In mid-August 2019, our regular house painter slotted some time to paint the great room. There was much prep work to be done–the old furnace return vents were patched but the texture needed work, and we decided to delete the sconce lights from the great room, as they were ugly and cluttered the walls (and Agent Smith had better ideas for getting light into the room at night). We also deleted the old thermostat for the south end of the house and the phone jack in the corner of the sunken area.
Our painter soon got to work placing dropcloths and plastic. Then it was time to get painting!