That's how I like my popcorn, and the only place I want to see it is at the movie theater. This house, however, has more popcorn than I can (almost) handle! If you refer back to our hallway re-do when I removed the popcorn from the ceiling in two hallways, you'll know where I'm heading here.
The next part of the project was doing the guest room ceiling! You'll notice, I'm working my way up to doing the largest areas of ceiling slowly. This is something you really have to want to do. This picture is a close up of how attractive this treatment is. The second picture is of the hallway - while I was in the process of scraping it. I didn't stop to take pictures of the guest room ceiling while I was in the process. With a little starter help from our friend, Laurie (who had spent the night and helped me move furniture the next morning - as well as got started on the scraping while I patched the living room wall), I was able to get the ceiling in the entire room scraped in one day! That's a lot of humming to ones self! Once again, once the ceiling was completely scraped I was able to pull out the bucket of drywall mud and fill in any gouges, scrapes, dents, etc. I let that dry for a couple of days before I then went back up on the ladder to sand the entire ceiling.
Yesterday I primed and painted the ceiling...all the while uttering "oooh! aaah!" The difference is so dramatic that it justifies the work! There is still wall painting to be done - as you can see from the picture (working on getting the perfect color of pale blue -not quite there yet). Once the walls are done then we can move on to that floor! I'm not expecting to get this done in the next few days, but will be glad if I can finish up in here in January (holidays and work schedules get in the way some times).
I have every hope that the guest room will turn out as nicely as the hallway did! It's fun getting back into projects again....but all of this talk about popcorn has made me hungry. Time to pop up a bag!
1 comment:
Very nice job! I have the same reaction to textured drywall. It is one thing to be creative with color, you can easily change it. But with texture, you have to live with it forever or at least I thought. I didn't realize you could scrape it off. Learned something. Alas, our house has textured paint throughout and I will have to live with it. Best of luck on the rest of your project.
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