YES, yes, OH yes.

We had a bit of a slow start today, but when we did get started we REALLY got started.

Alexis worked on patching walls in the upstairs bathroom while I finished smoothing out the last rough patches on our newly remade walls. While I waited for that mud to dry, I started scraping off the really horrible-looking ceiling paint. It looked like the plaster beneath would be completely ruined, but as I scraped I saw the horrible browny-non-color begin to fall away, and beneath this sometimes-bulgy nastiness, perfectly smooth plaster was revealed. I was delighted.

Of course, no news can be all good, so in some places the top coat of plaster was falling completely off all the way down to the scratch coat as soon as I took off the paint, and in one (very large, say 20 inch circle?) place the previous owners had patched the plaster with what I can only assume was caulk (!), but mostly, it was a very good experience. Very very welcome in a house that so seldom contains good surprises.

We ate a late lunch, and then...oh, then, I painted. That's right. Easter Basket ALL over the walls.

Sorry about the mess. One day we'll clean up! This is mostly a before.

After the painting, I went back to scraping the ceiling. Each time I turned around and got a glimpse of the wall, I laughed gleefully. Once the paint dried, I put all the receptacle and switch covers back on, and took far too many photos. Purple makes me happy.

VERY VERY HAPPY.
Did I mention I love purple?

I put the trim on for the photo.
It looks good as long as you don't look at it from the side. Small window still needs trim.

Alexis primed the trim around the windows, and I fiddled with trying to figure out how to put the old trim back up on the new wall without it looking weird. The plaster was much thicker than the sheet rock, and we didn't adjust for that on the back side, so now we have a little issue where the top trim isn't going to match the left trim properly unless we figure out some way to make it do so without looking too weird.