Hallway made Heavenly

The status of the hallway was warn, weathered and a tad out dated. Added to which the ceiling paint was cracked and peeling. Not on.

Enter woodenthumbs AKA gifted hands.

  

First things first, drop sheets down. Scrappers out. I start scraping all loose flaking paint from the ceiling. It's now snowing paint flakes.
Working with a ladder on stairs is a hassle at the best of times. In this case the client happened to be a fellow DIYer and hooked me up with a nifty accessory for the ladder.

As seen here to the left.

Done making it snow?....with all the loose paint scrapped off the ceiling you are left a patchy ceiling.                                                

Like this, see.
Now a step is formed between old paint and the unpainted surface. That step will show up soon as it's painted. To get rid of the step I used fine crack filler. I blend the two surfaces creating a 'ramp'. This now needs to dry. Leave it.

                                  

When the filler has dried completely it is time to start sanding. Another round of snow. Ha ha ha looks like I've been messing with flour. So now the surface is smooth and the step disguised. Time to paint.
Now to prevent a patchy finish the scrapped, original, surface gets a coat of masonry primer. Then a further coat of the colour, in this case white, before the ceiling gets coated as a whole. Remember to allow paint to dry between coats. I applied two coats so the finish is twice as nice.

That takes care of the ceiling. Now the wall. Thankfully the walls where in good shape so all I did was roll on the new colour.                                                                                            Just like this