Today's post is a short one. After installing beadboard on the ceiling in the dining room, we had to add the remaining molding in the room, fill the nail holes and seams, and sand to get ready to paint. Below is a reminder of our starting point with the room and where we left off:
Alan and I started by installing crown molding to cover the edges of the beadboard.
When we priced the molding, we saw how this could quickly become a HUGE expense, so we used a trick we learned on Pinterest to make our molding look a little bigger -- we took a piece of half round molding and installed it a few inches below the crown molding.
Once the molding was nailed into place, we filled the seams and nail holes with caulk and then got to sanding everything.
To see more on crown molding, check out our master bedroom project!
Sanding above your head is NOT fun...
...and it takes FOREVER!!!
But I'm glad we did it. This step was going to make painting look so much better!
Our next step was to texture the top half of the walls where the molding was so that we could move on to painting.
Here are a few more views of the room before we textured:
Getting closer -- read more on texturing and painting here!
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