Apparently when you are driving 55 mph, its like 55 mph winds are trying to lift the drywall off the roof rack. In other words, instead of having 3 4x8' sections of drywall, we now had 6 roughly 4x4' sections. Gently rained on. Well.. We'll make it work.
We were much more successful at cutting and installing the drywall (though with many more seams than originally intended...). Even Barb managed to get a picture taken of her doing some work.
After we got that done, we tried to mud. The taping and mudding wasn't so bad, but realizing that the mud had to be even with the existing walls gave us a jolt. That's not as easy as Johnathan Scott makes it look on HGTV. So misleading.
So, Barb did a bit of DIY network research, and found out that instead of sanding in the traditional sense, we could try to wet sand with a sponge. It actually wasn't that bad, but it was easy to take off TOO MUCH, and that caused Brandon to go back and mud again. And again. And again. And then one more time for good measure. At least there was less mud dust. (What is it? Its sawdust but from joint compound... I don't know what that's called.)
So. A week later, when the dust settled (ba-dum-ch!), Barb took on the task of painting the front room. Our colors are fudge and coffee. Well, sauteed mushroom, but we like to think of it as coffee before cream and after. We found this paint called coffee that we really liked, but was in that Valspar premium Eddie Bauer home decor collection for about eight times the price of the normal paint. So we took it to all the different makers and found a close second. I will maintain that we were going for coffee though. Which, if you really know us, or know our wedding, or if you've met either of us once, you know we like coffee.
Anyway. It looks beautiful! (sorry you can't see the colors very well. It looks lighter than in the picture, and looks much more like coffee in the daylight)
In her victory shot, Barb thought she'd share how much painter's tape she had to use.
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