{"id":3983,"date":"2022-02-03T10:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3983"},"modified":"2022-02-03T10:25:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T10:25:34","slug":"the-cloud-mural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3983","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud Mural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the possibility of a proper staircase becoming more and more real, it was time to deal with this big area of unfinished ceiling before there were all banisters and whatnot to get in the way, while I could still put in a false floor to put working platforms on.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3954\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20211119_120556.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Plasterboarding was exactly as much fun as it always is. Boy has it lost its shine as an activity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3957\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20211124_224859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I really can&#8217;t tell you how much I dislike plasterboarding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3958\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20211125_165829.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If I never plasterboard again in my life it&#8217;ll be far too soon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3967\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20211205_153352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Painting, however, I&#8217;m not sick of that yet. Good thing too because I spent an entire week doing test pieces on scraps of plasterboard in order to get good enough to dare start the real mural.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3966\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20211204_170406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great big wonderful thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLB5D3CF6D307E0BF5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mural Joe on Youtube<\/a> for the techniques. I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it. Gonna do Julian&#8217;s office ceiling too. One day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3970\" src=\"http:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/IMG_20211209_143538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the possibility of a proper staircase becoming more and more real, it was time to deal with this big area of unfinished ceiling before there were all banisters and whatnot to get in the way, while I could still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/?p=3983\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3986,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions\/3986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/donatedhouse.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}