Working on the bedroom

6 - 8 October 2018

Work continues: when we're taking a break from plaster, there's so much fiddly wood work to do.  When we first moved into an open wood frame with a mezzanine floor, a mattress and a mosquito net in June 2013, we used any scrap wood we could find to fix up our conveniences as the year moved towards winter.  Now we are finally dealing with that slapdash approach: filling and sanding holes; adding trim to mask gaps where struts don't join up; creating elaborate covers for weird shaped spaces in corners where there was nothing to screw to.  All very time-consuming.

 This is inside the low-headroom walk-in cupboard at the end of the bedroom.  This is where I got tired of plastering and decided to use up left-over bits of plasterboard.  They all needed filling round the edges and in the screw holes.  And in the top left corner, there is a very convoluted piece of plywood, covering a difficult gap.  All filled and sanded.

 Plastering continues along the north wall. One big empty panel in the middle, where all its smaller neighbours have been selected to use up exactly the amount of plaster remaining at the end of a day.

 The scary huge panel that is an interior wall terminating at the door frame to the right.  When the doors have been left open and the wind blows, this is the wall that takes the shock of the door slamming.  It has several stress fractures running horizontally along the interior laths.  We're hoping a top coat will strengthen and protect this (as well as using a door wedge!).

 First coat of paint goes on in the cupboard.

 Starting plaster on the large panel.

Two-thirds of the way up the panel, I am trying to mark the location of the interior baton that is good for fixing hooks into, when I realise that installing a surface baton would make the location significantly easier to find in future!  It also splits the panel into two, making it easier to manage.