I am so AMAZED every time I see you transform a space. You are expert at capturing the essence of an old structure 😄 My real life home is about 115-20 years old. There was a hole in the wall in my son's room and we could see the structure. Looked just like your tissue paper wall (only it was cement). You've totally captured the look. In My neighbors house (about 10-15 years older than mine) they found old photos and newspapers in the wall during construction. The walls I built in my house I elected not to glue in so it would be easy to remove/repair if necessary. I used a little modeling clay to secure them. Love this brilliant attic. ❤️❤️❤️😘
Jolene those look like slats in old house trust me I have done a lot of remodels in very old house yes they stuffed the walls with newspaper.All I could do was laugh we would want to cover those slats here your are putting them in.Great looking attic so realistic.💕💕💕💕💕bless you for putting in all those details.
Thank you so much for sharing.😂 yes I have a habit of making everything old. This old house is where I would rather spend my life vs a fancy upgraded home. 🥰❤️
THIS WAS GREAT! The tissue paper was very effective! Everything looks Very realistic! Using the box to conceal the wire was genius!!! I need to watch video for the light bulb set up! This was AWESOME JOLENE!!!
Thank you so much, Gretchen, once you get the hang of rotating the hot glue to shape and manipulate the light bulb, its pretty simple to make more. And you can always peel it off if you dont like how it came out or mess up. They are expensive to buy. So in that case I must make it...lol ❤️ 🥰
I love your solution! You also could've mixed some glue with spackle or joint compound and spread it on the wall, then squished the boards onto it so the "plaster" could squeeze between them. The cobwebs look great!
Oh yea, I was thinking the piping method..🤣😂 what a dodo bird. 🤦♀️ Thanks so much, for the webs. They are super fun to make. Maybe I'll try the spackle method, squishing the boards together in the future. 🥰❤️
I think the attic space looks amazing. Great job on it. It reminds me of the old farmhouse that we lived in when I was a teenager. We lived there two different times when I was younger. I had a closet off my bedroom that had those slats on it. There were old newspapers on the wall behind the slats. It was neat trying to read some of the stories. Of course, you never got to read the whole story, because some of it was behind the slats.
Thank you so much for sharing. I love reading everyone's stories. I'm so glad it looks great, I was not fully in at first. I liked it more after I trimmed it down some. ❤️🥰
You are so great at aging techniques. Oh I love the tissue paper look for the old insulation! WOW!!!! I know that took some serious time between that and the slats and it was worth it for those results! The concealing the wire in the box too was genius!
Lath and plaster is the type of walls you are referring too. They were used up until the 1940's. Let's be honest this type of doing walls in some form or fashion have been used for hundreds of years. They just got better things to use. As @graceh8866 said newspaper was used too. Especially if the old plaster was broken out and you didn't have any. 😉 You did a really good job on it. It doesn't look Haunted. Just naturally bug control.👍🏼 I need to check out your videos of The Pet Cemetery when I get a chance. Thanks for the video.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🌺
Thank you so much for sharing. I thought of adding plaster and pieces of the paper in place of what was missing. Just definitely did not want to try packing that stuff in. This was much easier to work with. I can't wait to get back to the Pet Sematary...I have to work on trees next but still working on the front section ❤️🥰
Love the ideas you have, the walls are brilliant, I also close my boxes the same way, I also close bag handles with one knot and one half bow, then you only need to pull shortest end and you untie it, rather than wrestling with 2 knots, path of least resistance, lol.
In one old house, when they opened the wall, was insulated with vintage movie posters. The homeowner worked in a movie house. He would bring the old posters home and use them in the walls.
I've seen houses with the kinda newspaper insulation poking out between the slats, I knew exactly what it was from the thumbnail, genius! Your lightbulbs are so realistic, I really have to watch that again despite the fact they don't have lightbulbs in medieval homes!
Thank you so much. Maybe not a light bulb, but there are so many ways to make the sconces for the torch lights. I always think of a castle when you say medieval..lol and forget about the cottages..lots of candles oh and those holders that looks like saucers with teacup handle. 🥰❤️
Thank you so much. O did have an sttic like this once growing up, maybe a few times. And we would have so much fun playing up there when it wasn't during summer months or winter months...lol❤️🥰
@@tinykeyholeminis When I was young my Mum worked in a big old fashioned department store style shop that had fabulously HUGE attics. When I was off school sick or school holidays, I would go play in the attics while she worked. They were full of old shop fittings and mannequins and stuff. Lots of fun
