Drywall is the Devil

Continued from before, the biggest project we had to tackle over the holidays was the drywall in the computer room. At right you can see Dusty removing the remaining portion of the ceiling. When we bought the house, there was a significant portion on the eastside of this room that had the drywall sinking/falling down. From the look of it, they must have jigsawed together the ceiling using weird-shaped left-over drywall from the walls. Not being achored correctly it was no surprise that the ceiling was falling.

So, we tore down the section that looked least stable and figured we could just get it hammered out in a weekend. This probably would have been an easier task if we knew what we were doing, but oh well. Aside from covering the whole house with a fine layer of drywall dust, we found this horrible mummified mouse in the ceiling (bleck!). After what seemed like forever, we finally got the ceiling peices drilled in, mudded, sanded and textured. What a massive pain in the ass: I can't imagine doing this for a job!

Well, I figured since we had the whole room tore apart for the ceiling, I might as well just paint the walls since I'd been chomping at the bit to do something about them since we moved in. As you can see: who ever lived here prior thought that this fleshy-peach color would be the most inviting color for people when the entered the home.

I went with a nice demin blue color for the room: figured it would work well with the browns in the kitchen and be a nice soothing color for the computer room. As you can see in the photo (Dusty at his desk working on some elctronics), it looks pretty nice! Another idea we had was to take the once peach-colored door (yes, they decided to paint the door the same color as the walls) and cover it in chalkboard paint. We LOVE chalkboards (I think we have 3 in the house) so it will be another great place to put notes and doodles.

I like how you can't even tell in this picture that we had to repair the ceiling! The texture is a bit different if you look, but the room finally looks pretty good! Next step in here is going to be to pull up the gross carpet and hopefully put down some tile: being the high-traffice zone between the entry-way and garage, I think tile might be the smartest choice. Stay tuned for more updates - I've got lots more tooms to paint and make-over ; )