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  • Stripped some horrible gold w/ black butterfly wallpaper over the weekend, along with the lining paper, leaving this:

    It's largely smooth (ish) and could probably just do with a sand but are there any paints etc that are particularly good as a base for smoothing it out before painting the top coats? Polycell do something called Smoothover but it gets mixed reviews...

  • Hard to see how smooth that actually is, but you could try sanding blocks to even it out. With fine cracks, you can wet them and then scrape a filler over them.

  • It feels pretty smooth but it's really difficult to tell. I think I might try doing a coat of plaster primer to bring up the imperfections and decide what to do after that.

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