Preparing the house
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Before the house could be replastered, old plaster had to be removed.
Anyone who has done this job knows that its dusty, miserable work. Here trash cans are lined up in the hallway waiting to receive debris.
The Dodds are no strangers to restoration. A decade ago they restored the Bordley-Randall House, circa 1715, as another Designer Show House for the Anne Arundel Medical Center Auxiliary.
Pleasant Plains proved to be more of a challenge than the Bordley-Randall house, however. The Bordley-Randall House had been upgraded, repaired and improved over the years; the farm house, built in the 1830s, had not.
The Dodds are fortunate to have master craftsmen working on their restoration project.
Will and Bruce MacFarlane have reconstructed the interior of the house, correcting the bends and slopes. Though master plasterers themselves, they brought in Wally Lerner, owner of Wallace Plastering and one of the best in this trade, to plaster the house.
Parts of this story: Intro | Preparing the house | The plastering begins | The final white coat
