Drywall Sucks

And I'm not very good at it. I can usually find a decent way to hang sheetrock on the wall, but mudding, taping, and sanding is so frustrating. I did it, but it did not turn out very smooth.

Setup: now we've got all of the plaster down, insulation is up in the exterior walls, the interior kitchen wall is opened up into a new header and the flooring has been repaired in the fridge nook.

Cover the exterior walls

New electrical and plumbing for the new refrigerator location

Still has the old fridge in there

Who hates hanging drywall?

This guy

going back to the kitchen

Hallway walls are all covered up

I still have to deal with these new cabinets too. That last pic shows where we had an electrician come in and hang a light bulb on the left, and move the outlet & switch (for that bulb) down to the middle of the wall. I need to get the cabinet walls & face frames built before I can hang drywall there.

melamine going in!

Got a couple of boxes and face frames covering the melamine edges

Drywall, and I got the right side box & face frame in place

Replaced the bulb with a recessed light and added the drywall top & right

That recessed light makes all the difference. Also might notice 2 refrigerators

The new Fridge Nook!

Those cabinets took 2 sheets of 3/4" melamine from Lowe's at $31 each plus some scrap 1x3 for the face frames that I had lying around. They are just boxes right now. The left cabinet on the left side is getting a door, it's only 13" deep. The right cabinet on the left is 26" deep, so it's getting a pull out drawer behind the door to make more stuff available. The right cabinet is a full 38" deep, so it is also getting a pull out drawer box. I cut the doors out of 1/2" plywood but haven't painted or installed them yet. Still have to make the boxes.

Added the butcher block and finished wrapping the header

I love the way the header & recessed light are the same height

From the hallway side

the back wall

Looking through the hallway

The butcher block cabinet

I built this butcher block cabinet back in 2001. Kelley worked at a furniture store that got the top & the drawer in for a damaged piece of furniture. The vendor sent replacements and told the store to give away two of the damaged pieces. So I got one and built this cabinet and our friends got the other one and just put legs on there. It's on caster wheels, and we've never had a kitchen that could hold this cabinet. Even 17 years later it's still one of my favorite pieces of furniture that I've ever built, and now quite handy in the kitchen! Kelley loves having it as extra counter space.

So now that the drywall is all hung, it's time for the dusty, filthy, suck-ass chore of putting on joint compound, taping the seams flat, putting on more dope, then sanding most of it off.