There have been several people lovingly reminding me that they've been checking my blog rather frequently, looking for updates on the house and wondering if we're still working on it. The answer is YES, however I've been up past 3 AM for 7 nights straight now working on the house, so blogging about it has been low on the list. I do get more than 100 hits a day though on this blog, so either I've gathered a following in the blogosphere world, or one of you guys is WAY too obsessive about seeing if we've finished yet!
Anyway, so the next step on the walls was to mud the areas with drywall mud that were either cracked, or low-lying, or to smooth areas where I couldn't get the wallpaper off. Essentially, my job was to apply mud until I had smooth walls. I went through more than a 5 gallon bucket!
Here's an example of my handiwork. This is what the walls looked like post-mudding. And yes, all of the LIGHTER stuff is what I mudded. Thankfully there was no taping involved, as I used an adhesive sealant to allow the mud to stick to the plaster walls (which also allowed me to just mud over cracks) 
Hard at work, mudding over a section where I couldn't get the wallpaper off. This meant that I had to bring the surrounding areas up as much as a half inch, in order to be even with the mudded over wallpaper. I also included this picture b/c I thought my hair was particularly cute :-P. All of my blog readers are going to be seeing a lot of Jeff and I at not exactly our best, so I'm always on the lookout for pictures that are actually flattering.
The idea of the room getting done really started to sink in as Jeff applied primer to the walls. It was so nice to see some uniformity to the room again!
I wanted to include a picture of our mudded ceiling, since our neighbor Brad did such a great job on it! I feel like making a commercial: "Drywall mud- $11, Drywall tape- $6, Mudding tools- $23... not having to nag your husband for weeks to get a job done that took a professional 3 days- PRICELESS!). Actually, the total cost of having the ceiling mudded was $80. SOOO worth it! I'm texturing it myself, and have the first coat on, so I'll have to post a pic of that soon. In the meantime, LEAVE ME A COMMENT! I'd love to know who's reading this :-)
3 comments:
I'm reading!!
Things are looking great, Elizabeth! Thanks for all the pics.
I had to laugh when I read your comment about your hair. I had just looked at the pic and thought 'her hair looks really cute that way!' :)
I'm reading too. I love watching homes get fixed up. I actually had that same thought too about your hair before I even read your comment about it-very cute!!
-Beckie
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