The Dining Room

 Here is the dining room before painting.  Lovely, huh?

 More before pics.

The plaster walls have been scraped, patched and sanded.  Ready for paint, right?  I found out NO the hard way!

Here is the dining room mid-project.  I had A LOT of trouble with the plaster walls peeling and cracking as I painted, so I had to stop painting and scrape, patch and sand again...twice!

I finally figured out that I had to put down a coat of oil based primer, then the paint would stick to that.  Too bad I didn't know that at the beginning!

Here is the dining room painted a nice mustard yellow.  I wasn't quite sure of the color, but the more I look at it the more I like it.

The finished dining room walls.  Now we just need to repair and clean the chandelier, refinish the floors, repair and paint the window frames...will it ever be done???

The "new" dining room.  So much nicer to enjoy a meal in!