Under water! Hahaha! OK, you bough a house with a murder room and a room to drown in. But you love it, right??? It looks like you have real solid hardwood molding there. You could strip and refinish that. Do you have hardwood floors and baseboards? They didn't get fancy in that time period, but they did use quality materials. Are the walls plaster and lattice?
Plaster and lattice went out sometime in the 1940s. This house is somewhere in the mid 60s. The main thing that characterizes the 60s is the houses were still built with a lot of hand tools and very sturdy. Generally, we didn’t start seeing poor construction until the late 70s early 80s. Somewhere around the 1950s post World War II, the houses started to be built with less flush. Smaller trim, smaller rooms, more practical. If you’re looking for a good house that you don’t need to show off to all your friends this time period is perfect. 👍 To be honest with you, I have bad claustrophobia, and a fear of water. I keep that room shut and don’t go in there. Not looking forward to painting it.
@@DestinyContractors I bought a 60s brick and cinderblock house with metal lattice and plaster walls Wow! Was that ever a challenge to reno. I got cuts from the metal lattice and dislocated the bone at the base of my left-hand middle finger from trying to pound holes in hard plaster and was really covered in plaster dust while ripping out that bathroom down to the cinderblocks. There was no insulation. The one thing I remember most from that job was this story. I was feeling like having Italian for dinner that night. I was dirty-white with plaster. In my neighborhood the closes Italian restaurant was a mafioso business meeting place. Swank, expensive, but good food. So I walked up to the door, poked my head in, got the attention of the bar tender-server and waved him over and outside. He came out. The place is never busy and they only had the one guy doing all the work out front. I explained. I know I'm a mess, but I've been busy all day renovating a bathroom and I'm hungry for Italian. Can I come in, looking like this? He said wait. I'll go ask the boss. Two minutes later the boss comes out, opens the door, poke his head out to look at me. He was stone-faced and didn't say a word. He was gone in three seconds. I was sure it was a no-go. Then the bar tender-server came out right away, opened the door wide and said come in. He seated me right in line with the front door and close to the bar. A couple of suits, talking business on the other side of the restaurant were the only other people in there, but there were reserved table signs all over the place. Got my food and wine with 100% quality service and was almost ready to settle up the bill when the crowds started pouring in! Man!!! I was more concerned about being a hot mess than the bar tender-server seemed to be. But, in my way of thinking, if you're in business, my money's good, no matter what my business is and that mafia boss seemed to agree. LOL! Hmmmm, yah, I can see why you want to get the blue pool room painted, but are putting it off. I don't like deep water or tight spaces either and I procrastinate when I have to do taxes. I hate taxes, because I don't like government getting up in my business at all for any reason. Try putting on some yellow or pink shaded glasses while you work it that room. Or maybe you can put a filter on the ceiling light or get yellow or red light bulbs. Yellow will make you see green and pink will make you see purple. Green is woodsy, like the forest and purple is... go with the green! No need to feel like you're trapped inside a giant grape or artery while you're in there. LOL!
