Working On The Pantry

Today I will start working on the pantry. The ceiling has been fixed, and it is time to start the painting. The ceiling is original to the building. The plasterer we had fix the ceiling dates the ceiling to the late 1700’s or early 1800’s. Since we are trying to keep the house as “original” as we can, we have had a tough job in choosing colors for the pantry. The ceiling now is a dirty gray color. After all it is 200 years old.
Three of the walls have the original reddish milk paint. We have been trying to match the red, but have found it almost impossible to attain the right color. We will keep the two end walls original, and paint one wall??a mustardy yellow, and then age it. The last wall will be taken up by an 1800’s pantry cupboard. The wall around the cupboard is still being debated. Many of the historical houses we have visited at Strawbery Banke have a similar mustary color in the??kitchens of that era.