582\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Beadboard_WithOldWallpapers-SMALL_091315-450x338.jpg\" alt=\"Beadboard_WithOldWallpapers-SMALL_091315\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22582\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gray paper with the squares and fish and the softer flowery paper (not the obnoxious 1960s-70s flower-child special there on the bottom right) were thick, more like cardboard than paper. The fish paper appeared hand-painted, though I don&#8217;t know whether it really was. <\/p>\n<p>The painted layer of paper came off easily, but left a thick, pulpy, cardboardy, gray underside that had to be softened with warm water and removed with a paint scraper. <\/p>\n<p>Any of you old-house people familiar with wallpapers like that? Am I right on their vintage?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work, work, work this weekend. 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