“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso Pablo, meet Paolo. One hell of a destroyer. It’s Day 73 and dare I say we’re ready to create. Ladies & gents, pay your respects, the popcorn ceiling’s gone. Done. We’re stepping out of dingy darkness, striding towards bright light. 1-2-3 O’Clock, [...]
I return from the fray (removing our ugly bedroom‘s popcorn ceiling) with gifts, tips and good news: turns out, I’m a spackling god. Care to join me in the league of the gifted? Read on, as I share my rockstar spackling tips: What’s spackling? Many Canadians also call it ‘skim coating’. As in “skim coating a [...]
Until this week, my ugly bedroom had a grotesque, bumpy scar-fest of popcorn ceiling. We’ve told you why we’re removing it, but little in terms of entrenched reporting. Turns out, popcorn’s a pig of a job – very, very, very dusty. After trying a few methods, we figured out how to remove our popcorn ceiling: the stipple proved most willing to [...]
Enough of yesterday’s grim, real-life carnage. Wouldn’t we rather inspect tasteful medical diagrams? The [ugly] living room wall before: mirror/plywood mosaic bright orange paint really shitty chair-rail, for midgets glorious ‘70s vinyl wallpaper a shitty in-built bookshelf, with inset mirrors more mirror/plywood mosaic disgusting, dingy grasscloth even more mirror/plywood mosaic A whole lot of things [...]
All right friends and cherubs. Let’s wrap up this nonsense. Our walls can’t talk. But they’ve probably learned to swear. Here’s 18 days’ worth of gory glory. Days 1-18 in flipping Vancouver’s ugliest apartment: we got down and dirty with our living room walls. Spackle? Hot vinegar? Cold pizza? It’s all on the menu.
