When we moved into our house the previous owners had installed a cornice board above the giant picture window in the living room. It was obviously homemade and when it was installed, they used GIANT nails. Like, ginormous. And so many of them. That thing wasn't going anywhere! Unfortunately, I didn't take a great picture of it, but this one should give you an idea...
giant cornice board AND ugly wallpaper! yikes!
We didn't really love it and it was a pain in the butt to get curtains in and out of it, so Jared ripped it down with great relish and chopped it up. The bad news was that it left some huge holes where the huge nails had gone into the ceiling. It is a textured ceiling so we weren't quite sure how we were going to patch all those holes without it looking too obvious.
Well, I gave it a go the other day and I think it came out pretty well. Here's what it looked like before:
For the bigger holes I used some mesh joint tape just to cover the holes before I started covering everything with joint compound. Most of the smaller holes just took one layer of joint compound.
Once I had some nice pink patches, I found a little fireplace broom that had been left behind by the previous owners and was made out of straw. I scraped this along the wet joint compound in the direction of the texture on the ceiling.
And surprise! It actually worked really well!! The straw spread the joint compound in exactly the same way the ceiling was already textured and I'm hoping that once we get some fresh paint on there you won't even be able to tell I patched a gazillion holes!! Score one for random objects inherited with the house!
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