The Sky is Falling.....

Last weekend was a busy one at the house.  I worked on finishing up some painting in the three guest bedroom closets so that they were ready for floors.  Mostly it was painting ceilings and touching up walls.  Not too exciting.  I also worked on getting the guest bathroom cabinets painted and ready to install.  Again, not too exciting.

This is what they looked like before I started.

Doors and drawer fronts primed but not painted.

The sink cabinet

And two drawer towers.

All done.

The cabinets, fronts, and drawers are all painted now, and ready to go into the bathroom.  And, if you're wondering, the color is SW Alpaca.  It's a nice, light gray.  I was going to do white, but the countertop we found (on clearance!) is white and I didn't want to have to worry about matching that white, so I went with gray.  It looks nice with the floors and pulls some color from the glass accent tile in the shower.  Hopefully it will look nice when it's all done.

Speaking of the bathroom, we got the walls in there sanded, primed, and painted over the weekend as well.

I know it's really hard to tell from this photo, since I had to use the flash because it was dark outside by this time, but it's a very nice green.  And, those of you who know about such things might recognize it.    It's SW Filmy Green!!!  I was going to go with a slightly darker shade, but it was just too dark for such a small room.  The filmy green, however, works great.  The only problem is that when I pulled the tape off, some of the paint came with it, so there will be some touch ups coming.

Now, while I was doing all that, you might be asking what the guys were doing?  Well, once we got the main living area opened up, we noticed an issue with the ceiling.  It was wavy.   I kind of looked like the waves at the beach.  And because the droops were in between the ceiling joists, there wasn't much we could do about it.  Basically, our choices were (1) live with it, (2) put new drywall up over top of it, or (3) take it all down and redo it.  We chose option (3).

When I was helping out with the baffles on the exterior, we discovered that I am highly allergic to insulation ( like I break out in hives and get super, super itchy) so it was decided that I would stay away while the boys were pulling down the ceiling and clean up the mess.

The first step was a trip to home depot to get the drywall the replace the old saggy stuff.  The truck almost didn't make it.

Then it was time to drop the ceiling.  I was told this part took all of 15 minutes.

Before shot....you can kind of see the waves here.

And after.  Such a mess.

They we got to spend the rest of the weekend putting it all back up.  At least it made cleaning up the electrical and putting in the light boxes easy.  

All clean again.

Needless to say, it took much longer to put it back up than it did to take it down.  

Working on getting it all back up.

Now that's done, we're working hard to get the back half of the house ready for floors.  The three guest rooms are ready, but we still need to paint in the master bedroom.  It had a similar wavy ceiling, but we didn't drop that one, instead we were able to add some screws and fix most of it.  The mud in there is nearly done, so that ceiling is nearly ready for paint.  And then the walls can get painted.  The hallway also need some paint on the walls and ceiling (after some patching) and then we can start with the floors!