Last night my friends N. and L. came over and worked with me for several hours wallpapering the ceiling. Now, I want you to understand that it is paintable, textured wallpaper similar to what's in this link. This is not a pattern or a faux finish, and it covers the drywall in the ceiling where we took off clumps of the paper finish by chipping away two-inch diameter globs of glue that had been used to attach acoustic tiles. Below: a picture of the ceiling half-way through the chipping process. The dark globs are glue. The lighter patches are either dents in the ceiling where the glue was or tile-backing still stuck to the glue. David painted the ceiling before we papered. I'll be sure to take a good picture for the "after" image today.
The girls' room is painted, the rest of the upstairs is primed, for the most part. We've completed demolition downstairs and have replaced the drywall on the worst wall in the kitchen; we also added insulation, since it was an outside wall. Apparently when the old part of the house was built, insulation wasn't used. Hmmm... We may blow insulation into the dining room wall also. Below: about a quarter of the pile after the guys ripped out our cabinets. They had a lot of fun and there was a great deal of bashing and man-muscle strutting during the process. You will see why we ended up having to drywall that particular wall. Yes, those are all seperate pieces of drywall and plywood with holes and gaps.
We will hopefully finish putting the beadboard around the kitchen and installing the new cabinets (or at least positioning them in my empty kitchen) this weekend. We'll also pick up the floors, which should be at Lumber Liquidators by now--we hope--so they can spend a couple days adjusting to the temperature of the house before installation. Below: newspaper we found glued to the walls under the wallpaper.
Once the floor is in the kitchen and dining room, we'll be ok. The living room and library can happen after we're in, as can the basement laundry and everything we don't get done before we move. We don't really have a choice about moving.
I just realized that we're moving next weekend. The only thing packed here is the books! How I'm going to both pack this house AND work on the new house is beyond me. Help! Oh, yeah, and cook, and ... well, David has kindly let me skip trying to homeschool the kids till this move is done. We may do school during the summer, but I can't handle the school and everything else.
