{"id":1549,"date":"2011-09-26T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T21:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmentd.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2011-09-26T16:48:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T21:48:47","slug":"next-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/next-step","title":{"rendered":"Next Step."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bookshelves are done, now we progress to the next stage in the living room and hallway&#8230; ceilings and walls. \u00a0I&#8217;ve already started doing patchwork &#8212; proper patchwork, not the stupid crap that folks pass off as patchwork, like, say, two layers of masking tape over a hole in the wall that was then painted over.<\/p>\n<p>Fuckers.<\/p>\n<p>The old molding is already gone from around the doors and baseboards. \u00a0I&#8217;ve tested a spot on the ceiling that needed some TLC to ensure that we can simply wet the old popcorn texture down and scrape it right off (this worked surprisingly well!). \u00a0Tomorrow we start laying down sheeting on the floors and taping it along the walls at the ceiling line, so that we can start scraping the texture off in earnest. \u00a0Then we can re-texture the ceiling with something more pleasant and subtle (a knockdown texture, also known as a &#8220;California Ceiling&#8221;&#8230; it&#8217;s pretty much what&#8217;s on the walls already).<\/p>\n<p>Then we paint. \u00a0Ceilings and walls, two coats each. \u00a0Anything will be better than the &#8220;beige available in 55 gallon drums&#8221; that&#8217;s on the walls now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bookshelves are done, now we progress to the next stage in the living room and hallway&#8230; ceilings and walls. \u00a0I&#8217;ve already started doing patchwork &#8212; proper patchwork, not the stupid crap that folks pass off as patchwork, like, say, two layers of masking tape over a hole in the wall that was then painted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domestica","category-house","category-rambling","category-stress"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}