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Today's helpful home-improvement tip: If ye ceiling, it hath not levelity, ye might apply a thin layer of plaster and texture it (like, say, in a swirly pattern of spirals that the Celts would have liked) to disguise the lack of levelity inherent in ye ceiling, this being easier than fixing the plaster-and-lath that has sagged because you removed a bearing wall in your renovations. However, be ye warned, if ye removeth not ye layers of unattractive wallpaper what are pasted to the ceiling surface before installing the thin layer of textured plaster, said wallpaper will later detach from ye plaster-n-lath and leave the thin decorative coat of plaster (what has the Celtic swirlies in it) to crack as ye gravity, yclept inexorable for a reason, ytaketh hold and pulleth in a downward-facing dog direction, slow but fine. Once the wallpaper has pulled away from the orginal plaster and lath, no amount of patch applied on the downward-facing side of the thin decorative coat of plaster is going to help it hold UP onto the ceiling. Also, years and years after you are dead, the person who winds up chipping the rest of the thin coat of decorative stuff off the ceiling is going to mock you on her livejournal. Ain't technology grand?

In other news, brother-the-younger splits wood.