Hello
I am a novice when it comes to renovation and I'm starting to plan to renovate the hallway. New wallpaper and flooring are the main plans.
However, one should probably start with the ceiling, it occurred to me. The paint (or filler?) is starting to peel off at the nail heads.
How should one proceed here? As a beginner, I'm not really sure of the steps, other than that it probably involves filling, sanding, and painting 🙂
Scrape off the peeling paint with a paint scraper? And then fill the nail holes? There's no point in going over the entire ceiling with the orbital sander, right?
Or should I try to see if it's possible to scrape off the entire old layer of paint?
I keep thinking out loud, maybe someone has something to contribute eventually 🙂
In another part of the hallway (which is not connected), I scraped off peeling paint from the nails and then painted directly. This was probably ten years ago now. It didn’t look very nice. You can see the dimples for the nails.
So the question is if I could have just filled it. It would be a very thin layer then. Maybe it will look strange to have spot-filled later? There’s even a bit of texture on the paint that’s there today.
