The Historic District

Munch, your home was a real beauty when new, nice to see some one trying to bring it back to it’s former glory. As far as paper on the walls. I guess my inclination for period restoration comes through in my posts. We painted a bedroom, and were the first to put paint to the walls, I felt bad at th...

Your house has a lot of character and appeal. It's wonderful that you're bringing it back to the condition it deserves. Will you have to drill, score, or otherwise rough up the surface of the drywall before applying the plaster patch? I've got a few similar repairs coming up soon and you've already...

I also wanted to post these old pictures I found of my house. The first is a picture posted to my historic district's Facebook page, probably from the 1980's or maybe late 70's. 21765103_329098410894026_6931305212488800377_n.jpg The second is an assessors photo from 1963: 216 e hillsdale ca. 1950.jpg

I'm all for buying another house, I plan on doing everything possible to buy 4 or 5 houses adjacent to mine if they become available at the right times, possibly for renting out or a bed & breakfast type of thing. Buying houses to rent is a fantastic way to build wealth if you can keep good tena...

Munch, your deep into a project most of us have done, I think I would go for a plaster repair as well. Is the rest of the wall well keyed and solid? From what I see in that room most of the issues are hole repairs. You will need to find a way to reinstate the lath though in those big holes. Nice to...

I removed a lot of painted wallpaper from plaster. what I found worked is make the room steamy , like a sauna, boil water, I found the silly scoring gizmo useless but I scored through it with a box cutter horizantally about 2 inches apart. then tacked towels against the walls and wet them, and also...

I'm in the original-plaster camp even to the point of (Bonnie, cover your ears!) leaving a crack or two for flavor. I like the texture, I like the way it absorbs sound, its tolerance of moisture and - this may be my imagination - it seems to make the house cooler in the summer. (I know it takes a g...

I guess we all have opinions but I'd open the plaster and insulate and then re-drywall but if you like plaster you can do that. I just dont see any visual difference and feel that insulation was a good invention. In my home I thought oh neat it's plaster and for one room I did some plaster restorat...

That wallpaper is delightfully bold up close. Yet in the stepped back shots, it smooths itself out and doesn't have that visually vibrating feeling some bold patterned wallpapers have. What a great find. I hope you save a bit if you're doing a house history book. And good luck on the mantel! From y...

I hate the drywall over everything so I peeled a little back to see if the old walls looked relatively intact: IMG_20181213_062350.jpg They did look somewhat intact so I kept going: IMG_20181215_021855.jpg IMG_20181229_230009.jpg IMG_20181229_230015.jpg IMG_20181229_230044.jpg IMG_20181229_230113.jp...