Lorna's Reading, Yoga Room

This room is 100 years old, a single room addition to the original even older 12' x 16' lake cottage. It was my daughter's bedroom when she was young, then an office and piano room. When we began the rehab it had originally been wallpapered, including the ceiling - layers of painted wallpaper over cracked 'plaster over lath' with 100 past picture nail holes. In the 30+ years we have lived here the floors were unfinished, raw or covered with rugs. Except for the modern window inserts all the wood is original. 

I did the more basic work (with help from John Rust on the cracked plaster), filling, sanding, caulking. Lorna had spent hours stripping wallpaper and after did all the taping and painting. The wood trim is close to the original color and the wall paint is an approximate match to the old gray plaster walls - because after she spent a hundred hours stripping layers of wallpaper she liked the look.

Sanded the maple floor, and filled and sanded, and filled. And sanded. Of course over time the boards have shrunk so I filled the gaps, first trying to match the wood which did not look right. So I scraped all that filler out and refilled with a couple of tries of dark filler, sanded again and lightly stained it all before applying multiple coats of Danish oil. It is better than I could have hoped, but still has character, patina ... and the scratches and gouges of a hundred years of use.

Next, move the bookcases back, take delivery of furniture tomorrow and purchase a center rug.

- Gunnar