Hi all,
Moved into this house recently and the previous owner seems to have had a long and abiding passion for artex.(and the colour brown but that's another story)
So the problem is this (and excuse my use of non-technical descriptions for things as I'm not that DIY minded, sorry)
My living room is divided in half by a nice modern dado rail about mid-height, no problem. It also has a very (VERY) old multi-painted-over picture rail about 2m high running round the entire room. Above that is intricate fan-style artexing on the walls to the ceiling height, which has been glossed over (several times.) The artexing covers the ceiling too but it's the walls we're concerned with.
The picture rail just has to come down, no arguing about it, which means I have to fill the recessed gap which will mean flattening the artexed areas above so it's a flat surface, which I understand might be a tad tricky, so is there another easier option that won't look horrible?
Thanks in advance for any help, I'm currently appealing to the gods of DIY to make it easier, somehow!
Thanks again.