Job #1 Dry wall and Ceiling

So, first things first, Mike was determined to scrape all of the popcorn, (not infested with asbestos) off of the ceiling. I thought we could live with it and not incur an unnecessary expense that was so cosmetic, but it has really made a huge difference. We scraped the popcorn ourselves to save on a portion of the expense. We thought it was going to be a hard job, but it turned out to be a lot easier than we thought. The company http://woodinvilledrywall.com/ we chose was a huge blessing. Kim was great to work with and he let us borrow many of his tools to get our part of the job done so he could get his part done.

I was amazed at how dark and dirty the popcorn was and how fresh and clean a newly textured ceiling was.

These two pictures show where there used to be a wall separating the kitchen from the rest of the living space. We decided to get rid of the remnants and make it all one smooth transition.Here is the lovely laundry room without a ceiling and a sliding door that has a hole in it on the other side.Now it has a ceiling! Yeah! Good bye spiders and other creatures with more than 2 legs!Here Mike and Heath are framing a new door to our laundry room...and filling in a door space that made no sense going into the laundry room. It opened right smack into the water heater with barely enough room to get by.Some of the additional repairs, holes in the walls etc...this space is under the stairs. The previous owners dog spent some time in here..chewing and clawing..it's all gonna go. ;)

It's pretty exciting to see the changes and updates...can't wait till it's all ready to move in!