Check out these baby picture images:
Joachim
Image by Kit4na
My favourite picture to date: my son Joachim. Born 27 September
Koala Baby Pink Monster Teddy Bear
Image by Michael Kappel
Homemade Closet Organizer And
Koala Baby Pink Monster Teddy Bear
Baby Room, sanded walls
Image by Qole Pejorian
(This is the first picture of two. There's now an after picture as well.)
The walls and ceiling in the baby room were a disaster. They were terribly rough and lumpy, with big holes and cracks everywhere, and they had 5 layers of wallpaper interspersed with countless coats of paint...
So rather than throw a layer of drywall over everything, we decided to sand off all the irregularities and then fill the holes.
Well, that worked for three of the walls, and the ceiling. The fourth wall, of which you can only see a small piece on the left of the picture, started peeling, and soon I (and later, my father) had to chip off all of the wallpaper and paint, right down to the bare plaster, which saw the daylight for the first time since the late 1920's.
The majority of the work was required around two giant patches, where two big (probably beautiful) windows were removed (maybe in the 70's?) and then patched over by a blind monkey. When the sander hit the plaster patching (the white areas), the clouds of dust that came off of it made it impossible to see in the room for several minutes.
I've been here before. Many of the rooms in our house have patched over windows.
I would not recommend anyone do this. It was only after I sanded the old walls flat that I did some research and discovered that there's an excellent possibility that I put some lead dust (from old, pre-1978 leaded paint) into the air by doing this. I was wearing a respirator, and we were meticulous about clean up, but despite vaccuuming with a hepa filter, mopping everything, etc, we still are worried about the lead dust...
