Game Room – Before and After | Historic Morton Hall

This here is a story about the game room. We call it the game room because . . . . well . . . . we name all the rooms in the house and living room was already taken. Occasionally we even play games in there!

Okay, so back to the story. This room was in a state of partial restoration for years. And I mean YEARS! There wasn’t much to look at, so we didn’t really take many photos. Here is one that also provides Laurie was working on the plaster for over 5 years. The room looked like this for a very long time. We went back and forth – working on this room and then completely ignoring it for years. It seemed like such a huge amount of work needed to be done and we weren’t seeing much progress. We had started to become accustomed to projects with more instant gratification.

Here are a few more photos from the Open House when the room was still in mid-construction.

Faux pumpkins on the mantle with twinkling lights

Cozy corner of the game room

But in 2011, we decided to just “do it”! Here are a few more before shots that show the plaster work done and the final clean up before finishing up the entire room. I wish we had taken photos and documented all of the phases this room but we didn’t. Here are some of the things that went into getting this room ready to be used:

Tape, mud and sand cracks in the plaster
Add lathe and drywall to areas where large pieces of plaster were missing
Remove all of the building supplies that were being stored in this room
Laurie being pushed around on scaffolding for many weekends fixing plaster
Priming the ceiling and walls (being careful not to touch the faux painted doors and trim)
Replacing the dangling light bulb with a chandelier
Sanding the floors (who paints part of a hardwood floor?)
Polyurethane the floors
Paint the ceiling and walls (sparkly paint of course)
Cover the vent hole in the wall to keep down on draft