The handy thing about waiting to do any interior design until I'd written a book covering the topic is that I can learn from other trailersteaders' trial and error. Turns out wood paneling is best sanded pre-painting, so I scuffed up the finish thoroughly in preparation for dealing with the bottom half of the wall.

I'd also gotten it into my head that I wanted to create a pseudo-stucco texture. So rather than simply filling in the indented lines of the paneling (so it didn't look so much like painted panels), I went a little nutty with the joint compound. As you can see in the image above, I also used mesh tape along the true seams so the thicker-than-usual spackling doesn't crack.

Here's part of the texturing on the upper half of the wall. Time to let it dry, then primer and paint. Fingers crossed my experiment looks good rather than turning into an eyesore.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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