In Living Color

After the drywall is all hung, the hard work begins. Mud, tape, sand, mud, sand, mud, sand into the abyss. I am not the best at this part of the process and I'll spare you the details of my flawed mud jobs. It's pretty bad. Plus here we have a situation where the thickness of the drywall was not always the same as the thickness of the plaster and they had to join up sometimes. The corners between the wall and the ceiling had huge gaps that had to be filled in with dope and taped up. It was all a mess.

So much mud!

joining the drywall (right) to the plaster (left) is a nightmare

Mud is not my friend

All that dust!! Kelley is cleaning up back there

That green on the left is plaster

All cleaned up and primer is on!

Next up we added paint. Once we thought there was enough dope and sanding done we put on a coat of primer, then had to debate about the color. In the end, we settled on a light blueish purple. Our youngest kid was quite distraught that we didn't choose her shade of pink, but a pink kitchen? no. come on, child. no.

I'm still jazzed about the electrical here

An eggshell finish hides all flaws

my kid is goofy

Having a finished color on there is the first time we're getting to a real finishing step. There is still a ton left to do here, but it's all finish work. Well, almost all. There is still one pretty serious piece of construction that we have to take care of.