My apartment has been giving me all sorts of opportunities to work on it lately. After thelatest water damage(upstairs neighbor’s bathroom leaking into my living room), I discovered that the textured paint in my apartment could be removed by using a wallpaper glue dissolver. I startedremoving paint in my entry, since its walls have the least surface area of the rooms in my place. The paint removal went quickly and easily, but I discovered that a floorboard was hiding a shallow but long hole in the wall.

This had several implications: I’d also been removing tile in the entry. With the floorboard out and the wall needing repaired, I realized it would be best to finish taking tile off the floor before patching and painting the wall, in case I ran into any other areas that needed patched. I finally finishedthatdifficult undertaking today, as shown in the photo above!Here it is “finished”(all tile removed). I’m glad to say that only the one floorboard area needs

By fraise

The Medieval Var village ofRianshas been added to Beyond. This small village, located northeast ofAix-en-Provenceand the Sainte-Victoire mountain, is a frequent café stop on our Beyond trips into the Var, Vaucluse and theLuberon.
By Russ Collins