Candy Froggie's Lair

Okies, I know you are all like St Thomas, you won't believe what you haven't seen (well, at least I'm that way :P)

So here's one of the job we did in the house: getting rid of the ugly greenish surface of the wall to make the stones visible again.

Once the greenish part was off (made of cement and plaster), we had to clean all the joints between the stones. Which was the hardest work we had to do so far (it took about a week).
The joints between the stones had to be 3-8 cm deep so that we could put the lime+sand mixture in them for the final step.
Once you've put very carefully the lime in the joints, you've to wait a couple of hours so that it get just dry but not too dry. And then you've to quickly brush the joints to make them at the same level as stones.
Watta work.

We've not finished the walls of the room, but made 3/4 of it.
We'll make the same work for most of the rooms.
Walls in old stones, that's the way we want it.
The pics are not so good here, but it gives you an idea.
It's already almost a sensual pleasure to feel all these big stones back to life in the house **~~*^* *^^* *


the room as it was a few weeks ago


the room with the clean joints, ready to be filled with lime


stones with lime joints, how the walls look like now