Massive Work Accomplished--Master Bath Update, VIII

When the drywall was officially declared "DONE" by Dave, we started the taping off process to texture the walls and paint. Sunday, after church at Faith Fellowship in La Palma (Dad's first official day), we started!

As Dave learned in other rooms, texturing without protecting the ceiling and floor is a bad idea. After using a $2.15 roll of paper to protect our hard work, we had to figure out how to block off the part between the addition and bedroom.

Reese wanted to be our constant compainion, but kept getting in the way. She didn't really like the top of the ladder though.

Dave mixed the texture to the right consistancy (pancake batter according to Dave).

Reese just wanted to sleep in my hands (notice the drowsy look on her face) and she didn't really like the fact that I wasn't sitting. I needed one of those baby biorn things to carry her around in.

With the help of the air compressor and Dave's Harbor Freight texture gun, the texture in the addition was done in less than 20 minutes.

Our house has all plaster ceilings and because we're cheap (plastering is beyond Dave's expertise and hiring someone to do it is REALLY extensive), we were not able to have a "plaster" ceiling in the addition. We have drywall, smooth drywall. The problem lies in Dave's need for perfection--plaster and drywall will not match naturally, this began our need to texture to ceiling so thinly that it didn't look textured, yet match 71 years of paint (paint rolling bumps). After 30 minutes of messing with the mud and practicing on scrap pieces of wood and drywall, it took Dave 10 minutes to texture the ceiling.

Sunday night we worked until 12:05 am and crashed into bed. Monday morning started about 8:45 am. I bribed Dave that we would go to Denny's for breakfast after we finished the texturing in the bedroom.

While I was a bit more tired Monday, Reese was ready for some serious attention!

This handy set up was used to keep the texture in the room where it belongs instead of all over the place--it was the originally part of the drywall hanging experience. With the door and windows tapped off, this texture experience took 20 minutes and the ceiling added another 5! By 11:30, we headed off to eat. Farmer Boys was calling our name (since it was no longer breakfast time) and Home Depot couldn't be avoided. Harbor Freight got our attention for a paint sprayer (pink closet will be white soon) and Baker's provided a well-deserved Oreo milkshake.

While eating, we created a shopping list and a plan for the afternoon. Our entire trip lasted about an hour and a half and we were home to work. Melissa helped me empty DAVE's closet onto the couch and in the livingroom (yes, blog readers, those are all DAVE's clothes).

She then volunteered to help sand the closet--decked out and ready to go, she got busy.

5 minutes later, she was tired, but kept going and going...

20 minutes later she was done and dirty!

While Melissa sanded, Dave and I cleaned up all the dust (seriously, dust go away!!) and began painting. We have a green tinted primer that will help dramatically when we paint the green wall color onto the wall. We used almost three gallons of primer because the new drywall and texture suck up the paint pretty dramatically.

I cut in the corners and ceiling while Dave rolled the high parts.

Before I realized that this was going to be an ALL day task, I had told Dave that we'd get to go out to a nice dinner and maybe even a movie when we were finished. With no end in sight, Dave started reminding me about my "promise."

After a short break, Melissa came back in a new outfit meant for nursing or painting. She had heard the "promise" as well and wanted to go to eat. At this point, Dave began priming the ceiling white and Melissa and I took over the green wall priming. We painted the rest of the room together.

(This color is only the primer--the "real" color hasn't been put on the wall yet)