Pearls & Lace

I spent the day in the bathroom.  First, I primed the walls.  While that was drying, I put some joint compound in the living room along, shockingly enough, a joint.  After lunch, paint!  Rollering the paint (Pearls & Lace is the color) on is so much fun!  I love the way the room looks now.  It's so much lighter than before.  Next weekend, we'll install the beautiful floor and put the fixtures back in.

Dad did a variety of things today.  First, he put all the random boards and appliances away so the yard area looks neat for when the inspection gets scheduled.  He also took down the ceiling trim from the whole house. After I was done painting, we both did some texturing of the living room.

Our texturing method (for those of you who may be interested):  Mix up compound, a little runnier than usual. Glop it onto the texture trowel.  Fewer, smaller globs for daintier texture.  Then smoosh it up to the wall, totally flat.  Smoosh 2-3 times.  Repeat.  Once there is a fairly large area of globs on the wall, use the trowel to flatten the globs and smooth everything out.  At this point, each glob will be just slightly above the rest of the wall.  Then, let it dry, sand it the next day, and it's ready for painting.  It's great for hiding any imperfections that there may be in the wall - which there are plenty of in this old, abused house.

Mom spent the day washing more of the ceiling.  It's slow going but looking good.