Finishing drywall...

Of all the steps in this process, mudding drywall was one of the highest bids. When compared to the rest of the project and budget numbers it was a quick decision to do it ourselves. This project is not particularly difficult, in fact we've had five people without experience help with the first coat. It is, however, a time consuming job, at least if you want it to look nice! This is a finishing detail that will be seen...forever...until such a time as the walls are completely re-drywalled, etc...

Ben and I have lost count of the hours we've spent and the number of buckets of mud we have gone through! To date, we are about half way through the process, but have broken it up to work with drying times, so we have already textured and begun painting the kids' wing. We hope to be done with paint by Easter!

Below: Two of my sis-in-laws helping with mudding and cleanup.

Above: Ed helped us out a couple days, too.
Below: My pantry and office area in the kitchen.

Two views of the girls' room. Above is Little Miss's side and below is R's.

Coordinating details has been a part-time job! What supplies are needed for which project on what day. But wait, it's suppose to be cold that day, so maybe we should do this instead which requires this list of supplies. Of course, then I have to have that cleaned and ready, which I don't yet. Did I get that moved to the right vehicle? Which bag was that in? What store did we get that at? Are you sure we DID get that already?

Hehe...what on earth will we do when we don't have the house site occupying our time, thoughts and conversations? Oh, how I look forward to finding out!