We've spent the last couple of days beavering away on the nursery. The skirting boards (known over here as baseboards) were very boring, so we've added some beading to the top of the skirting board. And that's when we discovered one of the fun things about old houses. Despite the brand new 'gyprock' on the walls, they aren't flat. There's a gentle undulation. So our nice straight pieces of beading aren't flush to the wall. The ceiling is also not entirely flat. So the new coving (aka crown moulding) around the top of the room has had to be modified to take this into account, which then had to be backfilled with dry wall compound. We got a little inventive to do the back fill. We copied the idea of an icing bag used to put icing on a cake, and were able to inject drywall compound into the crack with ease.
The moulding around the centre of the room is there to accentuate the size of the room, which is in fact very small. We got the idea from a DIY program we saw. This was particularly difficult because the room slopes where the building has settled over the last hundred years, but the modern moulding is square. We lined up the first piece with the most difficult part to get right, the sloping ceiling. After that, we worked by eye to try and keep the moulding roughly level and in line with all the other pieces. Doesn't look bad, even though I say so myself.
The icing on the cake is that we've finally managed to get some primer on the walls and ceiling - we'll be ready to paint the walls in the next couple of days!
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