The Living Room

We did a lot to the living room. Biggest thing was getting that ceiling painted. It is made of hay and cement formed into tiles, and it drinks paint like Dracula drinks blood. Since the original room had an overhang, there was a large portion of the ceiling that was not painted. We removed the overhang (approximately 15 minutes after the house was recorded in our name) and have been looking at that unpainted hay and cement ever since.

We paid a guy a steak dinner to spray the ceiling. He had to shoot up to four coats to get the celing to look consistent, but the end result was fab. After he was done, we painted the walls and re-did the moulding around the big windows. We also removed all the blinds from the big windows. Before summer, we will get some sun shades installed, but the removal of everything really cleaned up the look of the room, and during the winter months, we get lots of light in through those windows which helps heep the house warm and bright.