Hey Annie! Sorry I couldn’t hang with you guys when you were around last week. Next time. Yeah, I just ordered the wallpaper last night, I hope I’m making the right move, but I think it will look awesome. Fern had offered me that old dresser you guys used to have when you lived in MPLS and I’m planning on painting it and adding it to our bedroom if it’s still available.

Thanks, Annmarie! It did feel pretty good, not gonna lie. You should totally see if you could patch the wall and paint, I bet it would make you so happy and make the space feel like you owned a part of it. Good luck!

I know you know all about it! We are total pros! I like that your skim coating guy has a similar method to me, that makes me feel way validated. I think if I had a bigger area to do I would be open to that mixing method, seems reasonable ;)

I haven’t commented on your blog in a while because I am a jerk, but I am totally excited about your ceilings, and your skim coat dude, and your radiators, and your PEX, and your front door and am totally jealous about your old photos you found.

I totally wimped out on skim-coating the enormous expanse of our entryway/hallway in our house and hired it out, and the pro guy actually mixed the pre-mixed all purpose stuff that you used, some water, and powdered compound all together in a bucket and used that on everything. He also just used a big taping knife (maybe 10 or 12 inches) and a 4 or 6 inch putty knife for the whole thing. So yeah, we’re basically pros!