On to the living room!

Well, I blanked on getting complete photos on the floors in the three rooms, now they are covered with contractor paper. Oh well. We've completed the floors in the office and the two bedrooms. We did four coats of waterlox, waiting one day in between for cure time, and few days after the final coat to walk on. We moved all the furniture from the living room into the second bedroom.

The living room in it's natural state.


Our new living room, the second bedroom!


The dreaded popcorn/textured ceiling!


The room all prepped and ready to go for removal!


Mother&#$^#%, there's drywall under the popcorn/textured ceiling! And guess what, the only way to remove it is to take off the backing paper. This ain't good.


After hours of removal, and taking off the backing paper+ texture to get a level surface, this is the final product of the ceiling drywall with the gypsum face exposed. I did some excavation underneath and found that they had installed this drywall over plaster and lathe. Doh! After much deliberation and consultation with experts, I decided to hang another layer of 1/2" drywall over this, rather than skim coat or remove the old drywall and plaster and lathe.


Luckily, my good buddy Jason was able to lend a helping hand hanging some of the sheetrock. Definitely a bit challenging on the ceiling. When I was up in the attic, I found a box of books from the late 1800's and the name of the original owner of the house, which was pretty cool. I also put a crack in the plaster and lathe ceiling in the entryway, which Sarah so keenly observed. Oops!