domesticity
Jan. 22nd, 2013 12:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateI have finished not one but two baby quilts, one of which we're even keeping. Pictures exist, and may be posted eventually. I'm working on sheet sets for the crib mattress (not that it's particularly recommended to have actual top sheets for an infant-- sleep sacks are also on the list-to-make, and I've got a couple secondhand-- but if I do top sheets & pillow cases now, I don't have to later), culling the mending pile and various random crap, and then there's the nursery paint issue.
So... there was that bit where the shingles on the new roof didn't quite overlap with the old roof well enough, and since the *entire time* the addition was being put on we had ALL THE RAIN (most of which we haven't seen since...) there were enough moisture issues in the old part of the attic that much of the paint in the old bedrooms did unfortunate cracking & chipping things. So we have chippy paint in the nursery-to-be, and I bit my tongue and trusted in the negative lead paint test (as there's no point in testing if you're not going to believe it anyway) and sanded & washed the walls yesterday. For the record, sanding vertical surfaces is not kind to the wrists. And then I made grauwulf mud a couple holes, and now I have to paint things and hope it's better enough to be worth the effort. Because the "right" thing to do would be to knock out all the plaster and the trim and replace the walls entirely, preferably adding insulation behind them, and that is not going to happen in the next couple weeks. In any case, we have good paint with primer, and a somewhat smoother surface which is now dry, so it should hold for a while. Plus furniture that's going back in the problematic corners...
Grauwulf also floated the intriguing notion of covering large segments of wall with sheets of plexiglass, or possibly flat-board surfaced to be magnetic or doodleable or cork board or something, at which point we could anchor them to the trim in some fashion and ignore the stupid plaster entirely. This seems like an excellent idea to float to a small child of an age to start wanting to help customize her own environment.
In any case, I now need to have lunch, and then find the last bits of painting equipment that only got half-way to "put away" after the last time I used them.
So... there was that bit where the shingles on the new roof didn't quite overlap with the old roof well enough, and since the *entire time* the addition was being put on we had ALL THE RAIN (most of which we haven't seen since...) there were enough moisture issues in the old part of the attic that much of the paint in the old bedrooms did unfortunate cracking & chipping things. So we have chippy paint in the nursery-to-be, and I bit my tongue and trusted in the negative lead paint test (as there's no point in testing if you're not going to believe it anyway) and sanded & washed the walls yesterday. For the record, sanding vertical surfaces is not kind to the wrists. And then I made grauwulf mud a couple holes, and now I have to paint things and hope it's better enough to be worth the effort. Because the "right" thing to do would be to knock out all the plaster and the trim and replace the walls entirely, preferably adding insulation behind them, and that is not going to happen in the next couple weeks. In any case, we have good paint with primer, and a somewhat smoother surface which is now dry, so it should hold for a while. Plus furniture that's going back in the problematic corners...
Grauwulf also floated the intriguing notion of covering large segments of wall with sheets of plexiglass, or possibly flat-board surfaced to be magnetic or doodleable or cork board or something, at which point we could anchor them to the trim in some fashion and ignore the stupid plaster entirely. This seems like an excellent idea to float to a small child of an age to start wanting to help customize her own environment.
In any case, I now need to have lunch, and then find the last bits of painting equipment that only got half-way to "put away" after the last time I used them.