Lath and plaster walls2/9/2024 **That being said, we were adding can lights to 3 of our rooms (living room, dining, and kitchen) and there was no insulation in the attic bedrooms, so those ceilings we DID remove the plaster and put drywall (shiplap in the attic bedrooms) up after we added insulation and lighting.**Īfter we removed all our wallpaper (this took us about 2 months!) we realized that the plaster is too rough to simply prime and paint over. I love the character of old baseboards! I feared that if we removed our baseboards (necessary if we were removing the lath and plaster), we would damage the them beyond repair or reuse. Plaster is HEAVY, dusty, and time consuming to remove.ģ. So much work is involved in removing lath and plaster. If we were to remove all the walls with their imperfect lumps and edges we would lose some of that character that attracted us to the old house in the first place.Ģ. Here is what we discovered over the past 4 months, and how we ended up loving our finished walls: WHY WE LIKE PLASTER wallsįirst, I should explain why we wanted to keep our plaster walls:ġ. I do not like wallpaper, and I also did not like the idea of removing the plaster walls. The walls and ceilings throughout the house were covered with 4 or more layers of wallpaper. When we moved into our 1916 house 4 months ago, I had no idea what I was going to do with the plaster walls.
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