Stucco, Venetian plaster interior walls. Removal? Paint over?

[Frank Szymanski]

Hello all!

Looking at a SFH that has a pretty ugly kitchen to me. Looks like the owner at some point tried to either venetian plaster or stucco of some sort their interior walls to the kitchen and bathroom. See images.

Anybody have experience with handling this? I haven't attempted to repair any of this yet. Some options include:

- Attempt to rip off of wall/sand (doubt this will be practical)

- Paint over white with another color to make it more appealing?

- Cover with thin dry wall?

Any advice would be great thanks!

[Bob H.]

Yikes. Maybe chisel off the highest spots and put a coat of drywall compound over the whole thing? At least that would be thinner than the thin drywall, which would require taping and floating the seams anyway. You don't want to come out too far against the window moulding. If you have baseboard, it's probably best to remove and reinstall it.