Ceiling Feelings

I promised you yesterday an update on the Family Room, so here it is.  First, a look at where we were.

The fireplace with the sad mantel and no surround.  

And a very sad, rotted three panel door.

The crown molding is interesting.
We found out it was covering up drywall issues between the ceiling and the wall.

And the other end of the room.  

Now, not much has gone on in this room so far.   It was kind of on the back burner until we got most of the rest of the house done.  We did replace the three panel door with a nice big slider back in the fall.

But other than that, not much has gone one.  A little bit of drywall work where we move the two doorways around a little bit (to give us a little more useable wall space) and to close up the hole where we put the new door in.

We've also taken down the "mantel" and cleaned up the drywall around the fireplace--after we got it cleaned and inspected to make sure it wouldn't burn down the house if we used it.

But the biggest remaining issue is the ceiling.  It has some old damage from where they once had faux beams and then took them down.  Like everything else in the house that was fixed, it looks awful.  It's hard to see in pictures, but it has to get fixed.

The other issue is that the rest of the ceiling is pillowed a little bit, which is noticeable if you get it under the right light.  The guys have decided that the best thing to do is to just cover it up with more drywall, but that is going to require "furring" it down a few inches, and then hanging new drywall over the whole ceiling.  It's vaulted to 12 ft, so that will be a job.  We might need a few extra hands.  But it's the easiest way to fix all the major issues going on with the ceiling.  Every ceiling in this house has been an issue, but this one might be the worst.