Week two of the sitting room make over – Part two

On Monday our neighbour spent a very long day plastering all the walls except the last wall which didn’t have plaster board and was just being skimmed.

The plaster is drying out

On Tuesday he skimmed the last wall and made a start on putting up the cornice.

Starting on the cornice

He has started with the trickiest bit in the alcove. By Wednesday the cornice was completed.

The cornice is completed

My husband stained the dado rail to blend in with the rest of the woodwork

Then he stained the skirting boards

He was trying to get some of the jobs done to help speed the work up.

By Thursday the walls have had a white undercoat and we have tried a bit of the warmer peach colour which will go under the dado rail. Soft peach will go above the dado rail which is the colour on the radiator.

The walls have had the undercoat applied

The two shades of paint

The white line between the two shades of colour is where the dado rail will go.

The walls have now had the first coat of colour

Our neighbour needed to leave early today to take his daughter to the airport. My husband stepped in with painting the walls to help speed up the work.

On Friday our neighbour completed putting on the skirting and the dado rail. He had to leave early again today to attend a funeral but is returning in the morning. Meanwhile my husband continued with filling and painting.

The plain block skirting

A moulding on top of the skirting adds detail and transforms it

The dado rail is added

The ceiling rose is up.

Decorative ceiling rose

On Saturday the ceiling light is put back up.

The ceiling light is back up in the centre of the new rose

Our neighbour left at one o’clock once he had done all the bits we needed help with. He replaced the sockets and helped my husband put back the tricky curtain track.

We then cleaned up the floor together and I painted the ceiling rose and the inside of the radiator while my husband had given the outside of the radiator it’s second coat. We went round the room tweaking the final details.

We then put the curtains back up and moved the furniture back in. Tomorrow we will add the details and put up the pictures.

I will do a final post of the end result over the next few days.