After a bad moth experience in the old condo, Lucky and Corypheus blithely threw themselves into lining the main bedroom closets with cedar. Lucky had to pry out the cemented-in shelves with a crowbar, resulting in unsightly and unstable holes down to the brick, which he decided to plaster over.

hmm....

unsightly & unstable
At this juncture, I’m going to point out that he has never plastered anything before.