Welcome to my ghetto

We have now taken siege of the rooms we actually live in, the bedroom and diningroom, so we've retreated into the kitchen behind thick plastic to give us some false hope that it will help keep things dust-, grit- and grime-free. The bedroom has proven to be a wonderland of bad wallpaper archaeology but the Finnish Museum isn't interested in it as an exhibit. I spent the weekend chiseling 5 layers of awful wallpaper off the wall and unearthing a ventilation grate that, yes, had been wallpapered over and hidden behind a giant bad, cheap closet that we had removed. I say 'unearth' as there was at least a foot or more of rubble/sand/mortar accumulated over the past 80 years behind the closed vents after I managed to wedge them open. I stripped the paint off the grate, sanded it and gave it a coat of silver paint for metal and repaired the broken vent mechanism too. After removing the paper it looks better than before (which really isn't saying much :) but the walls, and ceiling, still need to be plastered smooth, primed and painted.

6 Apr 2003 at 17:22, Helsinki