On the monday we started the day by disgussing what needed to be done, some people started on their props straight away, We also decided that the walls in Gregors bedroom should be started, John who was designing the walls had decided that they would be done in layers, the first would be painted dark earthy colours so when the paper was ripped away it showed up under as if the walls were rotting from the aura given off by Gregor. Next was wallpaper which would be ripped and wrinkled in sections, and on top of this would be mould and gue and other unpleasant substances. So the rest of the group started painted. Sarah L, Laura and I hunted down a Junk yard so we could find cheap larger pieces of furniture, I needed to buy a chair for under Gregors window and Laura needed to find the arm chair. We got directions from some one in the other group and set off, unfortunately it wasn't a junk yard but a dump and we were unable to get anything from it but one of the men working there mentioned that Oxfam may have broken bits of furniture they may be able to sell us cheap, so we went back to Rochester high street. Unfortunately they didn't have anything but we went to the indoor market and there they had both the chairs that we needed and the two together only came to £20. We also found a china set which had 21 pieces in all that came from Czechoslovakia in a charity shop.
When we got back to uni the walls in Gregors room had been painted, they had mixed some of the paint with sawdust that had been left over from routing and had applied this to the walls as well giving the disgusting looking paint texture, it looked really good, just as I had imagined.
we also needed to put something on the walls in the living room, Which were now finished after we had got the last wall back, they needed a coat so that when we put the wallpaper up the ply wood didn't suck up all the moisture making the wallpaper fall of. So we covered the whole room in a layer of paste.
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